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A32752	A relation of the late embassy of Monsr. de Chaumont, Knt. to the court of the King of Siam with an account of the government, state, manners, religion and commerce of that kingdom.; Relation de l'ambassade de M. le chevalier de Chaumont à la Cour du roi de Siam. English	Chaumont, Alexandre, chevalier de, d. 1710.	1687 (1687)	Wing C3737C; ESTC R6683	53,413	156

A RELATI●●● Of the La●●● EMBASSY OF Mons r. De Chaumont Kn t. TO THE COURT OF THE KING of SIAM With an Account of the Government State Manners Religion and Commerce of that Kingdom LONDON Printed for Henry Mortlock at the Phoenix in S. Paul's Church-Yard 1687. A RELATION OF THE EMBASSY OF Mon r. De Chaumont Kn t. TO THE COURT OF THE KING of SIAM With an Account of whatever past that was remarkable in his Voyage I Parted from Brest the third of March 1685. on the King's Ship called the Hawk accompanied by one of His Majesties Frigats named the Maline and that with so favourable a Wind that in seven days we arrived at the Madera Islands we thus happily past on till we came to four or five degrees northward of the Equinoctial line When we were overtaken by a calm and suffered extreme heats but which yet did not much incommode us the wind began again to blow and we past the line three hundred and fifty degrees five minutes of longitude thirty days after our setting out We found the water here to be as fresh and good as if it had sprang from some pleasant fountain which made us neglect to use that in our Jarrs At five degrees southward of the line we found the Winds very inconstant but the heats not troublesom and I left not off my winter garments in all this passage The Winds though variable yet carried us our course so that we arrived at the Cape of Good Hope the 31st of May to take in fresh water and other Provisions although my old store was not exhausted We cast anchor late at night and found in this road four Dutch Vessels that came from Holland and had on Board a Commissioner who was to order affairs in behalf of the East-India Company Monsieur St. Martin Major General a French man who has been in the Dutch service this thirty years was also in one of these Vessels intending for Batavia where his Employment lay The Commissioner General sent to complement me the first day of my arrival and the next morning his Nephew and Secretary came to offer me whatsoever 〈◊〉 might want The Inhabitants of the Countrey brought presents of Fruits and Cattle and the Dutch Vessels sa●uted our Ships after the accustomed manner The Dutch have here a small Fort and near an hundred Houses about a Musquet shot off it which are well built and in good order The situation of this place is very pleasant although bounded by a great Mountain inhabited by an infinite number of Monkies which oft come down into their Gardens and spoil the Fruit. There are also several Summer-houses two three and four leagues off in the countrey and beyond this vast Mountain there is plain near ten Leagues long where are several Houses well inhabited and which are every day increasing The Climate is mild enough their Spring beginning in October and ending in December their Summer last● January February and March their Autumn is in April May June and their Winter in July August September the heats would be very great● were they not moderated by gentle Gales The Dutch East-India Company have here a most pleasant Garden● whose great Walk is fourteen hundred paces long it is planted every where thick with Citron Trees This Garden is ordered into Apartments in one of them you may see Fruit-trees and the rarest Plants of Asia in the other the most exquisite of Africa in the third such as are choicest in Europe and in the fourth such Fruits and Plant● as grow in America This Garden is very well kept and of good use to the Dutch by a great quantity of Herb● and Roots which it supplies them with for the Refreshment of their Fleets when they come here to pass to the Indies or returning to their own Countrey I found there a French Gardiner who had heretofore learnt his Trade at the Gardens of Monsieur at St. Cloud The Soil is very good and yields good store of grain A person worthy credit has assured me he saw an hundred and sixty Ears of Corn on one stalk The Inhabitants of the Countrey have fair Countenances but herein deceitfull for they are mere bruits they go naked excepting that part which they cover with a nasty Skin of a beast They till not the Ground yet abound with Cattel such as ●ows Hogs and Sheep They scarce eat any of these their chiefest dyet being Milk and Butter which for cleanliness sake they make in Sheep Skins They have a root which hath the taste of the Kernel of one of our small Nuts which serves them for bread They are indifferently skilled in Simples which they can use in the Cure of Wounds and other Distempers The greatest Lords amongst them are they that have most Cattle which they watch and keep themselves They of● have wars with each other about their pastures Are greatly annoyed with wild Beasts there being more than a few Lions Leopards Tygers Wolves wild Dogs Elephants and other savage Creatures All their Arms are a kind of poisoned Lance to strike these Beasts with They have a kind of Toyls wherewith they enclose their Cattel at night They trouble not themselves much about Religion yet observe some slight Ceremonies to the Full-moon which do not signifie much Their Language seems difficult to be understood They have much game as Pheasants Partridges three or four sorts Peacocks Hares Coneys and Deer in such abundance that sometimes a Man shall see near twenty thousand together in a plain We ate some of these before mentioned and found them admirable good The Sheep are here very large of fourscore pound weight commonly Here are great quantity of Cows and Oxen. The Sea in this Bay is full of Fish which are of good relish some of them having the taste of Salmon This place abounds with Sea-wolves and when in our Shallop we perceived an infinite number came tumbling by us of which we could not kill one Several wild Horses scamper along the plains which if I mistake not are inferiour to none in other parts both in strength and beautifull colours and shapes I brought along with me one of their Skins they are hard to be mastered This being such a good Countrey the Hollanders send continually fresh people to it who make every season considerable discoveries Some say they have found out Gold and Silver Mines of which 't is not to be expected they should say much themselves The water is here very good proceeding from several Springs near Rivers which abound as I already noted with Fish We parted from this Road the seventh of June with so favourable a North Wind and North North West that we soon got into the open Sea and that night steered to Bantam we endured vehement Rains and met with great Seas till we reached the Isles of Madegascar which was on the seventeenth of June On these Seas you perceive great quantity of Birds but find therein no Fish Till July we encountred

with boisterous Seas and met with variable Winds which forced us forty degrees southward where we found a Western Wind with which we made great way The twenty fourth the Maline Frigat was separated from us by bad weather being driven to the North. The third of August we found the Sea less troublesome and the weather more favourable and at break of day discovered an Island seven or eight leagues before us which surprised us it not being described in our Chart It is situated ten degrees nineteen minutes of latitude Southward This Isle lies convenient for the finding of the Isle of Java which cannot be distant from it above an hundred and fifty Leagues and since we understood 't is called the Isle of Money being ill set down in our Maps which place it near that of Java This Isle lies very high we coasted yet two days with a good gale and on the fifth about eight in the morning we discovered the Isle of Java which gave us much more Joy and the seventh following we found our selves between the Princes Isle and that of the Emperour which make the entrance of the Straits The Isle of the Emperour lies on the side of Sumatra and the Isle of the Prince on the side of Java We lay four days between these Islands the Winds and Streams opposing us in so violent a manner that what we gained in twelve hours we lost in four by means of calms which often happened Before we entred this Strait the Frigat which lost us on the twenty fourth of June came up to our Ship side this day before we knew who she was The thirteenth we left these Islands behind us and cast Anchor within a League of Java There came on board us several persons in little Boats who brought us the Countrey Fruits such as Coco's the water which is contained in them being excellent drink as also Melons Citrons and several otherlike Presents which much refresht our Men tired with the fatigues of the Sea and over-run with the Scurvy On the sixteenth in the morning we came to Bantam where I found the Maline Frigat which tarried For me two days The Captain of it came and told me that the Governour of the place would not give him entrance but onely presented him with some Fowl and Fruits whereupon I sent Mr. De Forbin my Lieutenant to compliment this Governour from me and entreat him to grant me leave to land my sick Men to take in fresh water and other necessaries He returned answer he was not the Master of Bantam and that there was a King of the place who would not admit any stranger to his Countrey The Hollanders make use of this King's Name being unwilling that strange Vessels should come amongst them especially the Europeans Since they have settled there they have driven all other Nations out 'T is a great Town and well peopled by the Natives before the Hollanders became Masters of it 't was the chiefest place of the Indies for Commerce people came there from Europe Persia China Japon the Great Mogol's Countrey and divers other parts but now the Hollanders have got all into their Hands which is of vast advantage to them for this place may be compared to what heretofore was Cales in Spain As soon as I received the Governour 's Answer who yet told me that if I would go to Batavia I should find there a kind reception I therefore weighed Anchor and set sail for that place to which there 's but fifteen Leagues I was three days before I arrived there for having no Pilot that was acquainted with those parts I fell on several Islands which caused me to cast Anchor every night and in the day time to move with small sail sounding all places I went over but I arrived on the thirteenth at night where assoon as I had cast Anchor I sent my Lieutenant to the General to complement him and to desire leave to bring my sick Men on shoar and take in refreshments He took my Complement in good part and returned answer he would take care I should be satisfied I sent next morning sixty five sick Men on shoar who all recovered their healths in seven days that I tarried at Batavia On the nineteenth in the morning the General sent me a Complement by three Officers the Summ of which was to desire me to come on shoar offering me his own House to lodge● in After necessary Thanks I answered I wished my Orders would have permitted me that Liberty The General sent me a great Shalop laden with all sorts of Indian Fruits Herbs new Bread two Oxen two Sheep and thus continued for several days presenting us On the twenty second I landed incognito and viewed the Town in a small Boat 'T is like Venice having Chanels which run through every street and planted with great Trees which yield an agreeable shade as well to the Chanels as the Streets the Houses are built as they are in Holland there is a Citadel indifferently well fortified the Town in enclosed with a Wall and great Ditch but not deep The Houses round about it are extreme pleasant being related to curious Gardens and Fish-ponds wherein are admirable Fish of all sorts In this Town the Traders are exceeding rich and spare no cost ●or their Delight neither do they de●y themselves unlawfull satisfaction with Women I took the liberty my self to entertain four or five of them ●t divers times in my walks in the gar●ens their dresses are like the French There is in Batavia about fifty Coaches some of which are very stately their Horses are none of the biggest but to make amends are in so good plight ●hat they need no spur This Town ●s a place of vast Commerce and its Riches are so great that the Inhabi●ants need not be sparing of their Money 't is well peopled and the Dutch keep a strong Garison they have there ●ear three thousand Moors who are ●laves and several of the Natives they ●eep under their Obedience who live ●bout the Town The Isle of Java in which this City is situated is very populous contains two hundred Leagues ●n length and forty in breadth it has five Kings over whom the Hollanders●re ●re Masters they are Mahometans I sent to the General for a Pilot for Siam mine having never been there he lent me one who had sailed there four times for these civilities I sent Mr. Forbin to thank him On Sunday being the twenty sixth of August at six of the Clock in the morning we set sail and steered our course to pass the Strait of Banca we advanced that day ten Leagues with a small Wind and at nine at night I was told of a Sail that made towards my Vessel whereupon I bid the Officer be prepared when immediately I saw out of my Window this Ship coming up to us we called out to know what she was but could have no answer and coming on the Deck I found all our Men provided for