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A00709	An exact and curious suruey of all the East Indies, euen to Canton, the chiefe cittie of China all duly performed by land, by Monsieur de Monfart, the like whereof was neuer hetherto, brought to an end. VVherein also are described the huge dominions of the great Mogor, to whom that honorable knight, Sir Thomas Roe, was lately sent ambassador from the King. Newly translated out of the trauailers manuscript.	Feynes, Henri de.; Loiseau de Tourval, Jean.	1615 (1615)	STC 10840; ESTC S102015	23,945	52

great importance they are Gentiles and there the inhabitants begin to bee faire complextioned Thence I Trauailled 2 months to the Cochinchines finding nothing by the way worthie of note no not so much as necessaries so that wee were faine to carrie our victuals with vs the greatest part of the way They are Subiects to the King of China but sometimes they rebell and make warre against him And there is great number of Christians among them Their Kings treasure consisteth in a certaine kind of wood called Calamba for which the Portugalls pay 100. crownes a pound to make Pater-nosters with It is of a mixte color with blacke and yeallow vaines the better sorte of it is moiste so that being cut it expelleth a kind of fat oylie liquor It groweth out of a certaine tree which they fell and let it lie a while a putrifying then they bruse it and within the same they finde this kind of wood like many hard knots They are a very white people because there it begins to be colde lowe of stature flat nosde and little eyed with a very few haires on their chins and mustachoes none at all on their cheekes the haire of the head they weare long like women tied vp with a black silke haire-lace weare a flat cap vpō them They weare cloth Breeches made very leuell a short robe aboue them like a master of the chamber of accounts There are found a kind of Serpents that will swallowe vp a whole Stag Two Friers assured me that trauailling in that countrey together with 16 other men through a fenni-marsh about the dawning of the day they met to their seeming a great tree lying along the ground the boughes beging lopped off vpon which they all began to sit down rest themselues but no sooner were they sate but that which they tooke for a tree fiercely rowsd it selfe from vnder them and left them all to picke strawes on the ground for indeed this was one of those Serpents Their custome is as they say to put themselues in ambush among the boughs of a tree and when they espie their pray to draw neere bee it man or beast they fal vpon him with open mouth and deuoure it There are also store of Lions Leopards and Tigres and there the fruits begin to resemble those of these partes but the fruit which aboue al others aboundeth there is the Mirabolan Thence I set forwards to Canton the principall Cittie of all China some 3. moneths trauaill distant beyond which there is no passage say any body what hee will to the contrary for neuer any man proceeded further except as they say 6 Iesuits who dwelled 20 yeares at Canton as well to learne the language perfectly as to let their haire to growe long after the countrey manner of whom there was neuer since heard any newes nor is their hope euer to see their returne That people is very white and apparelled as is aboue said they are likewise Gentiles and worship the same Image with three heads Their women of of the better sorte and quality which are able to liue of their owne without working neuer goe out of their houses but as they are carried in a chaire And to that effect from their infancie they put their feete into certaine woodden slippers to make them stump-footed and impotent in so much as they are not able to goe the reason they alleadge for it is that women were made to no other ende then to keepe at home The Christians are not permitted to lie within the Cittie but as soone as night approaches they must retire thēselues to their ships being lawfull for them to traffick whersoeuer they please by day light And for their trafficke what rarities soeuer there be throughout all China are to bee had in this citty which are diligently brought thither to wit great store of cloth of gold and silke cabinets wrought vessels Venus shells Massiue gold and many other things They will exchaunge or barter gold for twice as much waight in siluer for they haue no coyned money for when they would buy any thing they carry with them a peece of gold and will cut of as much as they intend to bestowe on what they take They make carued Images of siluer which they erect heere and there through the streets and no bodie dares touch them The Citty is gouerned by 4 rulers and each one hath his gouernment or circuit a part secluded from each other those of one quarter dare not goe and labour in another and those which cause them selues to be carried from one part to another must change their bearers when they come to the gate of the next circuit those gates are opened euery morning and shut euery night vnlesse there be any cōplaint made of some misdemeanure committed within the circuit for then they shut them suddenly or if they be shut they open them not till the offendor bee found The King bestowes these commands on those who are best learned This is a most faire Cittie and well built very neere as big as Paris but there the houses are arched and nothing neere so high Their Venus-shells consist of certaine kind of earth or clay which hath remaind a 100 yeares in one place and remoued euery eight dayes There is so much sugar in that Country that it is by them very little set by yet is silke in farre more great abundance but withall more course then ours by reason of their store being so great as they are constrained to make it abroad in the fields on the very trees in this wise when the wormes are hatched whereof the eggs are farre greater then ours They obserue what quantitie of wormes each tree will bee able to feede then they lay so many on it leauing them there without any more adoe except it bee to gather the quods when they are ready to be spunne which is done as they gather Apricocks for indeed a farre off they appeare to be so and is a very fine sight to behould they vse a strange kind of fishing with Cormorants and surely from thence must needes haue deriued at first the like inuention which as I heare was of late brought into England and thence hether They tie their necks a litle aboue their stommacks least they should deuour the fish they take then comming to their maister hee pulleth it a liue out of their throates likewise for water foule they make vse of great bottles with two holes which they leaue floating vp and downe the water a good while to acquaint the foules therewith then some fellowes will wade vp to the necke in the water thrusting their heads into those bottles and hauing a bag vnderneath come as neere the foule as they will taking them with their hands without the rest being afraid of it From Canton I returned to Macao and tooke my way through the kingdome of Pegu which is much transformed from what it was heretofore by reason of a

Ierusalem so contrary one to another and so much beaten and beaten againe as it is both shame and losse that such toyes should be vttered but that euer some prettie wit must get money by making others loose their tyme I thought this Author could not but proue profitable and welcome Seeing that with no other end but onely to see learne he did vndertake his trauell without loade or engagement of marchandise or of any priuate end or company ranging still vp downe and curiously prying and peircing as far as he could into euery Iland or Continent yea neuer by water where hee might by land hath discouered in yonder world more Nations more People more Kingdomes more Townes more Fashions more Particularities then euer any man before or since to our knowledge Now for the Style this man doth not stand vpon flowers nor I my selfe who do follow him as neere as I can Neyther doth hee fill the paper with idle talkes of a Tempest or a Ship-wracke a Robberie here a Disgrace there or shamefully recount how many Kicks how many Knocks and Bastinadoes hee had this way or that way a thing more then most common among Turkes and Infidels He sweares vpon his credite he had none Neyther doth he stand vpon any other vayne particulars but directly goeth to the maine saying what hee can and what hee knoweth goes to the heart and life of whom he intends to bee reuenged not onely for his long imprisonment but also for somewhat more then he dares write for this present Whereof neuerthelesse he will giue an inkling in his fit place before he end sufficient enough to enforme of the whole such as are not altogether blind or deafe But nowe it is high tyme to heare him speake ⸫ THE TRAVAILES of Monsieur de Monfart to CHINA by land the like whereof was neuer yet performed IN the name of GOD in the yeere of our LORD 1608. I Henry Defeynes commonly called by the name of the Mannor of Monfart wayting then vppon the most Illustrious most Reuerend Cardinall of Ioyeuse vpon some priuate discontent taken against such a person of whom I could not well nor yet trulie would reuenge my selfe knowing nothing doth so much aggrauate and nourrish vp griefe as Idlenes yea idlenes in the same place where the griefe hath beene taken and in continuall sight of the cause and subiect thereof neither seeing at that time any worthy warre in Christendome to applie my bodie and minde away from my wonted thoughts did fully resolue to vndertake some farre and hard trauell that by leauing behinde olde displeasures and purposely going to seeke and finde me new I should striue to banish the one by meanes of the other or at least trie what change the chiefest I thinke comfort in misery would worke in me For sure it is not to haue fellowes otherwise a man might soone be contented First then I went the common and neerer way from Paris directly to Venice not yet well resolued which way I should bend afterwards but determining there to take my course At Venice I must needs indeed take ship Therefore hauing resolued vpon Babilon Persia and the East Indies I sayled to Alexandretta otherwise called by the Turks Scanderone in Syria This is a common way a knowne towne which serues for a hauen to Aleppo though three dayes iourney off It is an ill-fauoured vnluckie and vnwholesome Citty within eyght myles of Tharshis the birth-Cittie of S. Paul But many going returning daily from thence haue both sayd and written so much of it as I neede little to add Onely thus much that it is the first place of firme land where first and formost and for the first discommoditie there are no Innes to bee found for trauellers so that they must eyther carrie their owne victuals and prouision themselues or put it vppon Cammels Secondly almost all trauellers but trulie at least and chiefely all Christians come to loose the right of themselues and become as poore wretched slaues subiect to all iniuries disgraces robberies mis-vsings in words and deeds by theeues drunkards or the next base fellow from which their very Ianizaries and Gardes cannot alwayes defend them though they be payd deerely for it and sometimes indeed do their best for the same and for some priuate offence eyther punish the malefactors themselues or cause them sharply to be punished But against hundreds of theeues as they flocke ordinarily together to assayle passengers there is none nor can be any Iustice or helpe at all So that a Christian being now become the weaker though twice stronger must here begin whether he will or no to obserue his masters commandement and turne the left cheeke when hee hath beene smitten on the right For indeed the readie way to preuent more blowes is euen to take the hand that hath stricken you very hartilie kissing it with a cheereful countenance stroake the knaue by the beard which he will take verie kindly From Scanderone therefore I went to Aleppo and your chiefe place in the way is Antiochia where Christians were first so called This Aleppo is one of the fairest and greatest Mart-Citties in all the world And from thence one cannot trauell with a simple guarde or Conuoy but with whole Carauans otherwise called Caffes that is whole numbers and multitudes of men with their Cammels ioining and cleauing all in a troope like an Armie to march together in those hence forward most hard desolate and very dangerous wayes There hauing found the vsuall Embassador from the Basha of Babilon Captaine of the Caffe or Carauane which goeth twice a yeare from thence thether I gaue him a 100. Rials of eight for my dyet safe conduct through the Arabian desart The Carauane cōsisted at that time of 10000 men or rather more They trauell all by night as well to auoide the vehement heate of the day as to be guided by the starre and therefore such guides as are expert in that faculty name themselues Pilots They carry all their victuals on Cammels till they come to certaine place beyond the Desart wherof I le speake anon This desart is all sandy and destitute of paths or highwayes neither may there be any by reason of the continual motion which the wind causeth in the sand All that groweth there as well trees as shrubbs are Caper-plants or Tamariskes on which the Cammels do feede There shall you find no kind of fierce or Sauage beasts but only Asses Roes Gazells which is a kind of wild goates with an innumerable number of Staggs yea in such quantity and so bolde as often times they run through the Carauane not knowing whether men are to be feared or no. We were most commonly constrained for meere necessity to goe and bayte out of our way to enioy the vse and commodity of some wells which to this day are preserued among the ruines of certaine townes that heretofore were builded in those places And sometimes without finding