made an Out-cry in the House wringing her hands pulling her Hair and weeping extreamly with pretence that missing him for some time out of Bed she went to see what the matter was and found him accidentally on the Close-stool in that Posture which subtile and feigned Shews of Sorrow she acted so to the Life as prevented all suspicion of his violent Death And not long after went to London setting so high a value upon her Beauty that Robinson her former Darling perhaps for not keeping touch with her as before is related became estranged But within two Years following it so hapned that this woeful deed of Darkness was brought to light and that by the means of the Groom one of the Actors thereof above specified who being entertained a Servant with Mr. Richard Smith Son and Heir to the murthered Knight and attending him to Coventry with divers other Servants his guilty Conscience which had oftentimes before flew in his Face made him become so sensible of his Villany and being in his Cups a bad cause of a good effect that out of good Nature he took his Master aside and upon his Knees humbly desiring Forgiveness of him for the Murther of his Father made him acquainted with all the Circumstances belonging thereunto which tho' it struck in Mr. Smith a great Amazement and Abhorrency of the Fact yet discreetly he gave him good Words but privately commanded some other of his Servants to have an especial Eye on him that he might not escape when he had slept and better considered what might be the Issue thereof but notwithstanding this strict Charge those careless Servants either not knowing the horridness of his Fact or out of love to his Person suffer'd him to escape and that on one of his Master's best Horses who being thus mounted hasted presently into Wales attempting to go beyond Sea but being hindred by contrary Winds after three Essays to launch out was so happily pursued by Mr. Smith who spared for no cost in sending to several Ports that he was apprehended and brought Prisoner to Warwick as was also about the same time the Lady and her Gentlewoman who notwithstanding the Circumstances before recited did all of them with great Boldness deny the Fact the Groom to his other Wickedness most impudently charging Mr. Smith endeavour of corrupting him to accuse the Lady his Mother-in-law falsely to the end he might possess her Joynture but afterwards upon his Arraignment he was so smitten at apprehension of that load of guilt which lay upon him that he publickly acknowledged it and stoutly justified what he had so said to be true to the Face of the Lady and her Maid who at first with a great deal of Confidence pleaded their Innocency but at last seeing each particular Circumstance so clearly discovered and avowed they both confessed the Fact for which having Judgment to dye the Lady was burnt at a Stake near the Hermitage on Wolvey Heath towards the side of Shirford Lordship where the Country People to this day shew the place and the Groom with the Maid suffer'd Death at Warwick This was on May 15. in the third Year of Queen Mary's Reign A remarkable Story of the occasion which made the Danes first to invade England and of their murthering St. Edmund AT such time as the West-Saxons had gotten the Sway of the whole Heptarchy there reigned under them in the Kingdom of Northumberland as Vice-roy one Osbright who as he followed his disport in Hunting came to the House of a Nobleman named Beorn Bocador whose Lady of passing Feature in his Absence gave him honourable Entertainment and intreated both himself and Train to repose themselves there a while after their wearisom Delights The Vice-roy already ensnared with her Beauty accepted her courteous offer not so much to tast her Meats as to surfeit his Eyes with her rare Beauty and lasciviously to dote in his own Affections The Dinner ended and all ready to depart as though some weighty matters were to be handled he commanded an Avoidance from the Presence and taking the Lady into a withdrawing Chamber under pretence of secret Conference greatly tending to the Advancement of her Lord and self most unnobly being not able to prevail by smooth Persuasions did by force violate her constant Chastity which Dishonour thus received and her Mind distracted like to Thamar's at her Husbands Return all ashamed to behold his Face whose Bed had so been wronged with floods of Tears she thus set open the Sluces of her Passions Had thy Fortunes accorded to thy own Desert or thy Choice proceeded as by Vow was obliged then had no stain of Blemish touched thine Honour nor cause of Suspicion once approached thy Thought nor had my self been my self these blushing Cheeks had not invited thy sharp peircing Eye to look into my guilty and defiled Breast which ow thou may'st see disfurnished of Honour and the Closet of pure Chastity broken up only the Heart and Soul is clean yet fears the Tincture of this polluted Cask and would have passage by thy revenging hand from this loathsome Prison and filthy Trunk I must confess our Sex is weak and accompanied with many Faults yet none excusable how small soever much less the greatest which Shame doth follow and inward Guilt continually attend Yours is created more inviolable and firm by whose Constancy as our flexible Weakness is guarded so our true Honours by your just Arms should be protected O Beorn Beorn for Husband I dare not call thee revenge therefore my Wrongs that am now made thy Shame and Scandal of my Sex upon that hideous Monster nay incarnate Devil Osbright O that very name like Poyson corrupts my Breath and I want Words to deplore my Grief who hath no Law but his Lust nor measure of his Actions but his Power nor priviledge for his loathsome Life but his Greatness whilst we with a self Fear and servile Flattery mask our Baseness with crowching Obedience and bear the Wrongs of his most vile Adulteries Thou yet art free from such dejected and degenerate Thoughts nor hast thou smoothed him in his wicked and ever-working Devices be still thy self then and truly noble as thou art It may be for his place thou owest him respect but what therewith the loss of Honour Thine Affection but not thy Bed thy Love but not thy beloved yet hast thou lost at once all these and he thy only Bereaver thou wast my Stay whilst I stayed by thee and now being down revenge my Fall The Instinct of Nature doth pity our Weakness the Law of Nations doth maintain our Honour and the Sword of Knight-hood is sworn by to be unsheathed for our just Defence much more the link of Wedlock claims it which hath lock'd two Hearts in one But alas that Ward is broken and I am thy Shame who might have been thy Honour Revenge thy self therefore on him and me else shall this hand let out the Ghost that shall still attend thee
or Bear which they say would devour them if they did not remove Their Tent or Choom is made in this manner first they set up long Firr-poles then they have six Quarters double of Deer-skins which being set up they throw Snow round about the Edges a Yard thickness leaving the top open for to vent Smoak making a Fire in the middle spreading Deer-skins upon which they lie in which manner it is altogether as warm as the Stones in Russia they have no Towns neither any certain place of abode but with their Deer they travel from place to place where they find the best Moss on which their Deer feed Their Wives they buy for Deer and will have if he have ability four or five Wives with whom he lyeth by turn every Night several he is the richest man that hath most Deer or Daughters selling them to any that will give most for them In their Marriage having agreed of Price they use not great Ceremonies only they make a Feast to their Friends after which the Woman is brought to the Man that hath bought her she being hung with many Iron Rings and Brazen Bells all departing out of the Tent save they two till the next morning and then he departeth but if he be one of Wealth they will continue their Feast seven days It falleth out many times that after they have had their Wives half a Year or a Year they will turn them back to their Friends taking their Deers again paying for the charge of the Feast which is always to be made at her Fathers charge and losing the encrease of his Deer They have no knowledge of the true God but worship Blocks and Images of the Devil unto which they will strangle tame Deer rubbing the Blood on the Idols and eating the Meat themselves When a rich man dies because he shall not travel on foot his Friends will kill three Deer to draw him in the new World and they will strangle a Slave to tend on him The Deer they kill in this manner to serve the dead man they make a Stake sharp which they thrust into the Beasts Fundament with many Howlings and Cryings till they be dead the Master with the Slave they bury the Deer they eat as well raw as boiled or roast although they use all three If a young Child dye under fourteen of their Years which is seven of ours they do hang it by the Neck on some Tree saying it must fly to Heaven If any Controversie be which cannot be decided or the Truth known then one of the two betwixt whom the Controversie is must be sworn which is in this manner they will make an Image of a Man in Snow bringing a Wolf's Nose and delivering a Sword to him that must swear he rehearsing by name all his Friends desiring that they might all be cut in Pieces in that manner as he doth cut that Image of Snow Then he himself doth cut the Image of Snow all to pieces with the Sword then after the Wolves Nose being laid before him he desires that the Wolf may destroy all his tame Deer and that he may never more take or kill any wild Deer after that if he speak not the Truth so cutting the Wolf's Nose in pieces there is no more to be said of that Controversie When they would know any thing to come they send for their Priest or Witch to converse with the Devil sitting in one side of the Tent having before his Face a piece of an old Shirt of Mayl hung with Bells and pieces of Brass in his right hand a great Tabor made with a Wolves skin beating upon the same with a Hares foot making a very doleful sound with singing and calling for the Devil to answer his Demand which being ended they strangle a Deer for a Sacrifice making merry with the Flesh The Women be very hard of Nature for at their Child-bearing the Husband must play the Mid-wife and being delivered the Child is washed with cold Water or Snow and the next day the Woman is able to conduct her Argish or Sled A Description of Groen-land and the Inhabitants thereof by an Eye-witness Anno 1612. THE North-west part of Groen-land is an exceeding high Land to the Sea-ward and almost nothing but Mountains which are wonderful high all within the Land as far as we could perceive they are all of Stone some of one colour and some of another and all glistering as though they were of rich Value but indeed they are not worth any thing There are some Rocks in those Mountains which are exceeding pure Stone finer and whiter than Alabaster The sides of these Mountains are covered with Snow for the most part especially the North-sides and the North-sides of the Valleys having a kind of Moss and in some places Grass with a little Branch running all along the Ground bearing a little black Berry There are few or no Trees growing as far as we could perceive but in one place some forty miles within the Land in a River which we called Ball 's River there I saw on the South-side of an high Mountain which we went up and found as it were a young Grove of small Wood some of it six or seven Foot high like a Coppice in England that had been some two or three Years cut and this was the most Wood that we saw growing in this Country being some of it a kind of Willow Juniper and such like We found in many places much Angelica we suppose the People eat the Roots thereof for some Causes for we have seen them have many of them in their Boats There are great Store of Foxes in the Islands and in the Main of sundry colours and there are a kind of Hares as white as Snow with their Hair or Fur very long Also there be Deer but they are most commonly up within the Main very far because the People do so much hunt them that come near the Sea I saw at one time seven of them together which were all that we did see in the Country but our men have bought divers Coats of the People made of Deers skins and have bought of their Horns also besides we have divers times seen the Foot-steps of some Beasts whose Foot was bigger than the Foot of a great Oxe Furthermore the Inhabitants have a kind of Dogs which they keep at their Houses and Tents which Dogs are almost like unto Wolves living by Fish as the Foxes do but one thing is very strange as I thought for the Pizzles of both Dogs and Foxes are Bone The People all the Summer time use nothing but fishing drying their Fish and Seals-flesh upon the Rocks for their Winter Provision Every one both Man and Woman have each of them a Boat made with long small pieces of Firr-wood covered with Seals-skins very well dressed and sewed so well with Sinews or Guts that no Water can pierce them thorough being some of them above twenty foot long and not past two
Tom Coriat works the wile Your high Displeasure on my Head to bring And well I wot the Sot his Words can file In hope my Fortunes head-long down to fling The King whose Wisdom through the World did Did hear the cause of two offending Harlots ring So I beseech thee great Great Britain's King To do the like for two contending Varlets A brace of Knaves your Majesty implores To hear their Suits as Solomon heard Whores But to return to more serious matters Mr. Coriat being desirous to see the most remote parts of the Earth in the Year 1612. he ship'd himself from London for Constantinople where being arrived he took special notice of all things there most observable In this place as indeed in all places where-ever he came for his facetious Conceits he found very great Respect and Encouragement from Sir Paul Pinder then and there Ambassador to whose House he had free and welcome Access whensoever he pleased being there for some time he took his opportunities to view divers parts in Grecia and in the Hellespont as those two famous Castles of Sestos and Abydos so celebrated of old by the famous Musaeus for the Habitations of Hero and Leander He also saw what yet remains of the Ruins of renowned Troy So rich so powerful that so proudly stood That could for ten years space spend so much blood Now prostrate only her old Ruines shews And Tombs that famous Ancestors enclose The very Ruines of that place being now almost gone to Ruine the most remarkable thing there yet remaining is part of an exceeding great House which is continued by Tradition to have been sometimes a part of the famous Palace of great King Priamus From Smyrna he found a passage to Alexandria in Egyyt where he observed what remains of the once fam'd Pyramids with the other rarities of that famous Country which having viewed he with one English-man more found a Pass by Sea to Joppa in the Land of Judaea and not above twenty miles distant from Jerusalem whither accompanied with divers others he went and found it a very solitary rocky uncomfortable way full of Danger by reason of the wild Arabs who keep about those Passages to make poor Travellers their Prey and Spoil But they came safe to Jerusalem now inhabited by Turks by them called Cutts which signifieth Holy where he vvas courteously received by the Father Guardian of the Convent of Franciscan Fryers that keep their residence in Jerusalem and by some of them were met at the Gate of the City where they were compelled by the Turkish Souldiers who keep those Gates to redeem their Heads by paying each of them the value of five Shillings before they could have admittance into that place which they had no sooner entered but they were presently carried by those Franciscans which met them to their Convent and then the first thing they did to or for them they washed their Feet then set some comfortable Refection before them and after went in Procession about a little Cloyster they had praising God that he had brought in Safety those two Votaries as they called them to visit that holy place A day or two after they accompanied them to Bethlehem the place of our Blessed Saviour's Birth about five English miles distant from Jerusalem and in the way betwixt these two places shewed them a Rock on which as they said the Blessed Virgin sat down as she went on a time betwixt Jerusalem and Bethlehem to give her Babe suck and that the Rock might not feel hard under her it yielded as they told them to her Body like a Cushion and that Impression made by her so sitting remaineth unto this Day and is most devoutly kissed by Votaries as they pass up and down After this they returning back were shewed all that was to be seen in and about Jerusalem as Mount Calvary where our Blessed Saviour suffered that Hill being now inclosed within the Walls of Jerusalem They undertook also to shew them the place wherein our Blessed Saviour was buried and after that upon Mount Olivet the very place whence he after ascended where upon a Rock there was an Impression of the former part of two Feet such as is seen in soft Earth when a man lifts up his Body to leap thence and these Franciscans confidently affirmed and seemed undoubtedly to believe that it was as they shewed and told them At Jerusalem this our Traveller had made upon the Wrist of his left Arm the Arms of Jerusalem a Cross crossed or Crosslets and on the Wrist of his right a single Cross made like that which our Blessed Saviour suffer'd on and on the sides the Stem or Tree of that Cross these Words written Via Veritas Vita some of the Letters being put on the one side of that Stem or Tree and some of them on the other and at the foot of that Cross three Nails to signifie those which fastned our Saviour unto it All these Impressions were made by sharp Needles bound together that pierced only the skin and then a black Powder put into the places so pierced which became presently indelible Characters to continue with him so long as his Flesh should be covered with skin and they were done upon his Arms so artificially as if they had been drawn by some accurate Pencil upon Parchment This poor man would pride himself very much in the beholding of these Characters and seeing them would often speak those Words of St. Paul to the Galatians Gal. 6. 17. far besides the Apostles meaning I bear in my Body the marks of the Lord Jesus And now having seen what he desired in and about Jerusalem after his Repast the Shot came to pay Money to recompence the Courtesie of the Franciscans who being very poor are unable to entertain People without such Requitals which he and his Comrade willingly gave as having had a good Penny-worth of Eye-sight From hence they took their way to take a view of the Dead Sea so called either because the Water therein is still and moves not or because no living Creature is in it suffocating Birds that fly over it with the Poyson of the ascending Vapors A name of Right Impos'd in that to all Birds opposite Which when those Air 's swift Passengers o're fly Forgetful of their Wings they fall from high With out-stretch'd Necks Hence they went to have a sight of the River Jordan which dischargeth it self into that most uncomfortable Lake and from hence they journeyed North-East thorough those ten Tribes which for the Sin of Solomon were rent from his Son Rehoboam till they came to Mount Libanus thence back to Sidon from whence they got a Passage by Sea to Alexandretta now called Scandaroon where his English Companion left him and turned his Face towards England but our Greek-travelling-Thomas still coveting to see more of the World presently took his way towards Aleppo in Syria about seventy miles or more distant from Scandaroon Here he being kindly received
by the English Consul stayed a time to gain the Company of a Caravan which consists of a great mix'd multitude of People from divers parts which get and keep together travelling those parts for fear of the Incursions and Violences by Thieves and Murtherers which they would undoubtedly meet withal if they travelled single or but few together with these he set forwards to that City anciently called Nineveh in Assyria which we find in the Prophecy of Jonah was sometimes a great and excellent City of three days Journey Jonah 3. 3. but now so exceedingly lessen'd and lodg'd in Obscurity that Passengers cannot say of it This was Nineveh which hath now it's old Name changed and is called Mozel From hence they journeyed to Babylon in Chaldaea scituated upon the River Euphrates once likewise so great that Aristotle called it a Country not a City but now it is very much contracted and is called Bagdat From this place they proceeded thorough both the Armenia's where he saw the Mountain Ararat where the Ark of Noah rested after the Flood Gen. 8. From hence they went forward towards the Kingdom of Persia to Uzspahan the usual place of Residence for that great King then called Sha Abbas or King Abbas a victorious Monarch and though of a bloody and tyrannick Disposition yet very kind and respectful to the English Next they went to Seras anciently call'd Sushan where the great King Ahasuerus kept his Royal and most magnificent Court as you may read in Esther 1. From hence for you must think his Shoos were made of running Leather he journeyed to Candahor the first Province North-East under the Subjection of the Great Mogol and so to Lahore the chiefest City but one belonging to that great Empire and afterwards to Agra the Mogol's Metropolis or chief City And here it is very observable that from Lahore to Agra it is 400 English miles and that the Country betwixt both these great Cities is rich being a pleasant and flat Campania and the Road-way on both sides all this long distance planted with great Trees which are all the year cloathed with Leaves exceeding beneficial unto Travellers for the Shade they afford them in those hot Climes This very much extended length of way 'twixt these two places is called by Travellers the Long walk very full of Villages and Towns for Passengers every where to find Provision At Agra our Traveller made an Halt being there lovingly received in the English Factory where he stayed till he had gotten to his Turkish and Morisco or Arabian Languages some good Knowledge in the Persian and Indostan Tongues in which Study he was always very apt and in little time shewed much Proficiency The first of these two the Persian is the more quaint the other the Indian the vulgar Language spoken in East-India in both these he suddenly got such a Knowledge and Mastery that it did exceedingly afterwards advantage him in his Travels up and down the Mogol's Territory he wearing always the Habit of that Nation and speaking their Language In the first of these viz. the Persian Tongue he terwards made an Oration to the Great Mogol which for the rareness of the Language and the honour of our great perambulating Traveller we have transcribed verbatim as followeth HAzaret Aallum pennah salamet fooker Daruces ve tehaungeshta hustam kemia emadam azwellagets door ganne az mulk Inglizan ke kessanaion pethee mushacas cardand ke wellagets mazcoor der akers magrub bood ke mader hamma iezzaerts dunmast Sabebbe amadane mari mia boosti char cheez ast an valbe dedane mobarreckdeedars Hazaret ke seete caramat ba hamma Trankestan reesedast ooba tamam mulk Musulmanan der sheenedan awsaffe Hazaret daveeda amadam be deedane astane akdus musharaf geshtam duum bray deedane feelhay Hazaret kin chumn iauooar der heech mulk ne dedam sen in bray deedane mamwer daryaee shumma Gauga ke Serdare hamma daryaha dumiest Chaharum een ast keyer fermawne alishaion amayet fermayand ke betwanam der wellayetts Uzbeck raftan ba Shahre Samarcand bray zeerat cardan cabbre mobarrec Saheb crawncah awsaffe tang oo mosacheere oo der tamam aallum meshoor ast belkder wellagotte uzber eencader meshoor neest chunan che der mulc Inglisan ast digr bishare eshteeac daram be dedane mobarrec mesare Saheb crawnca bray een Saheb The awne samanche foeheer de shabr stambol boodam ycaieb cohuu amarat deedam dermean yecush bung nasdec shaht mascoor coia che padshaw Eezawiawn che numesh Manuel bood che Saheb crawnca cush mehmannec aseem carda bood baad as gristane Sulteri Baiasestra iange aseem che shuda bood nos dec shahere Bursa coimache Saheb crawn Sultan Baiasetra de Zenicera tellaio bestand oo der cases nahadond een char chees meera as mulche man ium baneed ta mia as mulc Room oo Arrac peeada geshta as door der een mulc reseedum che char hasorr pharsang raw dared beshare derd oo mohuet casheedam che heech ches der een dunmia een cader mohuet ne casheedast bray deedune mobarrec dedaret Hasereret awn roos chee be tacte shaugh ne shaughee musharaf fermoodand The same in English LOrd Protector of the World all hail to you I am a poor Traveller and World-seer which am come hither from a far Country namely England which ancient Historians thought to have been scituated in the farthest Bounds of the West and which is the Queen of all the Islands in the World The cause of my coming hither is for four Respects first to see the blessed face of your Majesty whose wonderful Fame hath resounded over all Europe and the Mahometan Countries when I heard of the fame of your Majesty I hastened hither with speed and travelled very chearfully to see your glorious Court secondly to see your Majesties Elephants which kind of Beasts I have not seen in any other Country thirdly to see your famous River Ganges which is the Captain of all the Rivers of the World the fourth is this to entreat your Majesty that you would vouchsafe to grant me your gracious Pass that I may travel into the Country of Tartaria to the City of Sarmacand to visit the blessed Sepulchre of the Lord of the Corners viz. Tamberlain whose Fame by reason of his Wars and Victories is published over the whole World perhaps he is not altogether so famous in his own Country of Tartaria as in England Moreover I have a great desire to see the blessed Tomb of the Lord of the Corners for this cause for that when I was at Constantinople I saw a notable old Building in a pleasant Garden near the said City where the Christian Emperour that was called Emanuel made a sumptuous great Banquet to the Lord of the Corners after he had taken Sultan Bajazet in Fetters of Gold and put him in a Cage of Iron These four causes moved me to come out of my Native Country thus far having travell'd on foot through Turky and Persia so
small Turrets which are made open with Lights every way that a man in them may be easily seen and heard Now their Moolaas or devout Priests do five times every day ascend unto the tops of those high Turrets whence they proclaim as loudly as they can possibly speak their Prophet Mahomet thus in Arabian La alla illa alla Mahomet Resul-alla that is There is no God but one God and Mahomet the Messenger from God Upon a time Tom Coriat when their Moolaa was to cry as aforesaid he got upon an high place directly opposite to one of those Priests and contradicted him thus La alla illa alla Hasaret Eesa Benalla that is No God but one God and the Lord Christ the Son of God and farther added that Mahomet was an Impostor and all this he spake in their own Language as loud as possibly he could in the ears of many Mahometans that heard it But whether Circumstances considered the zeal or discretion of our Pilgrim were more here to be commended I leave to the judgment of the Reader No doubt but had this bold attempt of his been acted in many other places of Asia it would have cost him his Life with as much torture as cruelty could have invented But he was here taken for a Mad-man and so let alone Haply the rather because every one there hath liberty to profess his own Religion freely and if he please may argue against theirs without fear of an Inquisition as this our Pilgrim did at another time with a Moolaa who had called him Giaur that is Infidel or false Believer which Mr. Coriat took in such Dudgeon that he made a Speech to him as followeth Mr. Coriat's Speech to a Mahometan But I pray thee tell me thou Mahometan dost thou in sadness call me Giaur That I do quoth he Then quoth I in very sober sadness I retort that shameful word in thy Throat and tell thee plainly that I am a Musulman and thou art a Giaur for by that Arab word Musulman thou dost understand that which cannot properly be applyed to a Mahometan but only to a Christian so that I do consequently infer that there are two kinds of Musulmen the one an Ortho-musulman that is a true Musulman which is a Christian and the other a Pseudo-musulman that is a false Musulman which is a Mahometan What thy Mahomet was from whom thou dost derive thy Religion assure thy self I know better than any one of the Mahometans amongst many Millions yea all the particular Circumstances of his Life and Death his Nation his Parentage his driving Camels thorough Aegypt Syria and Palestina the marriage of his Mistress by whose Death he raised himself from a very base and contemptible Estate to great Honour and Riches his manner of cozening the sottish People of Arabia partly by a tame Pidgeon that did fly to his Ear for meat and partly by a tame Bull that he fed by hand every day with the rest of his Actions both in Peace and War I know as well as if I had lived in his time or had been one of his Neighbours in Mecha the Truth whereof if thou didst know as well I am persuaded thou would'st spit in the face of thy Alcoran and trample it under thy Feet and bury it under a Jakes a Book of that strange and weak matter that I my self as meanly as thou dost see me attired now have already written two better Books God be thanked and will hereafter this by God's gracious Permission write another better and truer yea I would have thee know thou Mahometan that in that renowned Kingdom of England where I was born Learning doth so flourish that there are many thousand Boys of sixteen years of Age that are able to make a more learned Book than thy Alcoran neither was it as thou and the rest of you Mahometans do generally believe composed wholly by Mahomet for he was of so dull a Wit he was not able to make it without the help of another namely a certain Renegado Monk of Constantinople called Sergis so that his Alcoran was like an Arrow drawn out of the Quiver of another man I perceive thou dost wonder to see me so much inflamed with Anger but I would have thee consider it is not without great cause I am so moved for what greater Indignity can there be offered to a Christian which is an Artho-musulman than to be called Giaur by a Giaur c. By this which hath been said you may perceive our Coriat thus distinguished that himself was the Orthodox Musulman or true Believer The Moolaa the Pseudo-Musulman or false true Believer a distinction which must needs make an Intelligent Reader to smile It also shews what an opinion he had of his former writings and how if he had returned what a bustle he would have made in the World with another Volume but death prevented him for having left it Thomas Rowe the English Ambassador at Mandoa he went to Surat where he was over-kindly used by some of the English who gave him Sack which they had brought from England he calling for it as soon as he first heard of it and crying Sack Sack is there such a thing as Sack I pray you give me some Sack and drinking of it though moderately for he was a very temperate man it increased his Flux which he had then upon him and this caused him within a few days after his very tedious and troublesome Travels for he went most on foot at this place to come to his journeys end for here he overtook Death December 1617. and was buried under a little Monument like one of those usually made in our Church-yards upon whom a joking Wit made this Epitaph Here lies the Wonder of the English Nation Within the bosome of old Tellus maw For fruitless Travel and for strange Relation He past and repast all thy eyes e're saw Odcomb produc'd him many Nations fed him And worlds of Writers through the World have spread him The reason inducing the Mahometans to often Prayer exemplified by a Story IN a great City where Mahomet was zealously professed there lived say they a devout Musulman who for many years together spent his whole day in the Mosquit or Church in the mean time he minding not the World at all became so poor that he had nothing left to buy bread for his Family yet notwithstanding his poor condition he was resolved still to ply his Devotions and in a morning when he perceived that there was nothing at all left for the further subsistence of himself and houshold took a solemn leave of his Wife and Children resolving for his part to go and pray and dye in the Mosquit leaving his Family if no relief came to famish at home But that very day he put on this resolution there came to his house in his absence a very beautiful young Man as he appeared to be who brought and gave unto his Wife a very good quantity of