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A71305	Purchas his pilgrimes. part 3 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.	1625 (1625)	STC 20509_pt3; ESTC S111862	2,393,864	1,207

in circuit and of old encompassed three thousand and sixe hundred miles as is seene in the Maps of the Mariners of those parts but the North winds haue made a great part of it Sea It is the best Iland of the World The King is named Sendernaz The men and women are Idolaters goe naked saue that they couer their priuities with a cloth haue no Corne but Rice and Oyle of Sesamino Milke Flesh Wine of trees abundance of Brasill the best Rubies in the World Saphires Topazes Amathists and other Gems The King is said to haue the best Rubie in the World one palme long and as big as a mans arme without spot shining like a fire not to be bought for money Cublai Can sent and offered the value of a Citie for it but the King answered he would not giue it for the treasure of the world nor part with it hauing beene his Ancestours The men are vnfit for warres and hire others when they haue occasion §. X. Of the firme Land of the Greater India FRom Zeilan sayling sixtie miles to the West is the great Prouince of Malabar which is not an Iland but firme Continent called India the greater the richest Prouince in the World There are in it foure Kings the chiefe of which is Senderbandi in whose Kingdome they fish for Pearles to wit betwixt Malabar and Zeilan in a Bay where the Sea is not aboue ten or twelue fathome in which diuers descend and in bags or nets tyed to their bodies bring vp the Oysters in which they are And because there are great fishes which kill the Fishermen they hire certaine Bramines to charme them being skilfull to charme all sorts of beasts also and birds and these haue the twentieth the King the tenth These Oysters are found all Aprill and till the midst of May and not else in September they finde them in a place aboue three hundred miles off and till the midst of October The King goeth as naked as the rest saue that he weareth some honorable Ensignes as a Coller of precious stones about his necke and a threed of Silke to his breast with one hundred and foure faire Pearles as Beads to number his Prayers of which he must daily say so many to his Idols like Bracelets he weareth on three places of his armes and likewise on his legs and on his fingers also and toes The prayers which he sayth are Pacauca pacauca pacauca one hundred and foure times This King hath one thousand women and if any please his sense he takes her as one he did from his brother whence warres had followed but the mother threatning to cut off her breasts which had nourished them if they proceeded stayed the broyle He hath many Horsemen for his Guard which alway accompanie him who when the King dies throw themselues voluntarily into the fire wherein he is burned to doe him seruice in the next World This and his brethren the Kings of Malabar buy their Horses from Ormus and other parts The Countrey breeds none and if it happens sometimes yet are they there bred ill-fauoured and naught Condemned persons will offer themselues to die in honour of such an Idoll which is performed with twelue Kniues and twelue wounds in diuers parts of the bodie at euery blow saying I kill my selfe in honour of that Idol and the last he thrusts in his heart and then is burned by his kindred The wiues also cast themselues into the fire with their husbands they being disreputed which refuse it They worship Idols and most of them Beeues and would not eat of so holy flesh as Beefe for all the World There are some called Gaui which eate those Beeues which dye alone may not kill them and dawbe ouer their houses with Oxe dung These Gaui are of the Posteritie of those which slue Saint Thomas and cannot enter the place where his bodie is if ten men should carrie them They sit on Carpets on the ground in this Kingdome they haue no Corne but Rice are no Warriours kill no beasts but when they will eat any get the Saracens to doe it or other people wash twice a day morning and euening both men and women and will not otherwise eate which they which obserue not are accounted Heretikes They touch not their meat with the left hand but vse that hand only to wipe and other vncleane offices They drinke each in his owne pot and will not touch another mans pot nor suffer their owne to touch their mouth but hold it ouer and powre it in To strangers which haue no pot they powre drinke into his hands to drinke with them Iustice is seuerely executed for Crimes and Creditors may encompasse their Debtors with a Circle which he dares not passe till hee hath paid or giuen securitie if he doth he is to be put to death and M. Marco once saw the King himselfe on Horse-backe thus encircled by a Merchant whom he had long delayed and frustrated neither would the King goe out of the Circle which the Merchant had drawne till he had satisfied him the people applauding the Kings Iustice. They are very scrupulous in drinking Wine of the Grape and they which doe it are not admitted to be Witnesse a thing denyed also to him which sayles by Sea for they say such men are desperate They thinke Leachery no sinne It is very hote and they haue no raine but in Iune Iuly and August without which refreshing of the Ayre they could not liue They haue many Physiognomers and Sooth-sayers which obserue beasts and Birds and haue an vnluckie houre euery day of the weeke called Choiach as on Munday betwixt two and three on Tuesday the third houre on Wednesday the ninth c. thorow all the yeare set downe in their Bookes They curiously obserue Natiuities at thirteene yeares old they put the Boyes to get their owne liuings which runne vp and down to buy and sell hauing a little stocke giuen them to begin and in Pearle-season they buy a few Pearles and sell them againe to the Merchants which cannot well endure the Sunne for little gaine What they get they bring to their Mothers to dresse for them but may not eate at their Fathers cost They haue Idols Males and Females to which they offer their Daughters which when the Monkes or Priests appoint sing and dance to cheere the Idols and diuers times set victuals before them saying that they eat leauing it the space of a meale singing the while and then they fall to eating in deed after which they returne home The cause of these solaces is the household quarrels betwixt the God and his Goddesse which if they should not thus appease they should lose their blessing The great men haue Litters of large Canes which they can fasten artificially to some vpper place to preuent Tarantulas byting and Fleas and other Vermine and for fresh Aire The place of Saint Thomas his Sepulchre is a small

dead are and there it consumes with time Their mourning which they vse is the sharpest that euer I saw for they weare Coats after the common sort of verie course wooll next the flesh and girt with great coards and on their head a Cappe of the same cloath made like the Caps that are vsed in the Countrey sauing that these haue certaine flappes that fall ouer their eyes Notwithstanding that as they are nearest in kindred so they weare the rougher mourning weed The rest weare raw cloath and not so course For Father or Mother they mourne three yeeres and if he bee Louthia as soone as hee heareth the newes presently he leaueth the office he serueth and goeth to mourne to his owne house for three yeeres which being ended he goeth to the Court to demand his office The Women commonly excepting those of the Sea coast and the Mountayners are very white and fine women some hauing their noses and eyes well proportioned From their child-hood they wrap their feete in cloathes that they may remayne small and they doe it for the China's doe holde them for finer women that haue small Noses and Feete This is vsed yet among the noble people and not among the basest They weare their hayre very well combed close and tyed to the crowne of the head and bound from the rootes to the toppes with a long lace very well placed And the lace is garnished with Iewels and peeces of Gold round about They vse long Coats like the Portugall women which haue the waste in the same manner that they haue They weare vpper-bodies with long sleeues they spend commonly more Silke in their garments then their husbands but in their common apparell they are cloathed in white Linnen-cloath They make curtesies as our women doe but they make three together and very hastely They vse painting their faces with Vermilion and white Ceruse very well set They commonly keepe themselues close so that through all the Citie of Cantan there appeareth not a woman but some light huswiues and base women And when they goe abroad they are not seene for they goe in close Chayres whereof wee spake before neither when any bodie commeth into the house doth hee see them except for curiositie they chance vnder the doore-cloath to looke on them that come in when they are strange people Commonly the men haue one Wife which they buy for their money more or lesse according as they are of their Fathers and Mothers Yet may euery one haue as many wiues as hee is able to maintaine but one is the principall with whom they liue and the other he lodgeth in sundry houses And if hee hath dealings in diuers Countries hee hath in euery one a wife and house with entertainement If the wife committeth adulterie and the husband accuseth her and the adulterer both suffer death And if the husband doe suffer the wife to play the adulteresse hee is grieuously punished I being in Cantan saw a Marchant of China goe from Iustice to Iustice verie sharpely handled for suffering his wife to play the adulteresse The common women are in no wise permitted to dwell within the walls And in the Suburbes without they haue their proper streets where they dwell out of the which they may not liue All the common women are slaues they bring them vp for that purpose from their child-hood they buy them of their mothers and teach them to play on an Instrument of musique and to sing And those that can best doe this because they gaine most are worth more And those which cannot doe that are worth lesse The masters either carrie them vnto the men or sell them to them and when they are to beset in the street of the common women they are written by an Officer of the King in a Booke and the Master is bound to come euerie yeere with a certaine fee to this Officer they are bound to answer their Master so much euerie moneth When they are old with Paynting they make them seeme young And after they are not for that trade they are altogether free without any obligation either to Master or any bodie and then they feed vpon that which they haue gottten I spake so particularly of this matter for to come to say that in this Countrey of China is no greater captiuitie then this of these Wenches And let no man say or affirme any other thing for about the examining of it I laboured somewhat in Cantan because some Portugals would affirme it otherwise The captiuitie in this Countrey is in manner following If any woman by the death of her husband remayneth a widdow and hath nothing to maintayne her selfe with neither the children that are left her are such as are able to get their liuing neither hath shee any thing to giue her children this Woman in this necessitie commeth to a rich man and agreeth with him for six or seuen Crownes for a Sonne or a Daughter and the price receiued shee deliuereth it if it be a Daughter shee serueth as abouesaid for a common Woman and is brought vp for that purpose if it be a Sonne hee serueth his Master some time And when hee is of age to marrie the Master giueth him a Wife and all the Children that are borne to him remayne free and without any Obligation notwithstanding this Seruant is bound to giue his Master so much by the yeere hauing a house by himselfe for when he marrieth they giue him a house and he laboureth either at some Trade or by his industrie for to earne his liuing And no man may sell any of these Slaues to the Portugals hauing great penalties for it The Women as by being common they looke for great profit of them in no wise they will sell them besides the running into great penalties also And all those which commonly are sold to the Portugals are stollen they carry them deceiued and secretly to the Portugals and so they sell them and if they were perceiued or taken in these stealths they would bee condemned in the vtmost punishment The Lawes of China giue authoritie to the Women for to sell their Children and not to the Men for as the Men are bound to get a liuing for himselfe and for his Children if hee want the remedie they hold that hee is in the fault of that And that Man may the better labour for their liuing and their Childrens So farre is China from hauing Slaues that altogether should bee captiues that neither those which they take in warre are slaues onely they are bound to the King and are placed for Souldiers in places farre from their Countries where they were taken eating of the wages they haue of the King These doe weare for a deuice a red cap as I saw the Tartarians weare in Cantan which had beene taken in the warres §. IIII. Of their Louthias Mandarines or Magistrates their creation priuiledges maintenance Of Prisons and Tortures of the King

of smoothnesse or barenesse although of diuers colours vpon the ridge of their backes they haue manie long prickes their teeth are very sharpe and especially their fangs or dogge teeth their throates are l●ng and large reaching from their beards to their brests of the like skinne to the residue of their bodies they are dumbe and haue no voice or make any noise or crie although they be kept tied to the foote of a chest or any other thing for the space of twentie or fiue and twentie daies without any thing to eate or drinke except they giue them now and then a little of the bread of Cazabi or some such other thing they haue foure feete and their fore-feete as long as a mans finger with clawes like the clawes of a bird but weaker and such as cannot grasple or take hold of any thing they are much better to be eaten then to behold for few that see them will haue desire to eate of them by reason of their horrible shape except such as haue beene accustomed to the beasts of these regions which are more horrible and fearefull as this is not but onely in apparence their flesh is of much better taste then the flesh of Connies and more holesome for it hurteth none but onely such as haue had the French poxe in so much that if they haue beene touched of that infirmitie although they haue beene whole of long time neuerthelesse they feele hurt and complaine of the eating of these Iuannas as hath beene oftentimes proued by experience There are found in the firme land certaine birds so little that the whole bodie of one of them is no bigger then the top of the biggest finger of a mans hand and yet is the bare body without the feathers not halfe so bigge This Bird beside her littlenesse is of such velositie and swiftnesse in flying that who so seeth her flying in the aire cannot see her slap or beate her wings after any other sort then doe the Dorres or humble Bees or Beetels so that there is no man that seeth her flye that would thinke her to be any other then a Do●re they make their nests according to the proportion of their bignesse and I haue seene that one of these Birds with her nest put in a paire of gold weights altogether hath waide no more then 2. Tomini which are in poise 24. graines with the feathers without the which she should haue waied some what lesse And doubtlesse when I consider the finenesse of the clawes and feete of these Birds I know not whereunto I may better liken them then to the little birds which the lymners of bookes are accustomed to paint on the margent of Church Bookes and other Bookes of Diuine Seruice Their Feathers are of manie faire colours as golden yellow and greene beside other variable colours their beake is verie long for the proportion of their bodies and as fine and subtile as a sowing needle they are verie hardy so that when they see a man clime the tree where they haue their nests they flye at his face and strike him in the eyes comming going and returning with such swiftnesse that no man would lightly beleeue it that hath not seene it and certainly these birds are so little that I durst not haue made mention hereof if it were not that diuers others which haue seene them as well as I can beare witnesse of my saying they make their nests of flocks and cotten whereof there is great plentie in these regions and serueth well for their purpose But as touching the Birds Foules and Beasts of these Indies because they are innumerable both little and great I intend not to speake much here because I haue spoken more largely hereof in my generall Historie of the Indies There is another kinde of Beasts seene in the firme Land which seemeth very strange and marueilous to the Christian men to behold and much differing from all other Beasts which haue beene seene in other parts of the world these Beasts are called Bardati and are foure footed hauing their taile and all the rest of their bodies couered onely with a skin like the coperture of a barbed horse or the checkered skin of a Lisart or Crocodile of colour betweene white and russet inclining somewhat more to white This Beast is of forme and shape much like to a barbed horse with his barbes and stankets in all points and from vnder that which is the barbe and coperture the taile commeth forth and the feete in their place the necke also and the eares in their parts and in fine all things in like sort as in a barbed courser they are of the bignesse of one of these common Dogges they are not hurtfull they are filthie and haue their habitation in certaine hillockes of the earth where digging with their feete they make their dens verie deepe and the holes thereof in like manner as doe Connies they are very excellent to be eaten and are taken with nets and some also killed with Crosbowes they are likewise taken oftentimes when the Husbandmen burne the stubble in sowing time or to renew the herbage for Kine and other Beasts I haue oftentimes eaten of their flesh which seemeth to me of better taste then Kiddes flesh and holesome to be eaten And if these Beasts had euer beene seene in these parts of the world where the first barbed Horses had their originall no man would iudge but that the forme and fashion of the coperture of Horses furnished for the warres was first deuised by the sight of these Beasts There is also in the firme Land another beast called Ors● 〈◊〉 that is the Ante-beare This beast in haire and colour is much like to the Bea●e of Spaine and in manner of the same making saue that he hath a much longer snoue and is of euill fight they are oftentimes taken only with staues without any other weapon and are not hurtfull they are also taken with Dogges because they are not naturally armed although they bite somewhat they are found for the most part about and neere to the hillockes where are great abundance of Antes For in these Regions is ingendred a certaine kind of Antes very little and blacke in the Fields and Plaines whereas grow no Trees where by the instinct of Nature these Antes separate themselues to ingender farre from the Woods for feare of these Beares the which because they are fearefull vile and vnarmed as I haue said they keepe euer in places full of Trees vntill very famine and necessitie or the great desire that they haue to feede on these Antes cause them to come out of the Woods to hunt for them these Antes make a hillocke of earth to the height of a man or somewhat more or lesse and as bigge as a great Chest and sometimes as bigge as a Bu● or a Hogshead and as hard as a stone so that they seeme as though they were stones set vp to limit the

distant from the greater Some iudged it to bee a Whale with her young one which others denyed saying a Whale had no armes To my iudgement each arme might be fiue and twentie foote long and as bigge as a Butt or Pipe the head fourteene or fifteene foote high and much more in breadth and the rest of the body larger That of her which appeared aboue water was aboue fiue times the height of a meane man which make fiue and twentie paces Lorenzo Martino Canon of the Church of Golden Castile Sancio di Tudela c. were with me and we were all afraid when shee came neere our small Caruell Shee seemed to disport her selfe at a tempest approching which suddenly arose much to our purpose from the West and brought vs in few dayes to Panama In Hispaniola and the neighbouring Ilands is a strange bird of prey as bigge as a great Gauia and much like it shee preyeth on the Land on birds c. and on fish in the Water shee is footed like water-fowles and goeth like a Goose but hath talons like Hawkes and fastens therewith on the fishes which shee eates so taken either in the Water or on the Rocks or as shee flyeth in the Aire holding it betweene her feete The Christians call them Astori di acqua What scath the Ants did in Hispaniola is before mentioned in the yeere 1519. and the next following and the Citie of Saint Domingo was almost dishabited by this great Armie of little creatures as in Spaine a Citie was dispeopled by Conies and which lately happened to the I le Porto Santo in Thessalia which almost fell out to the English Colonie in Bermuda to another Citie by Rats to the Atariotae by Frogges to the Mi●ntines by Fleas to Amicle in Italie by Serpents and to another part thereof by Sparrowes to diuers places of Africa often by Locusts so can the Great God arme the least creatures to the destruction of proud vainglorious men And this miserie so perplexed the Spaniards that they sought as strange a remedie as was the disease which was to chuse some Saint for their Patron against the Antes Alexander Giraldine the Bishop hauing sung a solemne and Pontificall Masse after the Consecration and Eleuation of the Sacrament and deuout Prayers made by him and the people opened a Booke in which was a Catalogue of the Saints by lot to chuse some he or she Saint whom God should please to appoint their Aduocate against that Calamitie And the Lot fell vpon Saint Saturnine whose Feast is on the nine and twentieth of Nouember after which the Ant-damage became more tolerable and by little and little diminished by Gods mercie and intercession of that Saint I note it the rather because the Bishop and that Saint were both Romanes and as that Martyr had made mute the Idols in Toledo as is written in the Historie of his Martyrdome so now was Idolatry and I pray what was this destroyed in Hispaniola Hee might haue said exchanged a pitifull case that when God hath s●nt his owne Sonne made of a woman made vnder the Law c. Who hath dyed for our yea that Martyrs sinnes risen for our Iustification ascended on high to giue gifts to men and is there and therefore set downe at Gods right hand to make intercession for vs sinners to take possession for vs mortals to accomplish as our Amen all the promises of this life and that which is to come whether against Ants or Deuils and in him it hath pleased the Father that all fulnesse should dwell yea beyond and it pleased in him dwelleth the fulnesse of the Godhead bodily and we are compleate in him and he is all in all yesterday to day the same for euer which hath loued vs and giuen himselfe for vs which is loue which hath inuited vs Come to me all ye that labour which hath incited vs by all attractiues that after all this men Christian men should goe cast Lots for an Intercessor and neglecting Christ dreame of Romane carnall phancies or runne mad with Romish superstitious phrensies wherein if the bodie be deliuered as happened to the lusting Israelites with their Quaile-store the burthen is made double to the soule when God heareth in his anger Such Cisternes doe they digge which forsake the Fountaine of liuing waters euen broken Cisternes which can hold no waters the best of Saints like the wise Virgins hauing no more Oile then will suffice their owne Lampes and that also receiued out of anothers fulnesse of whose fulnesse wee all haue receiued grace for grace said a principall Saint There are Caterpillers which shine in the night fiftie or a hundred paces off only from that part of the bodie whence the legges issue others only haue their head shining I haue seene some a spanne long very fearefull but for any thing I haue heard harmelesse Flies are lesse but more hurtfull then in Spaine but these in kindes and colours are so diuersified that it is impossible to write them and so may be said of other small creatures in those parts In his sixteenth Booke he declareth the Conquest of the I le Borichen or Saint Iohn and the quarrels betwixt the Spaniards the learning of some breeding such dissentions that not without cause saith our Author in Golden Castile and in other parts the King forbad Law-learned men and Proctors should passe thither as men infectious by sowing strife where they ought not In this I le the people and other things are as before is said of Hispaniola there are more Birds in Saint Iohn rich Mineralls of Gold certaine Battes which the people eate and Lignum Sanctum groweth there more excellent then the Guaiacan for the French Disease and others In his seuenteenth Booke he writeth of Cuba The people and other things are much like to Hispaniola In their Mariages all the guests of the Bridegroomes ranke as Caciques if hee bee a Cacique or Principall or Plebeians as he is lye with the Spouse before he himselfe may doe it after which she with her fist bent comes crying with a loud voyce Manicato Manicato that is forced and full of force as glorying in her shame They are in vices like those of Hispaniola and will be no better Christians then other Indians whatsoeuer Peter Martyr writeth from Encises Relations For I haue seene more Indians then they both and by experience of those Nations know that none or very few of them are Christians of their owne will and accord and when any are baptized being of age he doth it more for some by-purpose then for zeale of the faith for there remaines to him nothing but the name which also soone after he forgets Perhaps there are some faithfull but I beleeue they are very rare The Creatures and Plants of Spaine prosper well there as doe the naturall which are the same which are in Hispaniola The people were exhausted when they first went