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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

very beneficial to them and rejoyce much at the birth of a child especially a Male-child and the joy is general all crying out That is the Infant shall take revenge of their enemies They eat upon the ground or else on a sort of reeds wherewith they likewise cover their Cabbins they sleep commonly in the open ayre without the least inconvenience so sweet and temperate is their climate Letters nor characters they have none but are very ignorant Mandioc a root is their chiefest diet whereof they make flower and eat it without baking likewise boyled with water it makes them drink in taste like turned milke they make flower also of fish dryed in the Sun are great hunters and good archers Brasil or Araboutan is their principal traffick which both men and women go a long way for and bring it on their shoulders to truck for glasse toyes little knives and looking-glasses Brasil is a tree of more then ordinary height with small leaves and infructiferous many kindes of it yellow white and carnation They make their chaffer with Merchants without language setting their wood an end on one side and what they would buy on the other and so bargaining by signes every one takes away his own In some places they make drink of a root called Piroua which hath a sent that flyes into the head of those that are not used to it it refreshes like Tisan of Orange colour when 't is boyled Being at Caramel they feasted us exceedingly with the best dainties they had and on all occasions invited us to eat with them admiring our wayes and highly taken with our civilities amongst other things it seemed strange to them why we so oft took off our hats but informing them it was to do honour they were satisfied they invited us to marry there and live with them offering us their fairest women and much affected our manners and apparell At Feasts most commonly they make their designes of Warre upon their enemies for prisoners and presently joyning all together do reverence to the Sun promising the fairest prisoners for a sacrifice if he prosper them then choosing four of the best experienced amongst them they obey them without exception They march with certain Instruments that make a loud noyse like drummes and are stuck with abundance of feathers their Armes are Clubbes of Brasil which they call Sangal or Araboutan bowes longer then ordinary and arrowes without piles of wood so hard they are as effectuall as steel'd Thus equipag'd they will march fifteen or twenty leagues into the Mountaines to surprize their enemies whom they seldome take unprovided and there will they fight with a bloody obstinacy preferring death before captivity it being their satisfaction and glory to take their enemies alive and feast with their flesh Having taken any they bind them use them well marry them with their sisters or whom they will and let them live together till the day of sacrifice the evening before they acquaint them with it in a friendly way and the other accepts it with alacrity feasting and dancing all together The day come they lead him round the town or habitation and all the people follow him with joy and triumph the boyes shouting and jeering him who without dejection boasts his own feats and prowesse reproaches them that he has done as much for some of theirs and that his slaughter shall be revenged at full then reckons up all theirs that he and his party have eaten the other still singing and dancing regardlesse of what he sayes coming to the place of execution they unbind him and bid him before his death revenge himself the best he can then he with whatsoever comes to his hand falls on and layes at any one he can reach and sometimes wounds such as make not a timely evasion then come two with Clubbes and at a blow beat him to the ground presently they rip him take out his bowels and deliver the heart to their Caraibs or Priests to sacrifice to their Gods the Sun and thunder then washing the carcasse in warme water they cut it in pieces broyle it upon a wooden Gridiron never turning till it be fully enough on one side and then feast all together They assault their enemies in their habitations which are surrounded with a sort of pointed Palizadoes to gore the assaylants the others storme it in the weakest place and being robustious and strong backed ever strive to come to hand-fight The miserable wife of the prisoner makes most sad moan and specially if she be with child foreknowing they will do the like for her infant when it shall come to two or three years old a strange cruelty and so swallow their own bloud under pretence 't is the child of an enemy Savages though they are there appeares something of good natural reason in them which by instruction and addresse might be improved As when we reproach them with their nakednesse they retort that we are the stupid and unreasonable to conceale what God hath so liberally given us and have we nothing to doe with our money but to cast it away upon clothes things of no use being borne without them Another asked me one day why we Christians would hazard our lives in so long voyages if it were to see or possesse their countrey to which we had no right and saying 't was for neither but onely to fetch some things of gaine amongst them and what gaine said he a scurvy piece of wood and other things as little worth And telling him that wood was of value in our countrey and usefull to our livelyhood And how said he is your countrey so wretched it yields you not sufficient for life and sustenance I answered the countrey had a good sufficiency in it to maintain us but we desired to get wealth for the felicity of our selves and posterity And what sayes he will these riches advance you in Gods favour will they preserve from death or can you carry them with you and replying 't was for none of all this but that we took a felicity to leave it to our children Well said he if the soyle were sufficient to maintain you and your Fathers before you why should it not do the same for your children and posterity They alledge the same reason when we blame them for not cultivating their land saying since it kept their fathers 't will not faile to maintain them and their children So these silly people live free from all passion avarice ambition envie and labour of body or spirit If they get any thing that is good they call in their neighbours and make merry together with perfect friendship candor and freedome without quarrels or calumnies go freely to one another and eat what they finde with a good will They have a drink of the root Cavain which the Carmels call Piroa made thus they boyle the root with water and when they use it they stirre it together and drink it warm this

they make of it a most mournfull repast This done they scrape the bones clean and perfume them with much ceremony and lap them up in linnen cloaths made of Arbeste which wil never consume by fire but grow whiter and cleaner nor rot under ground but will keep for ever I have got of the cloath in my Travels which I have shown to curious persons These Ceremonies ended and the bones laid in the Tombe every one drawes homeward Such is their strange manner of sepulture The Town of Siam stands upon the fair and large river of Mecan that springs from the famous Lake of Chiamay Sian is stately walled and conteines thirty thousand houses with a Castle strongly fortified built upon the water as Penivitan and Venice The Country breeds Elephants Rinocerots Giraffs Tygers Lions Leopards and all sorts of savage beasts the fairest Hermines of the East Camels Dromodaries and some say Unicornes which being very timerous beasts seldom appear in sight Some of them are found about Chyamay lake I will speak of them in another place This Lake is 200. miles about whence many great and famous rivers arise as Ava Caypumo Menan Cosmin and others they overflow like the Nilus This Lake is bounded Eastward with vast forrests and impassible Marshes and Fens and very dangerous prodigious Serpents are bread there with wings like bats which bear them from the ground and carry them with a strange swiftness flying they rest themselves upon the end of their tailes which are sharp they did once so swarm that they made a whole Province desert and desolate and without the juice of fig-leaves which was an antidote against their poison not one had escaped The Prince of those parts having armed his subjects made vast trenches and ditches in that Province and with the help of dogs tigers lions and other savage beasts trained up to hunting young and disguised in other skins he armed many other beasts against them he destroyed an innumerable number of those Serpents that cast themselves headlong into those ditches then he set a prize to be given to those that should kill any of them and by these meanes that breed was soon destroyed Notwithstanding there are some seen still in the forrest and I have seen of them of incredible length they prey upon sheep and other cattell There is another beast in the same Country faced like a man but all wricnkled which appeares by night only and is called Espaulouco This beast gets up upon the top of trees and makes a bewailing noise a purpose to catch something when she lights of no prey she feedes upon earth 'T is a very slow beast and there are of that kind in many places The Kingdom of Siam hath formerly suffered many changes some few yeares before we were there The King a most renowned and victorious Prince was by his own Queen poisoned who after married one of the stewards of her household with whom she had lived in adultery and made him King having likewise put to death her own son that succeeded his father since they were by conjurations both murthered at a feast and the Kingdom subject to continuall revolutions till Bramaa King of Pegu took occasion to besiege Odiaa but leaving his life in the siege h●r successor utterly demolished the Town and obtained the white Elephant I spoke of since that Siam hath revenged her self upon Pegu. Thus the Kingdomes of the Indies are very various never remaining long under the same condition or Government CHAP. XXVI Of the Kingdom of Martaban marvellous strength of Macaraou or the flowing of the sea Particularities of Pegu. FRom Siam we came to the Kingdom and Town of Martaban sometime subject to Pegu but since to the King of Syam It buts Westward upon the Gulfe of Bengale Northward upon Pegu Eastward upon Siam and Southward upon Tanasserim and Jangome The Fathers of St. Francis and those of the Society have built them Churches there The soyle is very fertile yielding ordinarily three crops the year there is plenty of Rice and other sorts of grain fruit trees sweet and medicinall hearbes of all sorts mines of all mettalls rubies and other stones and the aire is very wholesom The Capitall Town is Martaban sixteen degrees towards the North hath a good harbor and scituate upon the river Gaypoumo or rather upon an arme of the sea where the tide runs strangely toward Pegu for whereas ordinarily it flowes by degrees with an easie motion without violence here it fills that arme of the Sea or River on a sudden and flowes with such fury and impetuosity as it were mountains rolled up in water and the most rapid torrent in the world doth not parallel this in swiftnesse and by three passages fills the harbor and other receptacles with a most fearefull force and rapidity This arme is by the Indians called Macaroou which signifies beware the Tyger for the vehemence of the waves which I will more amply speak of in another place Martaban joynes to the Territories of Dougon the remotest Town of Pegu. The Inhabitants are given very much to trading and especially in Lacca a kind of gumm they draw out of trees very fine and better then that is made in Dalascia in Aethiopia which I have already spoken of They have many more Droggues as Galingall Turbith or Camomell Rubarb found upon the mountains of Pegu and is called Jubara The leafe is broad and bitter as gall they gather it in May which is the latter end of their winter the root is of a tan'd collour some is yellow purple and red according to the land that bears it Some season their meat therewith and 't is a preservative against many infirmities 't is sold very cheap and is mingled with perfumes there growes wood of Aloes red Sendal and Cittern upon the hills Women burn of all these to make concoctions and use them in their labours and delivered they seek for a black-headed lamb and carry the child to the Temple covered with flowers drugges and perfumes Then they begin their sacrifice delivering their child and lamb into the hands of the Banean or Priest called Satalico the skin head feet and entrals fals to his share this is done in honour of Castigay their Idol All those Flamins are great Magicians They cast the childrens nativities new-borne and set down what shall befall them during their lives This writing is carefully kept by the parents for to prevent the bad accidents For they esteem whatever those Baneans say infallible and when any person is sick they are consulted whether the party will dye or recover and when they have given their opinion 't is believed as Gospel One being once as I may say condemned or sentenced to death by a Wizard and left off was undertaken by one of our company and recovered in nine dayes which made them believe the Christians were more knowing then their Magicians the like