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A49883	The world surveyed, or The famous voyages & travailes of Vincent le Blanc, or White, of Marseilles ... containing a more exact description of several parts of the world, then hath hitherto been done by any other authour : the whole work enriched with many authentick histories / originally written in French ; and faithfully rendred into English by F.B., Gent.; Voyages fameux. English	Leblanc, Vincent, 1554-ca. 1640.; Brooke, Francis.	1660 (1660)	Wing L801; ESTC R5816	408,459	466

they burn nothing but the liver with aromatick odours and pulverizing the bones mix it with their holy waters When they would have any sacrifices brought to their Idol they go about the Town ringing a Bell made like a Still and say this is to supplicate for some of their friends who are tormented in the black shades for as to those which immitted into other bodies as of oxen or cows there to be kept till the day of judgement they hold them well quartered and to have no need of prayers For this cause the Peguans had a custome to eat none of these sorts of flesh as in Malabar and other places but since such time as their Duma in a vision gave precept to one of their Chaouris to use all living beasts indifferently and that a soule condemned to the body of one beast when that dyed passed into the body of another they have made no further difficulty to eat it For such beasts they have a reverence and bow to them as they would salute a friend They have a sort of small Asses that come from the Province of Beluacarin almost all red and black or black and white which they hunt and take with hayes like Conies and being brought to hand serve for many uses but are of low price by reason they hold soules never enter them their flesh is so faint and disagreeable we met with heards of them in the Champian which appeared to be tame suffering one to come so near as to lay hand on their neck when on a suddain they sprung away like Munkeys and returned about a quarter of an hour after They are not so courtly to them as to other beasts for the opinion the Priests have put in them and as we in derision would salute them they would reprove us and tell us their great Duma had commanded Fotoque to curse the generation of Asses and the soules that should take up habitation in them They have likewise many other Gods as that they call the god of atomes in the Sun and others Hell they call the dark cavern of the house of smoak where a horrible Serpent devoures soules and whence one of their gods frees them by his power In a word 't is stupendous to consider the number of gods and Idols in their severall temples their Monasteries Priests Monks Hermits Sects Sacrifices c. Their belief likewise of the Creation of the world is strange and of the sin of the first man all disfigured with a thousand fables For in the year 1557. a Cordelier one Bonfer a Frenchman being at Goa moved with a pious vocation went to preach the Gospel in these parts and going to San Thomas and thence by Sea to Port Cosmin and Pegu did what could be done by Sermon to impresse the faith in these people but with small effect they were so hardned so as after some sufferings he was constrained to return from whence he went He learnt that 't is held the Peguans descended originally from certain Jews sometimes banished and by Salomon condemned to work in the mines of Ophir that they believed an infinity of successive worlds to all eternity innumerable gods receding respectively to the diverse worlds and lyable to death at last That men having passed thorough all sorts of animalls at last became Gods and that these Soules after many ages being purified in certain appointed places and having returned diverse times into these new worlds at last were placed some in Paradise others in Hell and some reduced to Niban that is nothing and a thousand other dreams After this Cordelier came the Jesuites with better successe by means of some signal services they did them in certain popular maladies they were infected with As amongst others Father Andrew of the society at the time that an epidemical pestilence destroyed innumerable people in Pegu a Christian Townsman came and besought his intercession for his family that was wholly infected and the Father demanding wherefore he had not caused his wife and children to be baptized he answered he had such a real intention but that their Pagode had prohibited him and that his wife would not permit it but threatned if he forced Baptisme upon her or hers she would publish his obsequies according to custom and marry another which excuse the Father took for some satisfaction and at his supplications the people were cured Whereupon many more repaired to him for the same cause but he would not grant them any such assistances but upon engagement to receive Baptisme which their Priests vigorously sought to hinder telling them 't were better to dy of that malady then be damned by the cure of Baptisme These Indians amongst other superstitions which they have derived by corruption from Christianisme they have one exceeding remarkable which is that once a year they make a solemn communion Having immolated a white sheep and mingled the blood with meal they call Agricar on the day of the great feast of Duma they give it to the whole congregation in form of a heart with exhortations and remonstrance that this which they take is the blood of their God and upon that day strangers are not admitted to celebrate the solemnity but on the morrow they are received and before they communicate a Sermon is made to excite them to devotion telling them their God receives them into his alliance embraces them as his children to whom he gives his grace by meanes of the blood they have taken Behold how they transform and prophane what they have been heretofore taught of the Mystery of the Paschal lamb and the Eucharist In Mexica and Peru they have likewise confession and Communion after their manner But they have another sort of sacrifice yet more strange that is they buy a slave of a high price of thirty yeares age beautiful sound and jolly and having washed him in a lake or other water three mornings by the rising of the Sun they cloath him in a white gown keep him fourty dayes and shew him to the people telling them this is the innocent that must be sacrificed for the sins of the people Then every one brings presents to him and with humility beseeches him to remember them when he shall come before the great God All this while they take a heedful care he escape not giving him good cheer and Areca Every morning for the fourty dayes when they shew him they beat a kind of Pan and melodiously play on flutes doleful and pathetical straines to excite devotion in which conset every one beares a part that he may be mindful of them Thirty dayes expired the ten Priests called Gaica persons of veneration and antiquity habited like the Victim come to advertise him that within ten days he goes to inhabit with the great God and observe diligently if his countenance change at the sound of death and take it for an ominous augury if he shew the least fear For which cause on

his only pastime every January when their summer drawes near for at Pegu and all other places under the Tropick and the Torrid Zone winter begins in May because of the disordinate raines which fall from that Moneth to the end of August that is their winter their Summer begins with our Autumne and lasts all our winter moneths for other reasons and 't is the same in Cochin-China where they have three moneths winter and nine summer to visit his Tortoyses which he calls Elisar he drawes out of the ponds those of the highest colours and he keeps fishermen to that purpose only and which case them so gently of their shells that they do not die and within three yeares their shells are as well grown and as bright as before and thus they last 15 or 20 yeares at that age they turned red and their shels are of a good colour for three yeares when the King hath a mind to eat of them they cut off their heads and five dayes after they are prepared and yet after those five dayes they are alive as we have often experienced In those ponds there is a certain male animall whose skin is gray and silver coloured wherewith they cover their furniture This animal is a great multiplyer and is called Asoufa like our sea Calfe and as bigg as a small mule and much esteemed amongst them They have another kind whereof they make bucklars and coats of Armor no steele will pierce them they are so strong and hardned The King himself and his foure white Elephants in war time are Armed with those skins but covered over with slight silke stuffes Those Elephants are exceeding strong the King takes great content to be drawn upon a Telanzin which is a kind of litter but with four wheeles One day I heard him command his Nangin or chiefe Coachman to make his Telanzin ready desirous to take the aire Two of the Elephants being brought forth to be shewen the Prince Souac he praised them to be two of the strongest in the World he let one of them loose out of his hand that took up the litter with all belonging thereunto as wheeles and draughts in his teeth and carried it before the Prince and set it softly down as if it had been a small weight and yet it was 500. weight This action so highly pleased pleased the King that he commanded that ten pound of sugar should be added to his dayly allowance Their chiefest food is rice boiled in milk made up in balls and they have dayly fifty pounds to their portions besides they are turned into the fields and feed upon sycamore leaves and other pleasing leaves they love cooleness and bathe in those ponds they are subject to the bloody flux and heat is very troublesom to them When the waters are not high enough to cover them they lie down and tumble their naturall discretion is such that they never mingle with females before company they go two years with their young and live two hundred 'T is a beast highly valued by all Easterne Princes and are very serviceable They are taken thorough the whole Empire of Pegu and beyond the river Savara at Bremu Ava Bengala and Malaca The King of Pegu because he hath such a number of Elephants is surnamed Quiber Sencal Jasel that is the grand Monarch of Elephants In the palme Forrest neer to new Pegu they set their snares to catch those beasts 'T is a very pretty sight to see a tame female lead a wild male thorough the streets when he sees himself fast and caught he condoles himself with many fearfull cries and emulations and sometimes striking furiously upon pillars wherewith the houses are susteined breaks his teeth and having sufficiently tormented himself all in water being sensible of the heat of that water which lies in his belly he thrusts his trunk into his mouth or throat and drawes up all the water that smells extreamly and is boyling hot Then with goades and pricks they force him into a dungeon where in five or six dayes he is tamed with the female When they are tame they are lodged in a Princely roome painted over with imagary and forrest work and are fed in silver the King esteems them the strength of his Army they are richly attired and eat bread they are fed with severall sorts of corn or grain boyled as barly rice lupins and others they love fruit but care neither for flesh nor sish The King delights himselfe to see them monthly exercised in Battalia richly harnessed marching ten of breast the Captain marches in the head armed with a Crocodile skin covered over with a cloath of gold his forehead peece of the same the riders cloathed in cloath of gold upon a green ground with a lance and a lyons skin hanging thereat even with the Captain march twelve Negroes women young and cloathed in Indian gownes of many colours with drums handsomely painted they leap and dance before the Elephants making many grimoces and ridiculous gesticulations their faces painted red and violet when the Elephants go to war they weare the skin onely with bars of steele over their trunks and are richly trapped upon their festivalls a squadron of a thousand Elephants well managed follow the Captain next the Kings Throne or State with his children thereon high and exalted like a Ganopy drawn by those famous white ones followed by many Nobles mounted on others with silken bridles all this is accompanied with Trumpets flutes and other instruments at which sound they leap and dance and seeme to take great content and between times they march with a gravity becoming a rationall creature I remember that in this solemnity a base fellow crossed the street before the Royal Throne the beasts stopt suddenly and could not be driven on till the Criminal was brought unto them who expected death a tosse or two at the least They gazing upon one another scorned to touch him one of the riders beat the fellow sorely with his bridle Their Governour told them with fair words that they had done an act worthy themselves the beasts satisfied continued their march I saw a mighty big one presented to the King of Pegu by him of Siam his Tributary The King immediately commanded meat to be brought him to know his breeding for the best bred eat with great modesty but he that brought him said that if he had drink he could live without food he that had the charge of the rest either for scorne or to disparage the beast's nature brought him water in a foule vessell the Elephant gave him a disdainfull look and putting his tronk into his mouth spouted a great quantity of stinking and hot water upon the Masters head who returned him a blow with a staff upon the head the Elephant immediately killed him with his tronk The King admired his prudence and caused him water to be brought in a clean silver vessell and bought him harnesse most rich and magnificent they are