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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

the River the town is ill built The ayr is good on Coromandel side and is divided but by a little streight not much longer then Gibraltar but more dangerous because the waves raise banks of sand which make it the more dangerous for vessels of great burthen forced to enter the Isle on the other side called Betala or the pearl-fishing Zeilan is held to be the ancient Taprobane and others with more reason say she was anciently called Sumatra however this Isle hath ever been potent formerly governed by one King of the race of the Sun or at least from thence he pretended himself descended This King was dethroned by one of Jafanapatan and since the country hath been divided into several kingdomes The Portuguais warred with the King of Jafanapatan who overthrown was constrained to deliver up the Isle of Manar which they fortified and inhabit to this day the Christians were grievously oppressed by the Badages their neighbours barbarous people great thieves but the Portuguese subdued them at last In this invasion the Portuguese amongst other things took that famous Idol made of the tooth of a Monkey adored by all the Indians of those parts and enriched with Jewels The King of Pegu so highly esteemed it that he sent yearly Ambassadours thither to take the print of it upon Amber Musk and other perfumes which he had great reverence unto and since it was taken he offered to redeem it at a great rate but they christian-like chose rather to destroy that Idolatry then to reap a profit thereby and so they burnt it and from it there came a most stinking and black smoak They relate many fables of that white Monky named Hanimam that he had been a God expelled heaven for some fault committed and Metamorphosed into a Monkey coming from the land of Badages or thence into Ceitan where after his death he was adored and his tooth kept as a relique The sea between the Cape Comori the lower Chilao and the Isle Zelan was called Pescaria Delle Perse a place of pearl-fishing which lasts about 50. days and at the point where they begin to fish upon a sudden many Cabbins and Booths are erected to last during the fishing onely then they that can dyne and fill their bagges with oysters and by a rope tyed about their middle are pulled up again and every fisher makes his own heap The seasons are not alwayes favourable alike some more some lesse and some seasons very dangerous by reason of several fishes that devour the fishers and other fishes will crop off a thigh or arme of a man as close and even as a hangar and those the Portugais call Poccaspada this fish hath two rowes of teeth very sharp and long and therefore to prevent the danger they have Magicians that charme the fishes upon a time a fisher-man ready to be devoured by a fish had his mouth open and within two fingers of reaching him suddenly the Wisard who was present cryed out Veruas which signifies come out or charm and the fish left him and the man having a sword in his hand struck a blow or two and the fish swam away leaving the Sea dy'd with his blood At night when they go to rest they dissolve their charmes because no one should venture to fish There are certain Commissioners to set a rate upon the pearle according to the season and there are of fine sorts of pearls some like stars others half stars others called Pedrati which are much esteemed and divided into five parts The Merchants stand in order to buy them The Portugese have those of greatest price which they call Quercos the Bengalians the seconds the Canaranians the thirds the Cambayans have the smallest and the last which are of little worth fall to the Jewes there which they polish for deceit It is a gallant sight to see so many Merchants together and so many heaps of pearles before every Cabbin which within few dayes are all pull'd down The best pearl is fished in the Channel of Setin near to Zeilan where they use flat-bottome boats called Tune because they have little bottome some are gotten at the other side of Chilao between Manar and the Continent There is no pearl to be found in all the East except in this place and at Baharem in the Persick gulph and the Isle Aynan near China those taken at Baharem are bigger but they are taken here in greater number The whole Coast of Malabar from Comori fifty leagues in length or thereabouts inhabited by people called Paravians is much frequented for this fishing where fifty or three score thousand Merchants resort to that purpose The Paravians are Christians and were instructed by St. Francis Ilaverius and live under the protection of the Portuguesse who have protected them from the Tyranny of the Mahometans their neighbours South-west of the Isle of Zeilan are the Maldives many in number dangerous to Saylers for the shelves of sand and rocks I will say no more of them because my knowledge is but small besides they have amply and exactly been described by others but I will say something of a wonderfull Isle on the Coast of Malduce Southward some ten degrees remote from the Line and called Patovi or Polovis now deserte though formerly inhabited and flourishing which as I learnt since at Pegu was Governed by a Prince called Argiac a Potent King of many Ilands and Kingdomes he having many children by severall wives gave this Island to one of the gallantest amongst them called Abdenac for his portion with several Treasures this Abdenac was possest of it peaceably for five yeares space his elder brother called Argiac after their Father and King of Achez in Sumatra refused him the share of Treasure his father had left him the other enraged craved the assistance of the King of Bengala who furnished him with ships with which he invaded his brother burnt his Townes and put to death most part of his followers but received a mortall wound himself and returning into his Island with the Treasures he had regained of his brother and finding himself near death distributed his wealth and bequeathed his Island to be inherited by his Duma or evill spirit intreating him to preserve it till the day of Judgement and that he then hoped to return into the World This Will made he dyed and had no other sepulchre then the bowells of his Alliance and Friends according to the Custome of that Countrey where in many places they eat the dead flesh of their Kindered and near Relations perswading themselves the Soule to be sooner at rest then if they permitted the corpes to putrifie and to be consumed by the wormes and that there could be no Sepulchre so Honourable as the bowells of a deare friend This Island falling to the devils share he became so turbulent that from the very time he took possession the Island was not