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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

Mow Eyes Chasin Eye-browes Browz Nose Bynny Eares Goush Cheekes Row Mustachoes Sibyl Lips Lab Teeth Dandoon Chyn Chynoser Arme Bozow Breast Sinow Hand Dast Finger Angusht Belly Shykam Yard Kery Stones Sekym Matrix Cus Thighes Roam Knees Zoanow Foot Poe Wine Sherap Water Obb Fire Attash Wind Bawd The Sea Deriob a Ship Kishtee a Boat Kishtee-cowcheck Fish Mohee a Sheep Guspan a Goat Booz Roast Meat Cobbob Rice Brindg Boyled Rice Pelo Wood Yzom Apples Sib Pomgranads Narr Musk-Melons Corpoos Water-Melons Hendoon Myrabolans Allilha Dates Wchormaw Almonds Bodoom Raisons Kishmish Walnuts Gardow Sugar Sucker Small Nuts Pistachoes Sirrup of Dates Dooshab Pleasant Liquor Sherbet Bezar Pezar a Rose Gull Grapes Angwor Figges Anger Orenge Norenge Lemmons Lemoon Carroway seed Giznees Anny-seed Zera Nutmeg Goose Cloves Mekut Mace Basbas Cinamon Dolcheen Spice Filfill Ginger Gingerfill Pepper Pepperfill Ophium Triack or Therias Rubarbe Rhubarr Onions Peose Spiknard Sembul-tib Manna Sheer-quest Sena Machyi Poppie Pustie one Yeere Yeck Sol one Month Yeck-Maw a Day Rowse to day Amrowse Yesterday Diggrowse to morrow Subbaw two dayes hence Past-subbaw Night Shave or Shab Soone Zood Much Pishaar More Diggar Good Cowbass Bad Baddass Naught Cowb-nees Great Buzzurck Little Coucheck Small Kam Lesse Andack Write Binwees Sing Bowhoon Bread Noon Butter Rogan Cheese Paneer Milk Sheer Sower Milk Mosse Vinegar Sirca Rose-water Gule-ob Hony Dowshabb Salt Namack Water Obb Raine-water Ob-baroon Salt-water Ob-namack Hot Garmas Cold Sermawas a Book Catobb a Chest San dough a Carpet Collee a League Farsang halfe a League Nym-Farsangas a resting place Manzeil a common Inne Carravans-raw a Nursery Haram a House Conney a place Ioy Straw Io Barley Cow Wheat Gandowm Money Zarr White Sevittas Red Sourck Iron Pholot a Knife Cord a Sword Shamshere a Gun Tophangh a Glasse Shusha Inck Moora kabbas Silke Abrushumas Lace Chytoon Buttons Dougma a Furre Fust a Dagger Hangier Spurre Mahamis Boots Chagma a Window Pangera a Doore Darr a Table Taghtah a Chayre Cursee a Cup Paola a Candle Sham a Candle-stick Shamdom a Bed Mafrush a Pillow Nazbolish a Quill Callam a Garden Baugh or Bawt a Towne De the Devill Shitan Hell Iehendam Rogue Haramzedday Slave Colloom Whore Cobba Cuckold Ghyddee Foole Doo anna Villaine Haram zedda old Whore Moder-Cobba the Kings Evill Boagma Dogge Segg Cat Chat Mule Astor a Goat Buz Cow Gow an Asse Owlock an Elephant Behad a Nightengall Bulbul Camell Shouter Mule-man Astor-dor Camell-man Sheuter-dor Horse-keeper Myter a Horse Asp a Saddle Zeen a Saddle-cloth Zeen-push a Shooe Cosh a Naile Cheat Sheepherd Vloch Bird Quoy Beefe Goust de gow Hen Morgh Hens-Egges Tough-morgh Boyld Poactas Halfe boyld Nym-poact Paper Coggesh Cartas Thred Respun All boyld Hamma-poact Kitchen Mawdbaugh Old Chonnay New Novas I Thou He Man San O Nothing Hech a high-way Raw a Tree Drake a Turquoise Pheruzay a Pasport Phyrman a Cap or Turbāt Mandeel a Coat Cabay a Key Cleet a Ring Hanguster a Tower Manor a Needle Suzan a Looking-glasse Dina a Whip Chabuck a Towell Dezmal a Gift Piscash a Platter Langaree a Plate Nalbachee a Colour Raugh a Misbeleever Caffar a Privy Adam Conney a Close stoole Ob-Conney a Cradle Cajua a Glasse bottle Shuzan a riding Coat Bolla-push a hill Achow a Hot-house Hummum a Sweet heart Ionanam Strength Zoor Full Pooras Strait Tanghea Weake Sanghe nees In health Choggea Sick Na-choggea Dead Mordass Gone Raftas Here Ingee Above Bolla hollanda Below Poin Angry Ianghea Hungry O jam Sope Saboon Broken Shekestas Laden Barkonnas Lost Gumshottas Found Paydcun Tobacco Tombacoo Tutoon A Tobacco pipe Calliown lula Stop Bast Wash Bushur The Market Buzzar the great Market Mydan You lie Drugmaguee You say true Rosmaguee Very right Dreustas Neere farre off Nazeecas duras Bring it higher Beare ingee What say you Chechesas Goe call him Bro Awascun He is a sleepe Cobbedat He is abroad Swarshudat He is not within Conney neese He is beheaded Shaw cusht He eats drinks Mough whorat Come quickly Zood beaw Goe quickly Zood burro Know you yes Medanny baly Where is he Quo jaas Who my father Che pader man I know not Che madannam Can I tell you Che cunnam Not farre off Durneese What say you Chemigwe I drink to you Esco-sumaw I thank you Bizmilla with all my heart All humderalla Much good do it Awpheat Give me Biddy Do you love me you Dooz me daree Take away Verdure You trifle Bazi-mecunné Fill full Pour-kunn Boyle the meat Goust-buppose Stay a while Andac wiest Even so Hamshé Beat him Besome It is day Rows-hast It is night Shab-hast It is dark Tareekas Say thou Gufta I have forgot Man Varamashcardam Bravely done Barra colla Brave game Tamas-shaw English Persian A good morrow or God blesse you Sir Sallam-alleekam The like I wish you Sir Alleekam-sallam Whether doe you goe Quo ja merué Not farre Dure neese How doe you to day Chaldery Amrooz Well I praise God Choggee Shoocoro-Whoddaw Good I am very glad thereof Koobas Whoddaw bashat Where have you beene Quo ja boodee Now I am your servant Hali man Merda sumaw Welcome Sir heartily welcome Hoshmodee Agaw Suffowardee Tell me how you doe healthie Gufta chehaldery choggee Where is your house at Babylon Quo jaas chonna sumaw Bagdat Have you a Wife Zan daree Yea truly fifteene Sir Bally pounsdata beg How old are you twenty foure Chan sol daree char-beest How are you called Che nom Daree sumaw My name is called Teredoro Noma mannas Teredore Is this the way to Tauris Een raw hast Tabyris Yea but how many leagues thither Bally o chan Farsangas untraf I suppose t is twenty Man medonam beest Is the way good or bad Raw koob o baddas Is there good Wine Vnjee koob sherabbas Yea in the high way Bally raw hast Whose Garden is that Een baugh mally chee T is the great Kings Mally-Pot-shawhas Know you Cazbeen Cazbeen medanny I doe Sir have you seene it Man bali beg sumaw dedee Why not I know all Persia Cheree-na hamma Farsee dedam Come hither good Boy Ingee bear koob Pissar Give me some Wine soone Sherap bedee zood Fill me but one cup Pourcun yeck paola Then saddle my Horse Asp zeen pushee I thank you Sir Whoddaw-negaturat It growes dark I le sleepe Tarreekas man mechobed Give me some water slave Ob be d ee colloom Here Sir take it Ingee Agaw hast bedee Much good doe it you brother Awpheat bashat-broder What businesse have you Che Corr daree sumaw Little but stay a little Coocheck andae wyst I have some occasions Man corr daram Tell me where is the King Gufta Pot-shaw quo jaas I beleeve in Hyrcania Man medonam Mozendram God blesse you Wheddaw bashat Persian English Turkish Yeck One Beer Do or Dew Two Ekee Se Three Eweh Char Foure Dewrt Panch Five Beash Shesh Six Altee Haft Seven Yedté Hasht Eight Seckez No Nine Dockoz Dah Ten One Yauzda Eleven One-beet Dozda Twelve One-ekhe Sezda Thirteene

a vent in heat of fury he againe assaulted them they retaliate his hate with such dexterity that many Coosel-bashes expir'd their last and so many others were bruis'd that they begun a common mutiny protesting to returne whiles possible upbrayding the Generall that he knew not how to use a victory that Bahaman was theirs Mount Taurus theirs and doubted not but they would do homage if the Shaw would so honour him that with more credit and gaine they could oppose the Turk or Indyan The Generall is plung'd into a deadly Dylemma If he could infuse patience and make them stay hee knew not how to mount the Castle if he returned without full conquest he knew his head should off Ferrat-cawn Oliverdi-cawn Kurchichy-cawn and other brave Captaines for like faults being that yeere beheaded Hee machinates at length another triall he releases Bahaman upon his knees beseeches pardon vowing he us'd this seeming discourtesie but to try his excellent temper that his leave to go back was granted him either to go or stay as pleased him that Abbas his Master had sent for him and that he should depart more joyfully could he but be so happy to see his sons whom for valour and policy he admired above all mortall creatures that if any Articles and Truce might reciprocally bee signed to oh what content it would affoord and fetter him in a thousand slavish ingagements Bahaman is over-joyed at this Syren never did musick to his dull eares sound more melodiously some Magick spell sure had infatuated him he beleeves the Persian and gives a Sardonick smile to think how blest hee was in this attonement he dictates a pathetick letter and is permitted to shew his joy at a distance to his sonnes A nefarious messenger delivers it and bewitches the well-nigh distracted Princes with such piscashes and presents of worth that accepting them and joying at the easie Articles they consult and fearing to irritate so Potent a neighbour to further mischiefe the Queene also provoking them downe contrary to the soldiers who presag'd by many submissive diswasions their ruine downe they go relying on the perfidy of the Generall who sounds for joy and carries them to their endeared Father twixt whom was shewed love and obedience in the height of both the Generall presents them a solemne banquet but death attended them For when these three were blessing their good destiny smiling in a mutuall consent of love the Generall gives the signe and at one instant three Coosel-bashes standing by with their slicing Semiters whipt off their heads all three at one moment made immortall and ere this villany was spread abroad by vertue of their seales they made the men above descend and yeeld the Castle some receiving mercy some destruction By that detested policy yoaking in slavery this late thought indomitable Nation such was the miserable end of Meleq ' Bahaman and two hopefull Princes forgetfull of warres subtleties and how Aladeule their neighbour King of Anti-Taurus for playing fast and loose with Selim first Emperour of Turqs by equall credulity gave a like issue to his life and Kingdome Opposit to this Castle is erected the Sepulcher of Bahamans beloved Queene in the high-way as wee passed t is of foure equilateralls elevated eight yards high the materiall is of stone well squar'd and plaster'd with white very apparant and comely A long mile from this Sepulcher and higher up into the Aire is the high peak of Damoan by Strabo in his 11. lib. call'd Iasonia whose top shaped like a Pyramid surmounts all the other parts of Taurus up which defatigating hill we crambled with no small difficulty and from whence wee could discover the Caspian Sea eightscore long miles distant thence 't is above compos'd of sulphur which causes it to sparkle each night like Aetna a pleasant object to the eye but is so offensive to the smell that it requires a nosegay of Garlick in the ascending hence most part of Persia and Chaldaea has their brimstone the reason why we rode up was out of curiosity to see the baths so generally resorted to so excellently famous Three are incircled with strong stone-walls and two are open The first are for those of quality the other in common and hither in August people flock apace from remote parts decrepit and diseased in mighty multitudes How are we tost by Fortune when we keep At Sea we see the wonders of the deep And tremble at the danger where we dive Under the hideous waves When we arrive On land we think us happy But ere long We must to work againe and climb the strong And craggy Mountains reaching up to Heaven Each down-cast look is death each way uneven Dants our thick-panting hearts lest if we misse One step we head-long fall the precipisse The top like fierce Vesuvim Sulphur spits The mid-way wholsome Baths which cute all fits Of agues aches palsie and the stone All epileptick fumes as if alone Nature had chose this place to plant in these The Art of Galen and Hypocrates Now whether this hill take denomination from Damoan five farsangs thence or the Towne from it I cannot argue but from the signification a Second plantation the Jewes have a Cabala that Noahs Ark rested here Noahs Ark. not only from the super-eminency of the hill but Vines and Zone fitting a seminary better than any part of the Armenian mountains Besides this hill where Taurus rises up higher than elsewhere is part of Paropamisa where Becanus places the Ark denying that Ararat is in Armenia though Hayton to make it be beleeved calls it Aremnoē But how improbable so ere that be this seemes more congruous that at this Towne of Damoan and mountaines about it the Idolatrous Tribes removed by Salmanasser were here seated those especially of Dan Zebulon Assur and Nepthaly the other of Ruben Gad and halfe Manasses by Tiglath Pillesar about Lar Iaarown and other parts of Chusistan For albeit Ptolomy makes Gozana in his 6. lib. 18. chap. a branch of Oxus in above 40 degrees and at Hara and Hala and Ghabor Cities of Medya neere the river Gozan sacred story saies they were placed by the Assyrian it cannot be that Gozan mixes with Oxus since no part of Medya is within three hundred miles of it Gozan then is in Medya and seeing that Araxis waters Armenia from Ararat and runnes into the West side of the Caspian sea this river here of a great bredth streaming from Taurus both into Medya and Hyrcania cut in many small rivolets by the people to draw her many wayes must needs be Gozan and the Jewes inhabiting here for many ages confirme my conjecture saying also that they were brought hither captives and here have rested during many overtures and changes of the Persian Monarchy East of Damoans high peak is a Towne call'd Nova in it a hundred families A young man sonne to Hodge-Suare the Persian Merchant that dyed in London Anno Domini 1625 and brother to Mahomet whom we

and drunkennesse Their complements were heartie and not various to equalls affoording imbraces to superiours bowing the head and knee to this houre continued without much alteration the rest I offer not this in my conceit sufficing to parallell the moderne customes and to set them off with better lustre Of the Persians at this day The religion of the Persians at this day I have fitted by it selfe without commixture Speak wee of other observations They are very superstitious it may be noted from our adverse fortunes as we travelled for when wee stood at their mercy to provide us Mules Camells and Horses how hasty soever we appeared they took no notice of it nor cared to set us forward Their superstition except by throwing the dyce such a chance hapned as they thought fortunate a ceremony diduced from the Romans who had their albi atri dies In every mischance also or in sicknesse they use sorcery prescribing charmes crosse characters letters anticks or the like taken most commonly out of their Alcoran Nicromantic studies are much applauded as profound and transcending vulgar capacities many in those parts make a notable living of it and few Siets there but can exorcize Force In battell they have few tricks or stratagems yet prosper in an honest bravery There are many severall rancks and degrees amongst them foure most remarkable Chawns Coozel-bashes Agaes and Cheliby or Coridschey The Timarrs or Turqmars are more despicable In a common muster the Persian King can easily advance as appeares by roll and pension three hundred thousand horse and seventy thousand good musquetoons Such forces he can march withall but seldome exceeds 50000. enough to live together in such barren Countries Forces to particularize as some have partly the Sultans and their Command may better prove it Mirza Fetta has under his Regiment fiftie sub-Bashaes of note each of them commanding three hundred men His horse troopes are thus raised Emangoly Chan of Shyraz has under his charge 30000 horse Dav'd Chawn his brother Kaza-can Lord of Sumachy Assur-chawn Lord of Myreyvan Zedder Lord of the Kaddyes and Gusseroft Magar Sultan of Tabryz each command 12000 horse Soffy-chan Sultan of Bagdat Akmet Kawn Lord of Miscarroon Gusseraph-chawn Sultan of Koom Zenal-cawn Lord of Tyroan each his charge of 15000 horse Isaac-beg 24000. Ethaman the Vizier 17000. Soffy Koolican 16000. Gosserat-chan Governour of Arabestan Perker-cawn Lord of Gorgestan Hussan-chawn Lord of Ery Manwezir-can and Sinall-chawn Lord of Sigestan 10000 each of them Mahomet Governor of Genge 8000. Ham-sha-cawn of Dara 7000. Aliculi of Periscow 4000. Morad of Asharaffe 6000. Badur-can the Darragod 6000 and Dargagoly sonne to Gange Ally-can Sultan of Candahor 4000 three hundred and twenty thousand horse or there-about wonderfull when I consider the miserable pastures and want of other provant to encourage their horses with making chopt straw and a little barley serve the turne but by that thin dyet find them lesse apt to diseases and more couragious In peace they are not alwayes idle solacing their active bodies in sundry sorts of warlike exercises They cannot dance except as Pirrhus taught the Epyrots They love to hunt and chase the Stagg the Antilope Gazal Exercises Tyger Bore Goat Hare Fox Jackall Woolfe and the like abounding there In which pastimes they have singular skill courage and dexterity in Bow Dart Scemiter Gun and Javelin Their Harquebuz is longer than ours but thinner and not so good for service They can use that very well but detest the trouble of the Cannon and such field peeces as require carriage They have good Greyhounds not unlike the Irish apt to encounter any Lyon They have Spaniells also but not so good as their Hawkes may challenge They have many excellent Eyeries of Eagles Lannars Goshawkes and Hobbies their best Falcons are out of Russia and other Scythick Provinces they fly them at choise game commonly at Hares Jackalls Partrich Phesant Herne Pellican Poot Estrich c. Their Lures Jesses Varvills Hoods are richly set with stones of great price lustre The vulgar sort delight in Morice dancing wrastling assaulting bandying Ram and Cock-fighting wherein they spend much time but value not their money to see Boyes dance or Lavoltoes upon the rope wherein they are very excellent Their Physitians are great admirers of Nature Physicians and doat so much thereupon that they make that oft-times the first causer which indeed is but instrumentall or secundarie morall men they are and humane in language and garbe both which beget esteeme and honor from all that know them and did not avarice a vice predominating there and by occasion of sicknesse in me full dearly exemplified and Magick studies too far sway them I could value them above the rest however as they are they passe for a generation usefull and exquisite They have degrees transcending one another in Title as their skill and Seniority merits The Doctors are nam'd Haekeems it may be radically from the Hebrew word Hachajim that is a life-preserver Mulaii in the Arabick Mountebanks or Imposters are nick-nam'd Shitan-Tabib i.e. the Devills Chirurgion They are Masters of much knowledge and ignore not the Mathematiques Many Arabick Writers have flourisht in those parts most of whose Bookes they read and practise by namely Galen Averroys Hippocrates Alfarabius Avycenna Ben-Isaack Abu-Ally Mahummed-Abdilla Ben-Eladib Abu-becr Rhazis Algazzallys ' and Albumazar In Geography Abul-foeda and Alphraganus from whom they better their discourse and by such Lectures become admirable Nor want they the knowledge of herbs drugs and gums the Mydan in Spahawn abounding in singular variety and than which no place in the world can more aptly be termed a Panacaea a Catholicon of herbs of drugs a Magazein ' gainst all diseases having also no lesse choice of delicious fruits rare gums and aromatique odours This I observed that to such of us as had fluxes they gave Sloes Ryce Cynomon Pomgranad Barbaries to purge melancholy Alloës Senna Rhuparb for phlegme Turbith for colds sweatings oyles of Beaver of Leopards of Jackalls herba maris our Ladies Rose c. Which I note to shew you they have some skill and resembling Europaean prescriptions Howbeit sweating in Sudatories is the Epidemic Physick there most us'd of least charge and very usefull insomuch that some Cities have above threescore hummums or baths some say three hundred Phlebotomy is but little us'd not that it is bad not perhaps because Galen and the other old Naturalists never us'd it They desire rather to tread in an antick path of ignorance then by any new invention or wholsome study to wrong the judgements of their predicessors because forsooth Eventus varios res nova semper habet And hence it is as I imagine that they continue their maimed calculations out of a blind conceit that antiquity commanded them for they compute their yeares only by the Moone Lame calculations not by that course and motion of the Sun affirming that the firmament

so soone as any Mussulman is inhumed forthwith Muengar and Quarequar two ougly Legend of bad Angells huge black and furious Devills do assaile him the one being arm'd with an iron club th' other with a hook of flaming brasse in that terrible sort they view the Carcasse and in as imperious sort command him to lift up his head to fall prostrate upon his knees and beg his soule till then departed the dead bodie revives and entertaines his soule again and faile not both together to accompt their life and how they have profest Don Mahomet If it appeare his life was morally good the two Devills terribly affrighted flie away and give way to two good Angels apparreled in pure white silke to comfort him to the day of doome not budging from him nor seeming wearie nor unwilling to protect him But in case his life prov'd bad or repugnant to Mahometry then without all pitty or respect the black-fac't Caco-Daemon with the iron club hits him so pat so fiercely on the head as by its fury and force thumps him ten yards deep into the ground but there hee sleepes not long for immediatly the other spitefull helhound with the flaming hook pulls him up againe in that horrid sort tormenting that miserable Mahomitan till Mahomet calls a generall Parliament where in one place of his Alcoran hee promises to save them all but in another forgetting his promise it seemes appoints them all to passe over a narrow Bridge he calls it the Bridge of judgement each man carrying his sinnes in a bagg behinde him but in passing over such as have heavie loads the bridge breaks and they all fall into hell such as have lesse weight into purgatory c. as I shall disport you with in his Alcoram The Persians at this day when ere they receive a mandat or other letter from the King or wherein his name is used Reverence to their King give it no small reverence they bow their bodies at the receiving it kisse it in divers places then open it Such is their transcendent opinion of his Majesty that they repute no lesse of him than of old times they did of their Elementall Gods they swear usually by his name Sha-ambashy or Serry-shaw i.e. by the Kings head and is of no lesse force to beget beleife than if they ratified a truth by Serry-Mortis-Ally i.e. Mortis Alli's head a Prophet than whom they think non greater or by putting a finger to their eye and saying chash the King sees then though the story bee never so paradoxicall if you please you may beleeve them yea in most conceits they parallell Abbas with Mahomet in every prayer desiring his content and increase of life though by the losse of theirs it were augmented By losse of ours the Gods increase your life De nostris annis tibi Iupiter augeat annos acknowledging their happinesse from him and entitling not without much pride too their lives wives and estates by him wholly to be disposed of they imagine hee knowes their thoughts and when in his presence never speak cough spit or looke upon him least the fulgor of his aspect might peradventure prove no lesse formidable than the Trisulk of Iupiter they register now as of old his acts and apophthegms in Caedar Tablets gum'd with Cynabre and seldome write his name but in characters of gold upon paper of excellent glosse and finenesse varied into azure vermillion yellow and other colours in a word reputing him the true reptesentator of Ally and his glorie whose perfections they compare to Amber Nutmegs Roses Flowers and Odours Animate Dei Imago in terris and with Homer The best beloved sonne of Iove We were yet abroad now let me entertaine you in their houses the cost what ere it be you shall be welcome to if it agree not with your appetite I cannot help it the countrie will afford no better first satiate your eyes and note their furniture and remember that brave man who by Alcydes foot found out his monstrous big dimension A pan a platter Dyet and a carpet is the epitomè of all their domestic utensills their dyet is soone dreft soone eaten soone digested and soone described their table is the solid ground cover'd with some sort of carpet over which they spread pintado cloths afore each man they lay five or six thin cakes of wheat or pancakes every one his spoone also very memorable woodden spoones their handles being well-nigh a yard long the spoone it selfe so vast as my mouth could seldome master it though I gaped extreamly to welcome it they seldome go beyond Pelo but in that dish expresse they think a wittie invention setting before you fortie dishes call'd by fortie names as Pelo Chelo Kishmy-pelo c. albeit indeed it differ but thus all are of ryce mutton and hens boyl'd together some have butter some have none some have fruit some have none some have turmerack saffron some have none some have onyons and garlick some have none some have almonds and raisins some have none and so ad infinitum making us also beleeve they make us gallant cheere and great varietie though the ingredients bee one diffring only in colour or complement some comming to the Table as black as a coale some as white as a curd others that you may know their Cooks are wittie be yellow greene blew red or as they fancie and wot you forsooth why Rice is so generally eaten so valuable not that it exceeds wheat or other graine in goodnesse finenesse roundnesse or the like but from a most reverent tradition delivered by their grand Annalist Iacob-ben-siet-Ally a right Cabalist And this it is On a time Legend of Rice Mahomet being earnest in his prayers was accidentally conveighed into Paradize where being very earnest in beholding its rare varieties at length hee cast his eyes upon the glorious Throne of the Almighty and perceiving the Lord to turne about fearing he should bee severely whipt for such presumption blushes for shame and sweats with terror but loth to have it seene wipes off his brow the pretious sweat with his first finger and threw it out of Paradise it was not lost for forthwith dividing it selfe into six drops all of them became miraculous creatures the first drop became a fragrant Rose therefore is rose-water so much used there and in honor of the Rose an Annuall feast solemnized the second a grain of Ryce a holy graine the other foure foure famous Doctors who having Pallas for their sister helpt Mahomet to compile his holy Alcoran You have not tasted all yet sallads a charrs and hard egs parti-coloured and therefore hard that their stomack be not too soone emptied the mutton there is sweet but fat only in the taile the weight commonly ponderizing above twentie pounds sometimes the Carcasse Camell Goat and Pheasant are also manducable the countrie yeelds the Law allowes it contrary to Beefe Veale Swines-flesh Hare Buffols prohibited by Mahomet

and five hundred Attique or Euboick Talents Crowne revenue in our summes forty hundred thousand crowns or there abouts therfore might they easily lavish out such prodigious expences Out of Indya also they yearely received three hundred and threescore Talents of gold The crowne revenue at this day is little lesse albeit the jurisdiction royall be not halfe so spatious and amounts to mighty summes Tahamas Anno Dom. 1560 received eight millions of crownes gathered from fifty Sultans who farm'd his in-comes besides an annuall present or tribute of 20000 crownes Leventhibeg a Georgian Prince never fail'd to send him and 12000 horse the Curdyes 'twixt the two Seas also eased him of payment and Abbas at this day from silk tribute and exactions receives yearely above nine millions foureteene millions and 280000 florins some say 357000 Tomans in Persian money in ours 1190000 pound sterlin And though the ground by a continued flaming of the Sun be barren in grasse trees or the like yet it hinders not that her womb is rich and uberous for besides her store of rarest marble the earth from her concave bosome oft-times discovers many rich mineralls and stones of lustre Jacynths Jasper Myneralls Chrysolites Onix Turquoises Serpentine and Granats the Pezars and Pearles than which no part of the whole world has better also no lesse valuable Of old the Persian hills have been famoused for Mynes of gold Plautus in Sticho remembers it The Persian hills he may deserve to hold Which if the proverb lie not are of gold Mereat Persarum montes qui esse aurei perhibentur c. and Varro alluding to their tempting excellencies thus The Persian mountaines nor the Lydian state Our mindes from care or zeale can seperate Non demunt animis curas ac religiones Persarum montes non divitis atria Croesi But whether they have any now or no I know not Thus having done with this of old record we the coynes at this day used Coynes the Abbassee is in our money sixteene pence Larree ten pence Mamoodee eight pence Shahee foure pence Saddee two pence Bistee two pence double Cozbeg one penny single Cozbeg one halfe penny Fluces are ten to a Cozbeg the gold coynes are Sultanyes Duraes c. but few seene all but the Cozbegs and Fluces being pure silver the other brasse and currant all o're his Monarchy I have else-where described the buildings in Persia a word of their beds and other customes Their beds are generally Cotts of two foot height Beds or foure posts strengthened with girthweb a shagg or yopangee atop of double use serving as an Vmbrella abroad at home a Coverlet in Summer their Slaves attend about them some to waft and to beget coole ayre others to scare away the Gnats and such like buzzing vermin The men account it no small shame to urine standing but call such dogs rather than Mussulmen we beleeve them they mundifie their genitors after it and to that end have Slaves every where attending them with Ewers of silver to cleanse pollution they hate to see men walk such they think mad a madder thing to see them ride tho not a stones-cast journey Their horses are of the Arabian breed bodied like Jennets Horses but farre more swift and couragious they curb their fierie mettall with sharp cutting bitts a ring of iron also helping them their bridles are long and studded with gold of such mettall are their pummell 's and stirrops their saddles are usually of velvet high close like the Morocco sort the trees are curiously painted those they borrow from the Tartar are hard and small and close sure but not so easie They are generally fat and in good liking albeit their fare be meane and slender a little bagg fill'd with barley and chopt straw hung about their heads is both livery and manger they strictly tie them to a proportion more or lesse breeding death or diseases The Mules are no lesse valuable of better service where the passage is sandy desart or mountanous Men use Horses and Asses to ride upon women never but upon Camells every Camell loaded with two Cages or Cajuaes as they call them holds two women of wood coverd with scarlet commonly low and not suffering them to stand upright but lesse grievous in that for most part all sorts sit cannot endure long standing when any mans Haram travels they are guarded with leane-fac't Eunuchs without weapons to offend women but arm'd with bowes swords to defend thē against any bold or curious opposer upon sight of any of them all travellers fly out of the way albeit they be the best men in Persia to make good the custom and to prevent such mischiefe as jealousie drawes too oft along with it enflaming there as quickly as in any other part of Asia where we will finish our domestick view and turne our eyes upon other objects their Language first next their Religion and as a farewell end all in a compendium of her Emperors I will offer you their Alphabet writ in their owne Character to which if I add somwhat of their present Language it may both shew thee the affinity it has with the Saxon in many words for from the Sacae a people neere Mount Taurus they borrow both Name and Descent and peradventure benefit the future Traveller Aleph bea tea sea Icam hea chea taul zaul. rea zea zean sheen saut zaud. ctea zcea. me kine phea caufe coffe Lom meam nuen wow Loomealephloy yea 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Cumque superba foret Babilon spolianda trop●oets English Persian GOD VVHoddaw the Sunne Afta the Moone Maw a Starre Nacosh the Sky Kabowdas a Cloud Sephyte the Earth Zameen Emperour Pot-shaw King Shaw Queene or Empresse Beggoon Prince Mirza Duke Cawn Marquesse Beglerbeg Earle Sultan Lord Beg Lady Conna Lords sonne Beg-Zedday Gentleman Awgaw Merchant Soldager Souldier Cowzel-bash Lord Ambassador Elchee-beg President Visyer Judge Cauzee or Caddi Justice Darraguod Chancellor Mordaer Constable Calentar Purveyor Mammandar a Christian Franghee a Moorish beleever Mussulman a Jew Iehewd an Armenian Armenee Persian Farsee Indian Mogull Georgian Gorgee Sarcashan Carcash Turk Tork A Church Dear a High Priest Mustaed-dini an Arch-Bishop Kalyph a Priest Mulai a holy man Hodgee a begging Fryer Abdall a Saint Meer a Prophet Emoom a Prophets son Syet Emoomzedda a holy Father Padre a Father Bobbaw a Mother Mamma Madre a Brother Broder a Sister Qhvaar a Sonne Zedda a Daughter Daughter a Boy Oglan Pissar a Girle Daughter a Mayden Whotoon a Cosen Choul a Friend Memam a Slave Colloom a Servant Marda a Foot-man Shooter a Groom Mitar-bashe a Cook Ash-pash a Butler Suffrage a Barbar Syrtrash a Physitian Hackeam a Doctresse Dayah a Mountebanck Shytan-Tabyb a Scribe Vikeel an Interpretor Callamaehé a speech or lang Zavoan a Mechanick Oastad a Man Adam a Woman Zan the Head Serry Hayre