Hamilton's account of the east inbies.

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but called at Calecut in his way home again, and laid up his iliip there, and took pro-tection of a Nayer, with the full hand of u,oool. fterling of Bengal money, andwrote to Mr. Sheldon, that he might keep his former bond, and he would take careof his part of the flock in his hands. He alfo wrote to me, that he would take parti-cular care to reimburfe me; but, in a fhort time after, he died, and his effects cameinto the Englifh chief’s hands, who detained them fcveral years, denying that ever hehad any, till governor Boone came to the government of Bombay in 1715, and thenhe made a lame account. I have been fo prolix and particular in this ftory, that itmay form an idea of the deformity and difmal image of tyranny and villainy fupportedby a power, that neither divine nor human laws have force enough to bridle orreftrain.

The Company’s colony is limited by a land-mark at Governapore, and another nearBarnagul, about fix miles diftant; and the falt-water lake bounds it on the land fide.It may contain, in all, about 10 or 12,000 fouls; and the Company’s revenuesare pretty good, and well paid. They rife from ground-rents and confulage on allgoods imported and exported by Britifh fubjects; but all nations befides are freefrom taxes.

Chap. XXXIV. — Is a Continuation of the Dcfcription of Bengal ..

BARNAGUL is the next village on the river’s fide, above Calcutta , where theDutch have an houfe and garden ; and the town is famoufly infamous for a feminaryof female lewdnefs, where numbers of girls are trained up for the deflruclion of un-wary youths, who fludy more how to gratify their brutal paffions, than how to fhunthe evil confequences that attend their folly, notwithflanding the daily inflances ofrottennefs and mortality that happen to thofe who molt frequent thole fchools ofdebauchery. The Dutch fhipping anchors there fometimes, to take in their cargoesfor Batavia. And thofe are all that are remarkable at Barnagul or Barnagur.

There are feveral other villages on the river’s fides, in the way to Hughly, whichlies 20 miles above Barnagul, but none remarkable, till we come to the Danes fac-tory, which Hands about four miles below Hughly; but the poverty of the Daneshas made them defert it, after having robbed the Mogul’s fubje&s of fome of theirfhippmg, to keep themfelves from ftarving.

Almoft oppofite to the Danes factory is Bankebankfal, a place where the Oft endCompany fettled a fa&ory ; but, in anno 1723, they quarrelled with the Fouzdaar orgovernor of Hughly, and he forced the Offenders to_quit their fa&ory, and feek pro-tection from the French at Charnagur, where their factory is, but, for want ofmoney are not in a capacity to trade. They have a few private families dwelling nearthe fa ftory, and a pretty little church to hear mafs in, which is the chief bufinefs ofthe French in Bengal .

About half a league farther up is the Chinchura, where the Dutch emporiumHands. It is a large fa&ory, walled high with brick. And the fa&ors have a greatmany good houfes Handing pleafantly on the river’s fide; and ad of them have pretty,gardens to their houfes. The Chinchura is wholly under the Dutch Company’sgovernment. It is about a mile long, and about the fame breadth, well inhabited byArmenians and the natives. It is contiguous to Hughly, and affords fan&uary for

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