ABSTRACT
The Bengalees are merchants with large fortunes, men who sail in junks. A large number of Parsees, Rumes, Turks and Arabs, and merchants from Chaul, Dabhol and Goa, live in Bengal. The land is very productive of many foodstuffs: meat, fish, wheat, and cheap. They have now been following the Pase practice in Bengal for seventy-four years, that whoever kills the king becomes king. They hold and believe that no one can kill the king without the consent of God, and he therefore becomes king; and in this way the kings last a very short time. The king of Bengal is powerful. He has many mounted men. There must be a hundred thousand mounted men in his kingdom. The principal port is that of the City of Bengal, whence the kingdom derives its name. It takes two days to go from mouth of the river up to city, and they say that at the lowest tide there are three fathoms.
