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A03066	Some yeares travels into divers parts of Asia and Afrique Describing especially the two famous empires, the Persian, and the great Mogull: weaved with the history of these later times as also, many rich and spatious kingdomes in the orientall India, and other parts of Asia; together with the adjacent iles. Severally relating the religion, language, qualities, customes, habit, descent, fashions, and other observations touching them. With a revivall of the first discoverer of America. Revised and enlarged by the author.; Relation of some yeares travaile	Herbert, Thomas, Sir, 1606-1682.; Marshall, William, fl. 1617-1650, engraver.	1638 (1638)	STC 13191; ESTC S119691	376,722	394

their teeth and tongues are mortally venemous the other parts eaten without hurt If ere the Salamander hap to bite thee Thy coffin and thy winding sheet invite thee Si mordu t' a une Arissade Pren's ton linceul é la flassade We have said enough let my vale-dictum now be this the Land mournes to see it selfe so trod upon by a people strangers to God and vertue concealing such usefull treasures and making unusefull so many ports obscured farre beyond her meriting seated so advantagiously for traffique with all the world both the Indies possible to be awed by her and vicinating those golden countries of Mozambiq ' Quiloa Soffala Mombassa Magadoxa and other parts of Aegisimba proffering also many petty Ilands under her as those of Cumrho Primero Mascarenas Castle I le Moritius Dygarrois and Englands Forrest environing and in a sort defending her upon occasions Mozambique Vndique dant saltus multaque aspergine rorant Emerguntque itetum redeuntque sub aequora rursus Inque chori ludunt speciem lascivaque jactant Corpora acceptum patulis mare maribus efflant On every side they leap and dew their fyn Advance from Sea and bathe againe therein In sport and measur'd dances nimbly fling Themselves whilst seas do from their nostrils spring Six leagues North-East from the last land we discried another Ile full of Palmeto trees the current here set us 20 leagues forward in 24 houres the latitude of this Ile 16 degrees and a halfe longitude 21 degrees and 28 min. thus shaped Castle Iland The 7 of September we discried land it prov'd Meortey one of the Iles of Chumro seated at the North end of Madagascar It rises very high to the East as we sailed by it mounts in a piramid and views far into the Ocean It s latitude is 12 degr 56 min. South and longitude 23 degr 59 min. in this shape profering it selfe unto my Table book Meottys Ile These Iles call'd the Iles of Cumro be 5 either because Chumro or Cumr-yne the Welshmens Ile is greater than the rest or that it was first discovered named Cumro Meottis Ioanna Mohelia Gazidia by others thus St. Iohn di Castro Spirito Sancto Sancto Christofero Anguzezia and Mayotto each of them excellent for refreshing passengers abounding with delicate fruit and such cattell as are had at easie prices none of them are above a hundred miles about yet very populous and full of natures blessings Chumro is the highest and best land but branded with the most subtle and bloody Savages Ioanna has courteous people and such as readily help strangers in necessity It lately obeyed a Queen rectrix much commended for sagacity but now submits to a King who tho tyrannicall yet better so as Tacitus protests than be anarchicall to these Iles we sent our boates ashoare intending to ride at Mohelia and returned with Oxen and Buffolls Goats and variety of Fruits all which were very heartily wellcomed And tho our Randezvous be now in sight suffer me whiles in memory to tell you of a fish or 2 which in these seas were obvious The Sea Tortoise is not much differing from those at land her house or shell is only flatter Sea Tortoyse by overturning them they are easily taken disabled then to sinck or help themselves some we tooke for pastime more than food they taste waterish and inforce fluxes they superabound in eggs in those we took every one having neere 2000 pale and round but never made hard though extremely boyled some eat them and the flesh or fish as you please to call it but by the Leviticall law it was forbidden and tho our religion consists not in ceremonies ending in the prototipe our Saviour yet except famine or novelty so invite mee with such cates my pallat craves not to be refreshed The Mannatee is good meat and from their using the shoare have a fleshie taste resembling in shew and eating Veale Mannaty a strange fish the intralls differing little from a Cow and from whom in respect of its phisnomy some new name her her face is like a Buffolos her eyes small and round hard gums in stead of teeth the stone generated in the head is most valuable soveraigne against choler adust the stone chollick and dissentery so it be beat small infus'd in wine and drunk fasting the body of this fish is commonly 3 yards long and one broad slow in swimming wanting fins in their place ayded with 2 paps which are not only suckles but stilts to creep a shoare upon such time shes grazes where shes sleep long sucking the coole Ayre unable contrary to other watery inhabitants to be halfe an houre under water are famoused like Lizards for their love to man whose face they delight to look upon and in weaknesse have refreshed them tho most unhappy to our Captaine Andrew Evans who by striking one at the Moritius with his harping-iron and leaping into the sea to make short work with his steletto was so crusht that he dyed shortly after as I speak in our description of St. Helena were we intombed him The Carvel The Carvell is a meere sea fome every where floating upon the surface of the Ocean of a globous forme like so many lines throwing abroad her strings which she can spread at pleasure angling for small fishes which she captivates at leisure a sea spider she may be cal'd for when she sees her webb too weak she can blow an infectious breath foming death or such a sting as if she had borrowed it from the Scorpion We are now ready to cast Anchor hopefull of fresh refreshment September the eleventh we rode in five and twenty fadoms the ensuing morne wafting neerer shoare dropping it againe in seventeene fathoms at the West side of Mohelia a bow shot from a small scatter'd village of straw unworthy a name yet called Meriangwy governed by a Sha-bander Alicusary by name a blacke big-bon'd knave savage in shew but slie and crafty in curtesie and bartring Mohelyae pars Insulae Mohelia elevates the Pole Antartick twelve degrees fifteene minutes has longitude from the Meridian of the Cape of good Hope foure and twenty degrees and variation of the Compasse 16 degrees 20 minutes is about threescore miles in circuit from Cumroh South East 14 leagues and from Ioannae East and by South about 10 the Marittim places rising gently the inland woody and mountanous a little village here and there scattered the houses are of reeds and straw fitted to the heat of such a torrid climate Moella some pronounce it Molala others and worst of all one Best thinking the derivation would carry it Mal-Ilha or bad Ile an incongruity that from his ill judgement so sweet and usefull a place should be defamed From Madagascar it is removed about 50 leagues from Quiloa in the Africk continent sixty the Inhabitants are a mixture of Gentiles and Mahomitans the Portugall has preacht Christ but have few Proselites some fragments of their language take thus

the Empresse of all the Ilands in the Vniverse MADAGASCAR so called by the Natives by Ptolomy Menuthyas by M. Paulus Venetus Magaster by Thevetus Albagra by Marcator Do Cerne both unwisely by Tristan d' Acuna the Portuguise who discovered it Anno Dom. 1508. Saint Lawrence that day he first veiwed it howbeit I find great difference in Spanish writers about the first that landed here Some saying that Emanuel Telezo de Menezes anchor'd here two yeere before d' Acuna and Osorius in his 4. lib. de vitae Emanuelis reg port fo 140. saies that Fernando Suario and Roderigo Frierio two Marriners in two Ships returning from India to Lisbon Anno 1506. accidentally fell upon this I le and suffered from the trechery of the savage inhabitants and that in honor of Lawrence sonne of Almeida the Admirall and Commander of all the Forts in India from his name named it but in his 5. book fol. 162. that D' Acuna named it Let us now a shoare our observation may prove more consequentious Madagascar that name sounds best is questionlesse the greatest Iland in the world accounting its extent from Cape Roma in the South to point Saint Sebastian from 16 to six and twenty degrees the North end parralelling Cuama in Quiloa a famous part of the Africk continent and to the South the great River of Magnice in 26 degrees in length a thousand English miles some report 1200. in breadth in some part 230. Osorius numbers 400. and a hundred where 't is narrowest full of Townes People Mineralls Beasts Wood Water and what 's requirable Such Marittim townes and ports as be knowne to us are these Roma Augustine Antabosta St. Iacobo Matatana Angoda Ferendo Fermoso Anton-gill and Iungomar the 2. last almost opposite Augustine under the South Tropick and Anton-gill upon the East side affoord best anchoring the first we usually ride in passing to Surat the other home bound is best as Sir Iames Lancaster Anno 1600. made proofe of in 8. fadom water in the bottome of the Bay a small I le behind them to sea ozie ground the place good for victualling ayre quick and healthfull Howbeit the Dutch at this place 2. moneths formerly through distempers lost 200. men of agues and fluxes the variation at Augustine Bay is 16. degrees The whole I le is Tetrarchicall 4. severall Kings swaying their Ebony Scepters in each Toparchy jealous each of one anothers greatnesse The Sea townes are infected with Mahometisme the Mediterran are eclips'd in black Idolatry Nature has given them lawes murder being punisht by death adultery with publique shame and theft with banishment Fishing delights them more than tillage Thetis is better accounted of then Ceres yet I rather think their ignorance in agriculture so disposes it The people are generally strong couragious and proper the male sort from their infancy practising the rude postures of Mars cover their naked bodies with long and massie Targets their right hand brandishing a long neat pike or lance of Ebony barb'd with iron kept as bright as silver and which they know how to use and jaculate as excellently as any people in the Universe they are black at no time shading their bodies from the parching Sunne rather delight to rub and annoint all over with grease and tallow proud to see their flesh shine the stinck never offending them their haire is black and long and curled the length is an especiall ornament a few leaves plaited about their waists elsewhere naked their eares are bor'd and wide enough pincking and cutting the flesh is here also in fashion whiles the better sex seeke prey abroad the women therein like themselves keep constant home and spin bigamy is tolerated they affect copulation very early the youth scarce knowing 12. the maiden 10. yeeres in the world the name Virginity They are delighted with sports and novelties hunting hawking fishing of which the I le affoords variety and dancing in Maeanders winding beating and clapping their breasts and hands their feete spurning the yeelding fands forcing the spectators further of during which the women with savage harmony modulate with hands and eyes observing an exact measure equall if not exceed the men in their more laborious treadings They know not letters Arts are burdensome to idle savages they compleat that jeere of Sophocles Nihil scire nil jucundius howbeit necessity has taught them some parts of the rudiments of Arithmetick the number 10. limits their invention Isso 1. Tone 2. Tello 3. Effad 4. Fruto 5. Woubla 6. Sidda 7. Fonlo 8. Malo 9. Nel 10. The earth is rich in myneralls and merquisate Gold Silver and as Edoard Lopezo Iron and Copper but by hearing the cruelty and avarice of the Portugall prohibit the use and digging it contenting themselves rather with usefull hearbs and graine of which they have great store than by the Magique of gold and pearle to allure the hearts of greedy men a vice the Portugall is more branded with than any other Nation Nec Babylonis opes Lydae nec pondera gazae Indorumque dapes Saerumque Arabumque potentes Divitias mallim cum paupertate pudica Intemerata mori quam famam impendere vitae Not Croesus wealth nor Babels vast command India Arabia nor of Saeres land Can speake me rich or happy if with them I throw away my more price worthy fame But if you will buy any thing the I le affoords I think the I le it selfe you must furnish you with Agats Helitropians Iasper and which they value more than all the Dyamonds and pearles in India with long red Cornelian beades of which they are so proud that the owner be it King or subject is oft dethroned spoyled for it one string able to put them all in a cumbustion bracelets copper chaines bells and babies are valuable also here and for which or one bead of cornelion you shall have in exchange Sheep big tail'd like those in Syria and Persia Beeves and Buffoles big-bond fat and Camel-backt Camells Antilopes red Deere Leopards Pards Goats Milk Hens Egges Wheat Barley Rice and Cuscus with what fruit yon like Orenges Lemons Lymes Pomcitrons Plantans Sugercanes Ginger Toddy Cocoes c. Nor are the Lyzards Camelion and Salamanders to bee lost in oblivion The Camelion the hyeroglyphic of a dissembler take thus from Alciat She alwayes gapes she eates the slender Ayre Changing her lookes she varies colours rare Even so the Flatterer applauding feeds Clawing his Princes most opprobrious deeds Semper hiat semper tenuem qua vescitur Auram Et mutat faciem varios sumitque colores Sic adulator populari vescitur Aura Et solum Mores imitatur principis atros The Salamander is in shape not much unlike extreame cold by nature from whence like Ice she can long time indure the fire yea if little extinguish flames The Salamander endures fire without danger Seu Salamandra potens Nullisque ob noxia flammis commonly obscuring themselves in moyst and umbragious places seene against stormes

that the Hypodrome the body of the great Mydan was an old famous place for view of horses if that content not I must ingeniously confesse I think this City was never named Hecatompylon such a one I know there was famoused in many Authors but by observing the position 37 degrees 50 minutes in Ptolomy I take Coom or Cazbyn to bee the relict of it the rather in that Ptolomy Pliny and Strabo in their Geography place Aspa in Parthia in 36 deg a name from whence Aspahawn may credibly have been deduced besides the lat is more agreeable or peradventure from Aspadana which they place in 33 deg Spawhawns latitude First speak we what she has been for grandeur in older times and with that we will couple our present observation If I exceed excuse it prestat de Carthagine tacere quam pauca dicere A. D. 645. of the Heg 25 by command of Omar then Calyph of Mecca Siet-ben-Abivakez with a few troops of victorious Sarazens attempts to pluck violently from Yezdgirds head the then tottering Diadem of Persia at the third pull having twice overthrowne him effected it the glorious command of that Monarchy then eclipsing which done this Ben Abivakez sacks his two best Townes Elmedin in Chaldea built Anno Domini 520 by Kozrao sonne to Kobödes and yet the Alcoran sayes it sprung out of hell and Spahawn in Parthia Also we may memorise her from Tangrolipix a Turqueman and Lord of the Zelzuccian Family of whom the Ottomans who in the yeere 1030. of the Hegira 410. Edward the Confessor ruling England Gruffyth ap Llewellyn Wales was intreated by Mahomet then Prince of Persia to ayd him against Pysastris an incroaching Babylonian which Tangrolipix did and prospered in After that he helped him against the invading Indyan and in recompence of his good services the Turque desires leave to passe Araxis to visit his countrimen betwixt the two seas the Hyrcan and Euxine and by jealous Mahomet denyed and so enraged that lurking awhile in the Carmanian Desert the Persian gulph was at his pleasure But vexing to be so confin'd marches against the King and at Shyraz beats his twenty thousand darstardly soldiers and after that opposes 60000 then also victorious whereby Mahomet fled with two much haste to get into Spahawn fell from 's horse and broke his neck the Turks then subjecting Parthya Rached-bila also sonne of Almoster-sha was slaine by Mazud Anno 1130. of the Heg 510 and buried in Spahawn which few for many shall speak her antiquity in the name she is now triumphant in Speak we now of the magnificence wee have told you how the story of ben-Abivakez a thousand yeeres ago cals her a great City but gives us no better description Ben-Ionas who sayes he saw it foure hundred seventy six yeeres ago affoords her twelve miles compasse rich and populous Mandevel A.D. 1300 which is above 300 yeeres since saies that in his time she was a noble City A. D. 1474 Ioseph Barbarus was here Vsan Cassan reigning and hee describes Spahawn to bee a great and famous City peopled with 1500000 soules the Towne and Suburbs ten miles in compasse Rabbi Benjamin and Contarenus the Venetian Ambass 80 yeere ago relate that then shee had 20 Italian miles in circuit and Lemius the Portuguise sent by Albuquerq to Sha-Ismael An. Dom. 1513. reports her glorious I shall now more largely and truly acquaint you with her present standing Spawhawn Metropolis of the Persian Monarchy is seated in the Parthian Territory now cal'd Ayrack as Umbelic to that spacious bodie at this day awed by the Persian Scepter from the Persian gulph removed a hundred seventie nine farsangs of English miles five hundred thirtie seven from the Caspian sea a hundred and twenty farsangs three hundred and sixty miles from Shyraz two hundred twenty two miles from Babylon foure hundred and fifty from Candahor eight hundred and seventie from Cazbyn 270. In compasse at this day nine English miles Circuit including seventy thousand houses and of soules above two hundred thousand compos'd besides Natives of English Duch Portuguiz ' Pole Muscovit Indian Arabian Armenian Georgian Turk Jew and others drawne thither by the magnetick power of gaine and novelty many things here are memorable which for order sake I will present you thus divided The Mydan Mosques Hummums Gates Pallaces Gardens Monuments and Ielphey the City adjoyning Let me lead you into the Mydan into the which ere I can bring you River we passe over a well-built Bridge of stone supported by five and thirty pillars through which the Syndery or Zindaren from the Acroceraunian Mountaines streames gently spreading in rainie seasons here welnigh so broad as the Thames at London but nothing so navigable in Summer her Channells being discovered The Mydan or great Market is without doubt the most spacious Mydan pleasant and Aromatick Market in the Vniverse a thousand paces from North to South the other way above two hundred resembling our Exchange or the place Royall in Paris but six times larger the building is of Brick well made and in delightfull manner fabricated the whole Mydan joyntly continued the inside is full of shops each shop full of ware archt above and in a Cupolo atop tarraswise framed and with plaister like that of Paris cemented This Mydan being the noblest part is so placed in the heart of this triumphant City The Kings Pallace or Chonna-Potshaugh conjoynes the West side of the Mydan possessing a large quantity backwards but juts not to the street further than the other buildings nor to the street side gives any magnifick front or state her best bravery being in the trimme pargetted and painted with blew and gold in mosaick or antick sort interlac't with posies of Arabick either savoring of ostentation they deifie their Kings or for instruction from the Alcoran within the roomes are archt enlighten'd by curious trellizes the roofe imbost above with red white blew and gold the sides with sports and painted Images the ground spread with rich and curious carpets of silke and gold without other furniture Tarrassed above garnisht with a Pharoe over-topping many Mosques and excellent for view and breathing The wildernesse behinde is fild with ayery Citizens priviledg'd from hurt or affrights and for which they returne their thankfull notes in a more swift melodious consort than if they were in the exactest vollyere in the Vniverse The North I le in the Medan shews eight or nine spacious archt rooms hung with Lamps and latten Candlesticks which being lighted gives a curious splendor Thither the Potshaw and others go to see pastimes of tumbling dancing girls and painted Catamites that damned sinne being tolerated by the Alcoran The furthest end North is appropriate for Mynts the first day silver gold the second next day brasse Not farre thence are victualling shops wherein to feed the helpfull belly after the busie eye and painfull feet are satiated Afore the Kings doore and within the

than their tayles which is of like use with them the Proboscis is to the Elephant their mouths are very wide at one gulph able to swallow horse or man their teeth are ingrailed they have no tongue nor can they move their upper jaw-bone their bellies are penetrable backs hardly to be peirced the brumall quarter they fast from food but the rest of the yeare devoure all sort of prey with much voracity and gredinesse No lesse notable is the Females burthen sixty dayes passe ere she lay her egs and which be commonly sixtie numbred sixtie dayes shee conceales them and when she sits sixtie dayes consume in hatching and to agree in one sixtie yeares is usually the Age of this detested beast fish or Serpent by Sea-men improperly cald Alligator corrupted from Allergardos a mixture of Spanish and Alman language the name Crocodile is taken a croceo colere or per Antiphrasin quòd crocum timeat It is the most obnoxious of all sea monsters and rightly becomes the Dissemblers epithite In quibus est astutia Hyaenae piet as Crocodili the Aegyptians of impudency awed by none save the Ichnenmon who steales into his belly and gnawes his guts whiles he opens his chaps to let the little Trochil pick his teeth which give it feeding Hence saile we by many small Iles as Marrah and Lampon in the straits of Sundy so named by Ptolo. and from a point and Town in the next great Iland Of Polygundy also we might speak but love not to land there paenitisse juvabit such bad luck by malevolent Venus or ill dyet had our late plantation wherby the Monopoly died with them out of their graves only springing a new deterring name of Kill abundance But cast we Anchor an ozier ground and fix our wandring eyes upon a more delighted object Iava an I le both great wealthy and famous Insula Iabadiae Niger ghesses it Of Java major IAVA the greater is an I le nigh the Bengalan Sea declining seven some observe nine degr 40 minutes towards the Antartick Pole from the Equinoctiall and in the 120 degrees of longitude From East to West it stretches one hundred and fifty leagues or of english miles foure hundred and fifty from North to South nintie leagues or two hundred and seventie miles the midland is for the most part mountainous and ill peopled the marittim low and populous the first is windy but conducing to health the latter marish and insalubrious It is full of small villages and inhabitants the sea coast by reason of trade for pepper has Townes well built most wealthy and best defended upon the North side and to the N.E. especially are Bantam Palamban Iackatra new named Batavia by the Duch but formerly Sunda-Calapa by the Inhabitants Iaparra Tuban Iortan Greecy Chyringin Serebaya c. Bantam is under Antartick declination or latitude 6 degr 20 minutes and of westerly variation 3 degrees the biggest Citie in the Iland ownd by the Natives built well nigh two miles long distinguisht into a Buzzar the Pengrans Pallace a few streets and at the furthest end the Cheneses live together in low built dwellings Of it selfe it affords nothing save ryce pepper and cotten woll though indeed pepper for the greatest part is brought hither by the crafty but infinitely industrious Chyney men who each Ianuary anchor here and unload their Iuncks or Prawes from Iamby Borneo Malacca and diversother places making Bantam their Magazen or Beehive out of which they furnish the English other merchants These Chyneses are men of peace voluptuous venereous costly in their sports great gamesters and in trading over subtle for young Christian merchants oft-times they are so wedded to dicing that after they have lost their whole estate wife and Children are stak't and parted with yet in little time by gleaning here and there he will be able to redeeme them if not at the day they are sold in the market The lavan Kings are five Viceroys I might better call them foure of them are subordinate to the Mattaran's command who is able to bring unto the field 200000 desperate slaves black but valiant they have small order or pollicy in warre yet dare attempt any thing they are so forward The climate burnes so fiercely that little apparell pleases them most goe most part naked they use lances darts arrowes and shields but their sole braverie is in their crizes a weapon commonly two foot long broad waved sharp edgd and small pointed but against the lawes of Nature and honour basely poisoned the hilt or handle is usually of wood or horne some have them of gold silver and Ivory cut into the crooked shape or figure of a deformed Pagod yet were they a thousand times more ugly these savages would dare to adore them especially in that they aske the Idoll on their creast pardon after they have perpetrated homycide or such like villany a trick us'd by Lewes the eleventh to the Crucifixe in 's hat to his eternall infamy But these ●avans are drunck in their demonomy they the more earnestly imbrace it by how much their poysoned natures abhorre honesty They trade in murthers adulterie thests rapine deceit and all kinds of knaveries Magique also and Astrologie delights them a study their Priests are execellent in and in which Satan instructs them the better to oblige their gratitude and to worship him as the Apollo of knowledge which wee inculcate and abominate yea say with Isaiah Is there any God besides the Lord Iehovah yea there is no God we know not any Isa 44. hee maketh the diviners mad hee turneth the wise men backward and maketh their knowledge foolish Let us not learne the way of the heathen Ier. 10. they are altogether brutish and foolish his molten Image is falshood and there is no breath in them they are vanity and in the day of account they shall perish But in the Lord shall all true beleevers bee justified and shall glory These people know better how to swim than navigate yet are not ignorant in sea affaires nor want they vessels to doe mischiefe in Their chiefe delight is hunting Tygres Ounces and such beasts as give chase and resistance They know Mahomet in some parts of the I le who as an infectious ayre is suckt by many people of remote Ilands Friendly they are to English men and delight to serve them especially since the Duch forced Iacatra from them betwixt whom is such mortall variance that fifteen ryalls is given by either as a reward for each prisoner dead or alive either people can take nor is there ever hope of true Amity with Barbarians The Oran-kays or best sort of people here are lasie sociable but not to bee too much trusted they suppose themselves descended from Chyna in a Iunck 700 yeares ago forced hither by Tuffon or tempest They are proud and weare their hayre pretty long and about their crispes wreath a valuable Shash or Tulipant go naked to to the wast where they gird them