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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45281	An account of the famous Prince Giolo, son of the King of Gilolo, now in England with an account of his life, parentage, and his strange and wonderful adventures, the manner of his being brought for England : with a description of the island of Gilolo, and the adjacent isle of Celebes, their religion and manners / written from his own mouth.	Hyde, Thomas, 1636-1703.; Giolo, Prince of Gilolo, b. ca. 1662.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3872; ESTC R1979	23,672	30

those long Wars he had lost his Sons yet he had two Daughters one very Beautiful whom in the beginning of his resolution of casting off the Forreign Yoak was Married to my Father to joyn him to his interests whose power was sufficient to obstruct all his desires of freedom She bore my self and another Brother that I hope lives still to keep up the Honour of our Kingdom and one Daughter Beautiful as her self had been but not so sweet and candid a humour being too much a lover of her self and revengeful not easily forgetting what she thought an injury done to her Father and my self as the sequel of my Story will make evident By that time we were grown up to Men and Womens estate the King of Batachina our Grandfather by my Mother had lost all his Sons in the Wars I have mentioned who had left no Issue among them all but one Daughter so that in all probability that Kingdom would fall to my Father in the right of his Wife upon the Death of his Father-in-Law Giolo for that was his Name and for his sake had it conferr'd upon me who was now very Old and his other Daughter died for grief of the loss of so many of her Brothers whom she tenderly loved But the Old King finding he had no Issue Male to succeed him and unwilling to have his Family and Name bury in another that was a Stranger only by the Marriage of his Daughter which Match he had not consented to had it not then been necessary for his Interest so to have done resolved to Marry again to see if he could get a Son of his own in his Old Age to inherit his Name and that Kingdom he had redeemed by the loss of so much of his own and Childrens Blood from the hands of insulting Forreigners He Marries therefore a young Beautiful Lady of but a mean extraction for the Bed of a Prince by her had none but Girls and those of a very short Life Therefore finding Fate had so Ordained it that my Father should infallibly succeed him in his Crown his Grand daughter and all being now dead he seat to have him remove to his City of residence called Batachina as the whole Kingdom was that he might in his Life-time make him acquainted with and easie to the People The time of our departure being come my Brother was to be left Vice-Roy of his Kingdoms tho' he included he also should go with him at this time to pay his respects to his Grand-father but God ordered it for his happiness that the day that we were to go he was taken ill and obliged by that to stay behind therefore my Sister and I were to accompany my Father and Mother by Sea in a small Vessel in which being invited by the calmness of the Weather he was resolved to coast along the shore to Batachina secure of any danger in the midst of so great an attendance as went along with him in several other small Boats But after the first dayes Journey when it grew towards Night my Father commanded the Master of the Vessel to steer farther out to Sea and so cut off a great nook that bent in several Miles into the Land and so before it was very late hoped to reach the Cape where he intended to go ashore and pass some days till he had dispatched some Messengers before to the Court of Giolo to inform him of his coming and if the Weather altered designed to go from thence by Land But so it was that the Heavens had decreed my misfortune and in that my Fathers Mothers tho' not my Sisters Night came farther on than the King my Father imagined and that which hapned was the rising of the Clouds and with them a Wind and Storm which bore our Vessels out to Sea farther than we desired and by the next Morning after with a great deal of pains and difficulty we had kept the Royal Vessel above Water all Night we found our selves far from any shoar and out of sight of any Land all alone without any Boat near us to bring us any relief if we should be attacqued by any Pyrate which happened soon after we began to fear it for those of the Isle of Celebes being great Pyrates happened to have a Vessel of theirs come in sight of us by the first approach of day whether driven that way by the force of the Storm or by their own uncertain rowings in search of Prize I know not but in short made up to us and soon took us and with us sail'd home to Tominec of which City they were And being come thither by the ornaments of our Flesh they perceived we were of the Royal Family and therefore presented us to the King who being a haughty proud Man had no regard to our Birth and Quality but despising us in our present misfortune used us like Slaves but he had cast an Eye of regard on my Sister whose Beauty indeed was extraordinary and daily solicited her to yield to his embraces which with some little opportunities she yielded to and was delivered from the troubles of a Captivity to live a Queen as she was born a Princess But now neither Nature nor Honour made her remember her Parents or Brother preferring a little pet she had taken against us to all the duties of a Child and Sister she rather contributed to our Misery than sought us any relief which soon broke the heart of her Father and Mother to whom I took care with my own hands to give a Decent tho' not Royal Burial But before I proceed to tell you the misfortunes of my Love it would be some ease to me to breath a little and to give you some account of the place of my Captivity where I was not confin'd as I am here from sight of the Country Tominec therefore is the Name of a City and Kingdom in the Isle of Celebes which Island is very large and rich the Soil thereof exceeding fertile the People tall and comely of a curious Ruddy Colour much given to Piracy The whole Island is Governed by many Kings and with as many Gods which is the cause of much Contention and many Quarrels The People of the Kingdom of Tominec have very little notion of a Deity so that you will find no tract of Religion among them Sacrifices and Prayers they know not They say the Earth is their Indulgent Mother who furnishes them with all things necessary for Life yet they are not contented with that but seek the increase of their Wealth as Slaves by Piracy If any one discourse to them about a God and the Mysteries of Religion they answer as if they thought it a Jest Friend thou art very eloquent and subtile I wish I could talk as well as thee Nay they say sometimes that if they should be perswaded by such Discourses their Neighbours would laugh at them yet for all this they have a Natural sentiment of some Divinity