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A18071	The preachers trauels Wherein is set downe a true iournall to the confines of the East Indies, through the great countreyes of Syria, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Media, Hircania and Parthia. With the authors returne by the way of Persia, Susiana, Assiria, Chaldæa, and Arabia. Containing a full suruew of the knigdom [sic] of Persia: and in what termes the Persian stands with the Great Turke at this day: also a true relation of Sir Anthonie Sherleys entertainment there: and the estate that his brother, M. Robert Sherley liued in after his departure for Christendome. With the description of a port in the Persian gulf, commodious for our East Indian merchants; and a briefe rehearsall of some grosse absudities [sic] in the Turkish Alcoran. Penned by I.C. sometimes student in Magdalen Colledge in Oxford.	Cartwright, John, of Magdalen College, Oxford.	1611 (1611)	STC 4705; ESTC S107677	77,355	114

mountaines and there builded And some obserue that this Countrey was first peopled after the flood for being high land it first appeared The Tradition of the Hebrewes is now in this place after the flood the men accompanying with their wiues euery woman brought forth at once a male and a female and so did their children for God and Nature neuer failed to the necessity which belonged to the wealth and increase of the vniuersall world no more then in this old age of the world in the time of the infinite multitude and increase of people wherein God doth miraculously keepe them as the Sea from ouerflowing the land that they doe not so abound as that one cannot liue by another The Turkes call the mountaine Gordaeus Augri-daugh the Armenians Messis-Saur it is so high that it ouer-tops all the mountaines thereabout There issueth out of the foote of this hill a thousand little springs whereof some doe feede the Riuer Tygris and some other Riuers and it hath about it three hundred villages inhabited by Armenians and Georgians as also an ancient Monastery dedicated to St. Gregory very large and spacious able to receiue Shaugh Tamas the great King of Persia and most of his army who for the austere and strict life that he saw in those religious men made him to spare it and to change his determination hauing a full purpose before to haue destroyed it About this Monastery groweth great plenty of graine the graine being twise as bigge as ours as also Roses and Rheubarb which because they haue not the skill to dry it that simple is of no esteeme or value The Arke of Noah rested on the toppe of the Gordaean Mountaines ON the top of this Mountaine did the Arke of Noah rest as both Iewes Turks and Armenians affirmed Berosus who registred the affaires and acts of the Chaldaeans setteth downe diuers things both concerning Noah and the resting of the Arke in this place Concerning Noah he writeth that the flood ceasing Noah with his family descending out of the Arke from Mount Gordaeus called by Manasseus Damascenus Baris and by other Araxis into the plaine adioyning full of dead karcasses which they call M●ry Adam that is of dead men wrote in a stone for a monument what was done The inhabitants to this day especially the Armenians doe call this place where Noah descended Aprobaterion that is descent or Egressorium Noe The going out of Noah Hee furder setteth downe how that the eldest of all father Noah did in the same place first teach his children Theologie and holy Writs and afterwards humane wisdome committing to writing many secrets of naturall things which the Armenians and Scythians did commit only to the Priests to whom only it was lawfull both to reade to teach and to looke into those writings rites and ceremonies left by Noah And as for the resting of the Arke he setteth downe diuers occurrences of the flood on this manner Some saith he affirme that a certaine part of the Arke is yet in Armenia neere to the mountaine of the Gordaeans and that some men haue brought from thence some part of the pitch wherewith it was calked which the people of that place were wont to vse as a soueraigne preseruatiue against inchantments So Hierome the Aegyptian who wrote the Antiquities of the Phoenitians doe make mention of the same matter and also Nanesius with diuers others Nicholas Damascene speaketh thus aboue the region of the Minaeans there is a great mountaine in Armenia called Baris in which mountaine it is reported that diuers people retired themselues for safety during the time of the deluge and there escaped and that a certaine man meaning Noah arriued in an Arke on the highest toppe of the said mountaine and that certaine plankes and timbers of the bottome of that Vessell was kept there a long while after To verifie which some Friers of St. Gregories Monastery told vs that euen at this day some part of the Arke is yet to bee seene on the toppe of this mountaine if ●ny could ascend thither but the way as they say is kept by Angels so that whosoeuer shall presume to goe vp as once a Brother of that Monastery did shall be brought downe in the night season from the place which hee had gained by his trauaile in the day time before But to leaue this fable to the first inuentor it sufficeth vs that here amongst these mountaines the Arke rested since the Scriptures tell vs that none were saued but Noah and his Wife with his three Sonnes and their three Wiues euen eight persons in the whole in the Arke and that the said Arke after the waters had preuailed vpon the earth an hundred and fifty dayes rested in the seauenth Moneth in the seauenteenth day of the Moneth vpon the Mountaines of Arraret which is expounded by all Writers to be in Armenia From the foote of this mountaine w●e spent a dayes iourney farther towards Chiulfall which day wee trauelled through very many narrow lanes in those mountaines and very deepe vallies wherein the Riuer Araxis with most outragious turnings and windings and his many rushing downefals amongst the Rocks doth euen bedease a mans eares and with his most violent roaming in and out doth drowne and ouerwhelme whosoeuer by miserable chance falleth downe head-long from the toppe of those narrow passages which are vpon the mountaines And vpon the crests of the said mountaines on the side of the said narrow passages there growe most hideous Woods and antique Forrests full of Beeches Trees like Poplers carrying mast fit for Hogges and Pine-trees where the horrour of darkenesse and silence which is oftentimes interrupted only by the whistling winds or by the cry of some wild beasts doe make the poore passengers most terribly afraide The description of Chiulfal AT length our Carauan ferried ouer the foresaid Riuer and so we arriued at Chiulfal a towne situate in the frontiers between the Armenians and the Atropatians and yet within Armenia inhabited by Christians partly Armenians partly Georgians a people rather giuen to the traffique of Silkes and other sorts of wares whereby it waxeth rich and full of money then instructed in weapons and matters of warre This towne consisteth of two thousand houses and ten thousand soules being built at the foot of a great rocky mountaine in so barren a soile that they are constrained to fetch most of their prouision only wine excepted from the City Nassiuan halfe a dayes iourney off which some thinke to be Artaxata in the confines of Media and Armenia The buildings of Chiulfal are very faire all of hard quarry stone and the inhabitants very courteous and affable great drinkers of wine but no braulers in that drunken humour and when they are most in drinke they powre out their prayers especially to the Virgin Mary as the absolute commander of her Sonne IESVS CHRIST and to other Saints as Intercessors It is