Page:Indian Journal of Economics Volume 2.djvu/171

 PETER MUNDY travelling on the right road, whe. ther progress and whether we can yet glimpse ot the goal at which we the total prevention of famine. A perusal Mundy leaves that we have gives us every greasing on the of the account us wih good advanced so far ground for feeling right lines and catch a are aiming we have made distant namely recorded cause for since his that we that if we by Mr. Peter satisfaction time and are pro- continue on onr present course without slackening our efforts we shall some day arrive at the much o be desired goal. We are indebted to the Hakluyt Society for edit- ing and printing the travels bf Mr. Peter Mnndy who served in India from September Febru- ary 1633 as a fact, or of the East Company. During this period Mundy travelled Surat to Agra via Burhanpur, from Agra to the Ganges, from Agra to Patna and back and then again from Agra va Aimere and Ahmadabad to Surat. The first mention of the famine in his journal is given n the following words: "About the tyme of our departure for Agra began a famine, the rayne this last secondary sesson, 1628 to India from through Aligarh cawse thereof the want of and 'much feared will prove very greivous, poore people begininge to die for want of sustenance. God shewe mercie on all men". We cull the following remarks about the famine from the same jollrnal. Relation VI A journey from allraft Agra in Hindostan, whether Yard were enordered and in Guzaratt (Onjarat) to Peter Mllndy nd John sent by the worshipfull Thomas Rastell, President Ett, s. Cormcell, to assist fr. William Fremlen there resideinge in the honour- able companies affaires, as fol10weth.