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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

lay and are very fruitfull They have a custom every evening to stay an houre in the water then to call them out to seat they have an usual signe which they readily observe They are very good meat and delicious The nature of them is that turn them into a ground sowed with Mil or Rice they will most strangely pull up all the weedes by the root without touching the grain The grain they call Taffin is like our Millet and hath a leaf like a reed which these birds will in no sort meddle with whether for aversion or other cause They are very cheap we had two for a halfe fanon which is no more then two pence with us and are as big as a hen and very fat We found them to be excellent meat we bought more of them my Companion and I for our recreation walking by the river side to turn them into such grounds to see them cull and pluck up the no cent hearbs We were considering how to transport of the eggs into France and specially to Arlids a corn Countrey where they are at so great charge in weeding but making tryall of them in a ground sowed with Chiza which in other places is called Moussa a sort of round beanes but twice as big as ours and of the same taste only the skin more thick and hard of chesnut colour the leaf flat but we found they eat the corn and let the weeds stand so we learnt of the Indians these birds are not weeders for all grains For two Fanons which in our money amounts not to eight pence one may sometimes buy a hundred they take paines from morning till night without intermission and cost little the keeping In other parts of India we saw another sort of a different colour drawing towards green and gray called Artipan serving for that use and others For in November they Mue and cast all their feathers with which the Inhabitants stuffe cushions and pillowes of Coco mats to sit and sleep upon to cover their Country houses for lattices and diverse other things they are so large they eat all sorts of vermin flesh and fish In this Town of Mandranella an Indian of good quality frequented our company and often eat with us bringing of his Countrey fruits with him of whom I demanded one day if he made no scruple we being Ramata so they call the Portugues and all Christians on this side to eat with us since the greater part of the Indians esteem themselves polluted by it But he told us no and that their three headed God Fotoco was esteemed a friend to the Franques Ramata and that one of them had brought a Sanacarin or image of the Virgin as they terme it which their great Oysima had honoured with such high vertues and attributes that it had the priviledg to make the third head of their Fotoco for which reason this God hath ever since been the most accomplished the greatest and highest of all to whose excelsitude none can attain and that the day will come when he shall judge all the other Gods for abusing his faithful people but for being cruell to the wicked that they shall be quit of In Cambaya likewise they adore a triple headed God and say the God the first cause of all things had three children on whom he conferred his Divinity and that they had all but one will In Tazatay likewise they have the same God with three heads which they say is three Gods united in one In other places they adore a fowle which they hold to be the Holy Spirit of God and many things of like sort by which may be seen these poore Indians have heretofore had some Doctrine of the blessed Trinity and other Mysteries of our Religion but they have confounded all with fables and imaginations The Bramins themselves to signify this weare three cords tyed on one knot and a cross on others CHAP. XXXIV Of the Kingdom of Casubi their Religion FRom Mandranella we went to Casubi both a Kingdom and a Town sometime subject to the King of Bengala where we first discovered a most high mountain and then the Town and drawing nearer we perceived abundance of lighted torches and a multitude of people We stayed to observe the matter and saw some bring the body of a Tree which immediately was laid in the ground with lime and ciment attended with women clothed in red jackets as low as the girdle and a cotton ski●t thence to the foot in which colour they likewise were cloathed that carried the Tree in which was enclosed a Corps wrapt in linnen and aromatically imbalmed with mastick and other drugs that prevent corruption then laid in this Coffin and covered with the same timber and fastned with pins of the same all pargetted over within and without with mastick frankincense and bitumen Forty dayes they spend in feasting over the sepulchre near to which there is a booth built of purpose to dress and season the Viands with Aromaticks that they say the soule of the deceased may sent the prefume They go then before their Pagode or Idol without weeping because they think the dead all go streight to heaven These fourty dayes terminated they employ fourty more in erecting a Piramis made sillily enough of earth and water but as high as a Tower proportionable to the elevation of the person This done the wife of the deceased all alone retires to her house for fourty dayes more incessantly weeping for her husband her kindred mean while supplying her with all necessaries for she would sooner be her own death then go forth to demande any thing During these six score dayes there is continual treaty of a new marriage for the widow who is led forth in a delicate virgin garment accompanied with other delicate young dames that make a set to play at tennis or ball made of a spungy Ciment that bounds higher then one filled with wind The women affect it much more then men and use this game to get them husbands by their agility and addresse While we were in this Country there was one who after she had ended her widow Ceremonies was found dead in her bed by having slept upon an hearb called Sapony absolutely mortall to such as lie on it The Town of Casubi is faire great and of good traffick The men are of good stature something tawny the women very beautiful and kind well apparelled of blith and jolly humour their garments are something lascivious for being cut and open their skin is seen and discovered the aire there is likewise temperare enough The Town is environed with high mountains garnished with pure fountains and fruit of all sorts chiefly quinces of the largest size and the most kindly of any other part of the east they call them Goncha here grew likewise excellent grapes the same as at Aleppo which they bag up in sacks made of Coco cloth and load and

wine They walked by us upon the River Bank and desired us we would stay and drink with them mean while one of them wrote a note to the Lord of Casima whereupon when we were arrived he ordered us very noble accommodation sent us divers sorts of fruits and a dozen of rabbets black and white exceeding small but of excellent taste With great courtesie he offered us any thing we had use of and on the morrow he invited us to dinner in his garden called the Motochon which word is vulgar Greek though used in Nubia This garden was made at the Princes charge with great art full of abundance of trees graffed with several kindes one above another which to the eye is delightful to see several variety upon the same stock as amongst others two several sorts of figs. The like I have seen in the Isle of Chio and at Zaure at the Convent of S. Francis for there on the one side I have seen fruit ripening on the other side fruit decayed and rotten out of which corruption certain knats take life which immediately go and peck the others which makes them presently perish which otherwise would endure for ever an admirable thing in nature neverthelesse most true There were besides certain trees which bear nuts as bigge as Estridge egges full of cotton as fine as silke There were other sorts of fruit which I never saw but there and one amongst the rest leav'd like the Siccamore with fruit like the golden apple but no gall more bitter and within five kernels as big as Almonds the juyce whereof is sweet as sugar betwixt the shell and the nut there growes a thick skin of Carnation colour which taken before it be throughly ripe they preserve with Date-vinegar and makes an excellent sweet meat which they present to the King as a great curiosity Another tree bears of the finest sort of Lacque for Painters Also they sow here Orient Auil or Indico an hearb that makes a dye of great price whereof they make great traffick and profit Besides they have another grain from which they draw an excellent oyle beyond that of Cinamon which they use for restoration of the spirits Then they have a tree like a Pomegarnat which bears a most soveraign balme as I have had the experience for I brought one of these nuts from thence which I had of this Governour in truck for a Turquese wherewith I did great cures amongst my friends I should never conclude if I should write but half the curiosities of this garden where there is a collection of all the Oriental singularities But that which seemed of all most rare and artificial was two hands of transparent Marble at the Fortal which held a bow bent when any one knock't at the gate the hands discharged arrowes upon them but the arrovves had no piles and the danger vvas not great all this done by springs dexterously set on vvork The beauty and excellence of this garden stay'd us tvvo vvhole dayes here in contemplation of the rarities In fine we took our leave of this worthy Lord whom they called Lebetera and bent our course for Misan through which vve vvere to enter Nubia a kingdom vvhich confronts the Deserts of Goran Egypt Ganga and Borno the bounds of Preste Johns Empire vvhich confines on that side on Nubia and Egypt We crossed many countries in a short space because Nile is more rapid and svvift here then in any other part for having reunited all his vvaters and meeting sometimes vvith open plain countries vvhere he spreads himself at length and breadth sometimes vvith rocks and mountains vvhich gird and straighten him he cannot so properly be said to glide or run as to precipitate himself headlong with falls that make such noyse it deafens the people round about There are the Cataracts so celebrated in antiquities the great and the lesse not far above the ancient Townes Elephantina and Siena or Asna CHAP. XVIII A prodigious History of a young Abissin Prince by name Joel by enchantment transformed into an Ape AS we passed along Nile in our Bark entertaining the day with various discourses one shewed me a book of many prodigious histories and amongst others this of Prince Joel of whom I had heretofore heard at Pegu where the story is represented in a Tapistry of the Kings after this manner In Janamira a Province of Ethiopia there lived a Prince called Rostan Sofar otherwise Fafarin who by a first wife had a son named Alarin Sofar but usually called Joel and by a second wife two Aman Sofar and another whose name I know not Not long before his death he made his will and left to Joel his eldest sonne his principial dominion and all his treasure betwixt the other two he divided the rest of his dominions The guardian-ship of young Joel he committed to a friend to whom he discovered the place where the greatest part of his treasure lay hid which he had inclosed in a stone that was laid in the bowels of a wall Three dayes after his decease this friend dyes with grief so as the treasure together with Joels person were left in the power of Rostans widow Joels step-mother who ambitious the succession should come to her own children out of a frantick malice resolved to send Joel upon a specious pretence far enough from his Palace to a sister of hers a most powerful Magician who to raze out all remembrance of him should by vertue of charms transform him to an Ape giving out that he was lost and could by no means be heard of They say the work was executed after this manner This Sorceresse was blind but on the Sabbath that darknesse left her and she could see as others do a On a Sabbath day she took Joel with her to sacrifice to Sathan and do him such homage as his professed servants use to do But he refusing to perpetrate such abhominable duties to the Prince of darknesse she resolved to dispatch him by murther but again moved to compassion by the gracious sweetnesse in his face she changed her designe She composed a Bath wherein she put him and by power of her inchantmens transformed him to an exceeding pretty and tractable Ape superinducing an Apes skin over his humane shape so abstracting his reason and sence that little more remained in him then was proportionable to a meer sensual creature notwithstanding which a knowledge was something more perfect though he had not the use of articulate speech and with a marvellous addresse to render those little services to them of the family who cherished him and fancied him exceedingly The deplorable Prince lived divers years in this condition at length he made his escape into the woods where he suffered great acerbities and often perplexed with illusions of the devill but was still assisted by an extraordinary flame of grace and the vigilancy of his guardian Angell who for his consolation appeared to him sometimes in the form of a dove