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A58159	A collection of curious travels & voyages in two tomes ... / by John Ray ...	Ray, John, 1627-1705.; Rauwolf, Leonhard, ca. 1540-1596. Seer aanmerkelyke reysen na en door Syrien t́ Joodsche Land, Arabien, Mesopotamien, Babylonien, Assyrien, Armenien, &c. in t́ Jaar 1573 en vervolgens gedaan. English.; Staphorst, Nicolaus, 1679-1731.; Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564.	1693 (1693)	Wing R385; ESTC R17904	394,438	648

below Bagadet and at length fall into the Persian Gulf by the Town Balsora or Batzera They are pious and honest People innocent but very zealous in their Religion and receive Strangers readily that come to them and give them Lodging as I have often found it in my Travels They are also very much inclined to help and assist the poor Slaves that are under Turkish Confinement and ready to help them out Their Merchants whereof there are many amongst them are dispersed not only over all Turkey but also Persia the Indies and many other Countries wherefore they have in all chief Towns of Trading as Antiochia Alepo situated in Coelosyria Orpha c. their peculiar Ware-houses and Churches and also in Jerusalem whither they go in great numbers the beautiful Church of St. Jacob the Greater and also below near to the place of Sculls another Chapel locked up c. and have commonly before their Chancels large Hangings behind which the Priests keep separated from the People These although they agree in very many Points and Articles exactly with those of the Reformed Religion yet notwithstanding they have some Errors worth to be rejected and some scandalous Customs besides So you may see them here and there cry over the Graves of their deceased Friends for to give them Visits they go out in the morning early the greater part of them old Women and there they make such Mourning and and Howling that the Travellers that come by for their Graves or burying places are generally out of Town near the High Ways may hear them a great way off There you shall see them sit some folding their Hands over their Heads and looking mournfully others fetching great Sighs beating on their Breasts others spreading themselves over the Graves as if they would embrace their Friends and take them in their Arms. In the mean while their Priests go about among them Reading and Praying and sometimes they speak to some of them When they have done mourning thus and cast Sorrows from their Hearts sufficiently they sit down together eat drink and be merry They do not at all esteem the Popes of Rome but have their own Prelates which they honour with great and peculiar Reverence neither do they believe any Indulgences nor Purgatory Their Priests go in plain Habits they have Wives as well as their Laymen they let their Hair and Beards grow they keep on Easter-day a great Feast and soon after beginneth their Lent which they keep strictly and therein as also on Wednesday and Friday all the year round they eat neither Eggs nor Flesh nor any thing else that ever had life in it only Saturdays and Sundays they are allowed them to refresh themselves other Feasts and Holydays they do not keep any at all In all these points they rather agree with the Abyssines than the Romans and also in these following viz. That they eat not of unclean Meats that are forbidden in the Old Testament they admit to the Communion young and old without distinction they baptize their Children in the Name of the Holy Trinity they believe the Articles of our Christian Faith they Preach Sing Pray and perform all their Devotion in the Vulgar Tongue that every one may understand it they use for the Interpretation of the Word of God the Writings of John Chrysostom and Gregory Nazianzen they dare not no more than all the other Nations that live amongst the Turks except the Maronites make use of any Clocks to call People to Church in place whereof they have strong wooden Tables or some House-Doors prepared several in each Street whereon they strike several Strokes with a great Cudgel and so call People to Church CHAP. XV. Of the NESTORIANS TOwards the East are other People which esteem themselves Christians and among the rest chiefly the Nestorians called after the Heretick Nestorius who was a Bishop at Constantinople Some of their Priests live upon the Mount Calvaria in the Temple and there are a great many Adherents to this Sect most of them living in Mesopotamia Chaldaea and Assyria but chiefly in the mountainous Country of the Curtans called Carduci by Ptolomy which they almost quite possess and have poisoned with their base and obnoxious Error as if it were by an infectious Air for in passing through I have found many of them in their Cities as Hapril Carcuck Mosel formerly called Ninive They are strong and warlike People but full of Vices and from their Infancy given to robbing They inhabit towards North and East as is before said upon the Armenians and Medes and they are a very ancient People whereof chiefly Xenophon maketh mention under the name of Carducci and are called to this day Curters They speak their peculiar Language which neither the Arabians Armenians nor Turks do understand they are of a Brownish Colour like unto the Surians and Maronites and wear the same Cloth or Habiliments that one cannot readily discern or distinguish one from the other save only by their flesh-coloured Lists in their Turbants The Grand Signior is their Head whom they obey and they are kept and respected very well by the Turks partly that he may not give them occasion for an Insurrection because they are upon the Borders and partly because Mahomet hath charged them to be kind to them before others and that the rather because he had a Friar of their Sect called Sergius for his Tutor who did baptize him and counselled and assisted him to make such Laws and to give them to his Adherents and so you may still see that they agree more than any other Sect with the Saracens For whereas they believe that in Christ according to his two Natures are two distinct persons one of the Godhead the other of the Manhood They will not allow any more than Mahomet the Virgin Mary to to be the Mother of God but the Mother of Christ according to his human Nature They have a Prelate in stead of the Pope whom they call Jacelich They bless and give the Sacrament as the Surians do and use in their Spiritual Services the Chaldean Language else they speak the common of their Provinces viz. in their own Country as is abovesaid their own Language in Chaldea and Mesopotamia commonly the Arabian and Saracen Language So in Assyria beyond the River Tigris where the two mighty Princes the Turk and the King of Persia do border upon one another the Language of the Turks Persians and Medes altho they are quite differing These and other Languages the holy Apostles did understand and in them they did speak on the Day of Pentecost when they received the Holy Ghost as you may read in the Second Chapter of the Acts Verse 5. where it is thus written And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews devout men out of our every nation under Heaven each whereof heard the Apostles speak in his own Language wherein he was born as that of the Parthians Medes Elamits or Persians that of those also

Maronites that have lived long before in these Mountains with whom he hath lately renewed the old Confederacy again as I know very well and their Patriarch himself was with him before I was called to cure him of his Distemper He also leaveth no Stone unturned to get in with others and to make them his Confederates so he hath already secured to himself the Syrians which are also Christians yet not without gross Errors by paying to them a yearly Pension These speak also Arabick and are very like unto them in Shape Manners Fashion and Cloaths and I sound two of them among our Seamen that confirmed this to me After we had gone on a great while and were passed by the Point of the Promontory of Baruti which extendeth it self far into the Sea our Ship-Master who was a Turk and understood the Arabian Language shewed me a Village lying beyond it called Burgi and told me that that was also inhabited altogether by Harani Quibir that is great Robbers and Murtherers as they always call these People But I being better informed before-hand I prayed by my self that God would be pleased to let the poor Slaves that live in hard Servitude under the Turks who were these they call Harani and I do not at all question but they would soon take their Refuge to them to make themselves free of their Servitude as those might easily do that live about these Countries in Syria We saw also upon the Shoar some ancient Towers and among them chiefly two which are renewed again wherein the Trusci keep Watches to observe the Pirates but the others whereof there are a great many not above a League distant from one another are for the greatest part by Age decayed Some say that they were formerly built by the potent Emperors that if any Nation should rise up in Rebellion they might immediately give notice thereof to Constantinople These gave notice before Guns were invented in the Night by a flaming Fire and by Day-time by a great Smoak And they still keep to this in many places altho Guns are now invented In the Afternoon we were becalmed and so our Journey went on but slowly we saw late at Night a small Village called Carniola upon the height and soon after at the Foot of the high Mount of Libanus Southward of the City of Sidon by the Inhabitants still called Scida which is not very great but as far as I could see very well built and defended by two Castles one whereof is situated towards the North on a high Rock the other on a little Hill Those that are going to Saphet which is a Days Journey distant from it land there Before we could reach it Night befel us and brought contrary Winds which hindered us so much that we could hardly reach the glorious and rich Town of Tyrus now by the Inhabitants called Sur which lieth in a manner close to it until the next Morning This is still pretty large and lieth on a Rock in the Sea about Five hundred Paces distant from the Shoar of Phenicia In former Ages Alexander the Great did besiege it for Seven Months and during the Siege he filled up the Streight of the Sea and did join it to the Continent and after he had taken it he laid it into Ashes so that Punishment was inflicted on the Inhabitants which the Prophet Esaias denounced against them Four hundred years before On the Confines of Tirus and Sidon that Cananean Woman came to Christ on behalf of her Daughter that was possessed of an unclean Spirit whereof the Lord seeing her Faith did deliver her immediately Just before it we heard a great noise of large running Springs which rise within the Country with so great a vehemency that they drive several Mills Within a large distance from thence we saw a very fine new House called Nacora Two Miles farther near Mount Saron within Southward we saw a large Village called Sib without it in the Sea round about were several Banks and Rocks behind which we hid our selves the Wind being contrary and staid for a more favourable one in the mean while some of our Men got out among the Rocks to catch Fish and to find Oisters where they also gathered so much Sea-salt that they filled up a great Sack with it Between this and Mount Carmelo which are Eight Leagues distant and run out a great way into the Seas lieth almost in the middle thereof as it were in a Half Moon the famous Town of Acon anciently called Ptolemais on a high Rocky Shoar which some years ago when Baldewin the Brother of Gotefrid first and Guidon after him did possess themselves of the Holy Land was not without great Loss of many Men taken by them from Saladine King of the Saracens in Aegypt which had after some obtained Victories surrendered it self again a second time after a long Siege This Town hath very good Fields of a fertil Soil about it and is at this time together with the Land of Promise and others to the great grief of the Christians subjected under the Yoak and Slavery of the Turkish Emperor The next Day the Wind favouring us we hoisted up our Sails and got out at Sea with less danger to get before the Point of the Mountain but our Design was frustrated for about Noon a contrary Wind arose which did not only hinder us in our Course but violently drove us back again so that we were forced to have recourse to our old Shelter behind the Rocks again After Midnight when it began to be calm and another Wind arose we put out two hours before Break of Day and went all along the Shoar towards the Town Hayphe formerly called Caypha or Porphyria Four Leagues beyond Acon lying just within Mount Carmel where on the Evening when we came very near it several Frigats came out of all sides to surround us As soon as the Master of our Ship perceived them he did not like it wherefore he let fall his Sails and exhorted his Men to ply their Oars warmly to get clear of them When they saw they could not reach us they left their Design and went back but we landed without on that Mount Carmelo to put out again in the Night This Mountain is very high and famous in Scripture for we read in the Third Book of the Kings and the Eighteenth Chapter that the holy Prophet Elias called before him upon the Hill the People of Israel the Four hundred and Fifty of Baal's Priests and and the Four hundred of Hayns to chide them for their Idolatry where also God heard him and consumed his Sacrifice by Fire that came down from Heaven but the Priests of Baal were not only not heard by their Idols but kill'd as Idolaters near the River Kison and also in the Fifth of the Epistle of James that after the Heavens had been lock'd up for the space of three years and a half Elias did pray to God on this same Mount and the

strange Origanum Tragoriganum Roman Mother of Time Spicanardi and a peculiar sort of Coniza c. At the foot of the Mount they shew us first a great Church between the Rivolet Cedron and the Valley of Josaphat which was so covered with Earth that you could see nothing of it but the Entry and before it without a large place three steps deep This Church was built by Helena Mother of Constantine the Emperor and called the Sepulchre of our Lady the Mother of God to go into it you must go down 44 steps Within it toward the right there is a small Chapel where they say our Lady was Buried and therefore by the Benevolence of the Pope there is distributed and given to the Pilgrims full forgiveness of all Transgressions and Punishments for ever Some are of Opinion That this Church did formerly stand even with the Ground and that after the Devastation of Jerusalem when part of the Valley of Josaphat was filled up it was covered thus over This Church stands as Nicephorus saith in his 8th Book and the 30th Chapter on that place where the Village Gethsemane stood whereby the Garden was whither our dear Lord Christ did just before his Passion go with his Eleven Disciples after he had Eaten the Paschal Lamb with them and given Thanks according to his usual Custom over the Rivolet of Cedron to regain us that which was formerly lost by our Ancestors in the Garden There he left his Eight Disciples while he went to Pray as the Scripture telleth us when he took with him Peter James and John the two Sons of Zebedeus and began to mourn to quake and to tremble and said to them My soul is sorrowful unto death stay here watch with me and pray that you enter not into temptation and he withdrew from them about a Stones cast where he kneeled down fell three times on his face and prayed to his Heavenly Father where he wrestled with Death and Sweat a bloody Sweat so that an Angel must come down from Heaven at last to Comfort him This place is underneath a great Rock that hangeth over a great Cave just at the Entry of the Valley of Josaphat This Valley is still where it cometh down from the Mount of Olives pretty deep and is called by the holy Prophet Joel the Valley of Judgment as you may read in his 3d Chapter 14 Verse which words of Joel give us to understand that the Lord as he was when he came first upon Earth in this Valley taken Prisoner Bound and carried away to the place of his bitter Suffering Crucifixion and Dying so he shall in his second and glorious coming appear in this Valley of Judgment again to Judge all people of the whole Earth c. that then the Impious shall see whom they have pierced Zacharias speaks also of it in the above-mentioned place As you go from thence to the Mount of Olives you see below towards your left hand near unto the Bridge of the River Cedron an old square Building like unto a Steeple This altho it is believed to this day not only by Christians but also by the Turks and Moors to be the Grave of Absalom as you shall see them fling Stones into it as they go by to revenge his Undutifulness shewn to his Father King David yet notwithstanding he was not Buried there as we read in the 2d Book of Samuel the 18th Chapter Vers 17. And they took Absalom and cast him into a great pit in the wood and laid a very great heap of stones upon him Yet for all this when Absalom was alive as you may farther read in the before-mention'd Chapter he erected a Column in the Kings Dale for he said I have no Son therefore this shall be for a remembrance of my Name and called this Pillar after his Name and it is still called to this day Absaloms Place Of this Pillar writes also Josephus in the 7th Book of his Antiquities and the 10th Chapter saying And Absalom did erect a Kingly Column of Marble in the Valley Genes chap. 14. it is called the Kings Valley that is two Furlongs from Jerusalem Just by this Pillar beginneth a very steep Foot-Path which parts a little above it into two one whereof goeth Southward at the bottom of the Mount of Olives towards Bethania and Jericho c. down through the Valley that is made by this and the other part of the Hill called Mashit in the 4th of the Kings Chap. 23. but the other goeth over the height of the Mount of Olives out by Bethania to the House of Mary and Martha A little higher on this Hill did our Saviour sit over against the Temple when he foretold his Disciples that shewed him the glorious Buildings thereof That not one Stone should remain upon another that should not be thrown down And did also tell them at length the terrible and prodigious Signs that should come to pass before the Desolation of Jerusalem and the end of the World To this day we still see into the Turkish Mosque with its large Paved Court-yard over the Walls thereof so perfectly that you may distinguish almost the Persons that walk there From thence when you go up to the Hill which is very steep and rough there is a large Plain from whence our dear Lord Jesus Christ was taken up and ascended into Heaven as you may see by the words of the Holy Evangelist St. Luke in his first Chapter of the Acts Verse 9. where he saith And he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight And Verse 12. Then returned they unto Jerusalem from the Mount called Olivet which is from Jerusalem a Sabbath-days journey On this place as Nicephorus mentioneth did Queen Helena also afterward Build a stately Church which now is so decayed that there is no more to be seen of it but a New built Chapel in a large Yard surrounded with a Wall Just by it on a Hill of the Mount towards the North and Galilea there is an old decayed Building which was formerly as my Guide informed me an Inn for the Galileans where commonly did take up those that went to Jerusalem from Galilea Wherefore they are of opinion that some of them were there in the time of Christ that also were Spectators of his Glorious Ascension as it doth appear by the Words of the two Angels that spoke to them and said You men of Galilea why stand you here gazing up into Heaven c. But if you duly consider these words you will find as you read it in the Second Chapter of the Acts Verse 7. that the Apostles themselves were these Galileans where it is written Behold are not all those which speak Galileans and how hear we every man in our own tongue c. So did also the holy Angels speak to the Apostles after the same manner and called them Galileans rather to bring them as Elders of the Christian Church off their worldly thoughts