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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

helpes above seven hundred thousand perished the rest were as bad as dead feare and famine so overwhelmed them this river every yeere like Nilus overflowes and supplies their want of raine so mellowing the earth as it compares with Aegypt for plenty and with any other part of Indya for rarities the next yeere the King of Pegu seconded his fight but was compensated with no better fortune we may say with worse in that his sonne in this triall by too much valour lost his life and of 500000 not a third got safe back to Martavan And which was worse than that by these perpetuall brawles of warre his coffers were emptied his Cities impoverisht by want of trade and his Kingdome in a sort depopulated by losse of so many men these prov'd not motives of pittie to the other late subjected Territories but provocatives rather to unsetter themselves as Siam had done from unnaturall thraldome so that the King of Bramaw the viceroy of Tangu and of Rachan a Province twixt Pegu and Bengala confederate and whiles the King of Pegu was hatching more prodigies at Martavan they steale into Pegu with a resolute Army destroying such as the late famine had spared but though they found few people and lesse food yet got they riches incredible out of Pegu the Citie as much treasure as loaded 2000 Camells and as a period of that designe not only made the wretched King crownlesse but crowned their conquest with his life his wife and three sonnes sorrowfully accompaying him Arrakan and the other two disagreeing about the spoyle were beaten home by the Bramaan King hee enjy'd it but a while the Siamite entring so furiously that hee also packt home and left Syam the victorie who since then upon a marriage twixt one of the royall family of Pegu and his daugther has quit his claime and gives way to have both Citie and Kingdome brought to such trade and beauty as it had formerly But to facilitate our travells and to point you out the way the easier accept an adjoyning Map to that in fol. 300 This describing India extra Gangem From Pegu to Bengala are 90 leagues the second Towne of note is Martavan under 15 degrees and which I guesse was that Triglipton note by Ptolomy rather than Pegu as thinks Castaldus I might tell you of the vanitie of this wealthie Monarch either when he showes himselfe in his royall paradrome or in his loading himselfe with glittering gems his head eares armes hands legs and feet resembling a bespangled firmament such as may amaze a good sense yea dazle a good eye and force some men to judge him infinitely rich but I behold him otherwise and think him poore and miserable Or of his deifying his Elephants because milke white and of greater bulke than usuall I suppose him worth our description not that he is unknowne in England but for other things in him than his shape more observable Elephant The Elephant is for growth and understanding chiefest of unreasonable Animalls so as he has bin a subject of many learned writers Aristotle Plutark Pliny Strabo Annian c. They go two sometimes three yeares with young and have extreame torment in their labour their teat is twixt their fore legs which the young one easily finds and sucks with egernesse When they attaine three yeares they feed upon Dates Meale Milke Whey Fruits Suger-canes and Honey they grow till fifteen in that time mounting to foure and twenty foot yet lie downe dance and prove very active In hot weather or when lust inflames them the males grow mad and past jesting with their testicles being in their forehead Umbragious shades caves and rivers please them Swine Serpents and Mice displease them cockcrowing does not so afflict him as with his Proboscis to encounter the Rhynoceros affects him The Persians call him the Symboll of Fidelity Aegyptians the hierogliphic of justice Indians of piety Siamyts of memory Arabs of magnanimity Sumatrans the Embleam of providence Pliny in 8. lib. Nat. Hist gathers them Intellectus illi sermonis patrii imperiorumque obedientia officiorumque didicere memoria amoris gloriae voluptas imo vera religio quoque Syderûm Solisque ac Lunae veneratio c. Musk Cat. The Musk Cat here also convenes and may merit a ca'tagraph shee exceeds the Castor for bignesse her head is little eyes cleare a long muzzle her teeth sharp and offensive her hayre is particoloured harsh and bristly yellow above and whiter downewards her profound pocket is neer the genitory excerpt sometimes with a spoone or stick but when out of servitude of her owne accord parts with it and by its fragor is oft found by the carelesse passenger Having refresht enough upon the mayne hoise we saile for the most noble Iles of the Orient and vicinating the Cities lately spoken of Of Sumatra SVMATRA is that famous I le by Aristotle lib. de mundo and others of old cald Taprobane Symunda in 7. lib. Piol and now by the inhabitors Salyce or Salutra and provided Iapan be not an Ile may truly be reputed the third great I le in all the Universe six hundred some say nine hundred miles long and in breadth two hundred and forty traded to by Solomon but unknown to Alexander though Megasthenes thinks Onesecritus his servant saild thus far One Iambulus an errant Greek is said to have bin here 200 yeares afore Christs nativitie if D. Sic. say true and may be the first discoverer of a Christian Alvaro Telezzo is the first who An. 1506 to find out gold saild whether Aeolus guided since when who people of the world have knowledg of it 'T is Nadyr to the Equinoctiall and now a place where many petty Kings advance their Scepters The most glorious Dyadem incircles the ecliptick brow of that Tyrant of Acheen All of them rich in gold and fruits and stones but miserable in their Mawmetry and superstiion most of them so ingulpht in the abisse of paganisme that they dare adore Cat Rat Dog Divell or what can be moulded after the representation of an elementary Creature both Sex go most part naked both are couragious and apt in Bellonaes dances The soile is good where rivers fructisie barren where gold is veined Many Townes of valew are mediterranean of which Manancabo full of gold is not least memorable But of best note here are Ports and Villages marittimat such as bee Achecu by them cald Ashey Peder Pacem Daya Tico Priaman Tykoa east of Iambee Baruzee Cattatinga Aru Daru and though last first in gold and value Passaman The rivers flow with fish and might prove more delightfull for the Net and Angle did not those hatefull Crocodyles here more than in Nilus frustrate both This noysome creature is one of the greatest wonders we meet with Crocodile in that from so small a beginning as an Egg not much bigger than that of a Turkey they increase to 8 or 10 yards in lenght Their bodies are not longer