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A64545	A relation of the voyage to Siam performed by six Jesuits, sent by the French King, to the Indies and China, in the year, 1685 : with their astrological observations, and their remarks of natural philosophy, geography, hydrography, and history / published in the original, by the express orders of His Most Christian Majesty ; and now made English, and illustrated with sculptures.; Voyage de Siam des pères jésuites. English	Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712.	1688 (1688)	Wing T96; ESTC R16161	188,717	400

that God grants me life that hereafter my Successors and Subjects shall on all occasions testifie as well as I the grateful acknowledgment and high esteem which they ought to have for the Royal Person of his most Christian Majesty and for all his Successors This was the answer of the King of Siam in the same terms that he delivered it to his Minister and as he gave it in writing to my Lord Ambassador The wit of that Prince sufficiently appears by that reasoning who without any knowledge of the Sciences of Europe hath alledged with so much force and perspicuity the most plausible reasons of the Pagan Philosophy against the only true Religion They who know the uprightness of that Prince cannot doubt but that he sincerely said what he thought and what seemed to him most rational The King having said so was silent for some time and then eyeing the Lord Constance The Lord Constance his Reply to the King of Siam's Objections about changing of Religion What do you think added he the Ambassador will answer to these Reasons which I command you to give him in writing I shall not fail Sir answered the Lord Constance to obey your Majesties Orders but I cannot tell what the Ambassador of France will answer to what you have now said to me which seems to be of very great weight and consequence Sure I am he must needs be surprised at the high wisdom and wonderful perspicuity that he 'll perceive thereby in your Majesty However I fancy he may answer that it is true all the Beings which God hath Created Glorifie him every one after its way but that there is this difference betwixt Man and Beasts that when God Created these be gave them different properties and particular instincts to know what is good for them and pursue it without any reflection to discern their evil and avoid it without any ratiocination So the Stag flies from the Lion and Tyger the first time he sees them the Chickens new hatched dread the Kite and flie under the wings of the Hen without any other instruction but what they have received from Nature But in the Creation of Man God hath endowed him with a Mind and Reason to distinguish the Good from the Evil and Divine Providence hath thought it fit that in pursuing and loving the good which is proper for him and avoiding the evil that is contrary to him with reference to his ultimate end which is to know and love God Man should from the Divine Bounty merit an eternal Reward The truth is it is as easie for Man to make use of his hands eyes and feet in the commission of evil as in doing of good if his prudence enlightned by the Wisdom of God directed him not to pursue the ways of real Grandeur which are not to be found but in the Christian Religion wherein Man finds the means of serving God as best pleases his Divine Goodness But all Men follow not so holy and so rational notices It is just so as with your Majesties Officers who are not all equally addicted to your Interests as you but too well know tho all of them call themselves your Subjects and account it an honour to be employed ●in your Service So all Men serve God it is true but in a very different manner Some like Beasts follow their Passions and irregular appetites and live in the Religion they have been brought up in without examining it But others perceiving so great a difference betwixt themselves and Beasts raise themselves above their senses and by means of their Reason which God fails not to enlighten endeavour to know their Creator and the true Worship which he would have men render unto him without any interest but that of pleasing him and to this sincere search of the truth God Almighty hath annexed Mans Salvation Hence it is that negligence in not being instructed and weakness in not following that we judge the best will render us guilty in the sight of God who is the Sovereign Judge of all Flesh This answer from a Man of no Studies who from ten years of age had been applied to Trade and Commerce wrought a great surprize in me when he did me the honour to acquaint me with it I confessed to him without any fear of flattery that a Divine consummated in the Study of Religion would have been hard put to it to have answered better The King was smitten with the discourse of the Lord Constance and if any knowing Man who is acceptable to him hath the happiness to insinuate into his favour and procure his esteem it is not to be dispaired but that he may be brought to know and embrace the Truth and if once he come to know it seeing he is the absolute Master of his People who adore him all the Nations who are under his Dominion will humbly follow his example The King of Siam who Reigns at present is about fifty five years of Age. A Character of the King of Siam He is without contradiction the greatest Prince that ever governed that State. He is somewhat under the middle Stature but streight and well shaped He hath an engaging Air a sweet and obliging carriage especially to Strangers And amongst them particularly to the French. He is active and brisk an enemy of idleness and laziness which seems to be so delightful to the Princes of the East and which they look upon as the greatest Prerogative of their Crown This Prince on the contrary is always either in the Woods a hunting of Elephants or in his Palace minding the Affairs of his Kingdom He is no lover of War because it ruins his People whom he tenderly loves but when his Subjects revolt or that neigbouring Princes offer him the least affront or transgress the bounds of the respect that 's due to him there is no King in the East that takes a more conspicuous revenge nor appears more passionate for glory Some great men of his Kingdom having rebelled and having been openly supported by the Forces of three Kings whose Territories environ the Kingdom of Siam He attacked those Princes so briskly that they were obliged to abandon the Rebels to his wrath He would know every thing and having a pregnant and piercing Wit he easily is Master of what he has a mind to learn. He is magnificent generous and as true a friend as can be imagined These are the great qualities which acquire him the difference of his Neighbours the fear of his Enemies the esteem and respect of his Subjects that 's nothing short of adoration He hath never been given to those vices which are so common to the Princes of the East nay he hath severely punished the most considerable Mandarins and principal Officers of the Crown for being too much addicted to their pleasures So that the most invincible obstacle to the Conversion of Idolatrous Princes is not to be found in him I mean the immoderate love of Women By the

sharpness of his Wit he hath discovered the erroneousness of the Religion of his Ancestors And he does not believe an annihilated God according to the Popular opinion or as some of their Doctors say a God who weary of governing the Heavens plunges himself to repose and for ever buries himself in the forgetfulness of what passes in the world nor a thousand other Superstitions preached by the Talapoins who are the Preachers and Priests of the Kingdom On the contrary he believes that God is Eternal that his Providence continually governs the World and disposes of all things To the same immortal God he often makes his Prayers and implores his assistance with most profound Reverence at least twice a Day for two hours time in the Morning after he is up and at Night before he goes to rest The Pope having sent him two Pictures one of our Saviour and the other of the Blessed Virgin he hath a singular veneration for them and as a sign thereof hath placed them in a very high place of his Chamber far above him and never speaks of them but with honour and respect The Embassy which the King sent to him if it hath not determined him to embrace Christianity hath at least made him reflect and consider As he has an extraordinary esteem for the wisdom of the most Christian King so when the Lord Constance explained to him the sole reason that moved that great Monarch to send the Ambassador to him he seemed affected therewith and it is known that he hath many times reflected thereupon since These are considerations that should excite those who may read these momoires to pray to God for the Conversion of that Prince which would be attended with the Conversion of an innumerable multitude of People and which without doubt would gain to our holy Law the neighbouring Princes who admire the conduct and parts of the King of Siam There lye great obligations upon us to that Monarch for all the marks of esteem and good will wherewith he was pleaased to honour us and we are glad we have the occasion of publishing the same from the time that the Lord Constance made him sensible of our ways and the prospects that put us upon acting that Prince favoured us upon all occasions notwithstanding the bad impressions that some endeavoured to give him of Jesuits The Lord Constance omitted not to set off to him to the best advantage the extraordinary goodness that the King of France hath for our company and that 's the thing that contributed most to make us merit his favours It is an Example of great influence upon the mind of the King of Siam and so indeed he hath by obliging cares intimated to us that he will imitate it and hath often assured us of his Royal protection and that we should never fail of a safe refuge in his Kingdom We began to make observations at Louvo So soon as we arrived at Louvo we begun to make observations and especially such as might be needful to us for observing exactly the Ecclipse of the Moon which was to happen on the Eleventh of December We could not till then make use of our Instruments for these operations because all the while we were at Siam the City and Country about were so overflown that we had no place to fix them upon Nay and the house too where we lodged being only of Wood the least motion made it so shake that our Pendulums and Quadrants were thereby wholy disordered December the sixth and seventh we observed by the Astronomical Ring of Mr. Butterfield Observation about the variation of the Needle that the variation of the Needle was two degrees twenty Minutes towards the West This observation was constantly alike during those two days The ninth of the same Month by the heights taken of the same border of the Sun Morning and Evening the true hour of Noon by the Pendulum with Seconds was 12 h. 5. 3. The variation of the Needle by the Parallatick Engine of the Sieur Chapotot was observed One time 16. min. only Another 31. min. Another 35. min. Another 38. min. Towards the West That variation was found by taking several times Morning and Evening the height of the Sun and every time observing the Azimuth the Needle still continuing upon the Line of the South and North. In the last Audience that his Majesty gave the Ambassador The King of Siam observes with the Jesuits an Ecclipse of the Moon in his Palace he told him that he would take it well that we made the observation of the first Ecclipse in his presence Some days after he commanded the Lord Constance to acquaint us with the honour he intended to put upon us For that effect they pitched upon a Royal house called Thlee-Poussonne a short League from Louvo Eastwards not far from the Forrest where the King was a hunting of Elephants The Lord Constance carried us to view the place two days before the Ecclipse that 's to say the ninth of December A more convenient place could not have been chosen we saw the Heavens on all hands and had room enough to place our Instruments Having put all things in order we came back to Louvo Next day December the tenth by the Elevations of the same border of the Sun taken in the Morning betwixt nine and ten a Clock and in the Evening betwixt two and three the true hour of Noon by the same Pendulum with Seconds was 12. h. 2. 31. The variation of the Needle by the Parallatick Engine One time 28 min. Another 33 min. Another 21 min. Towards the West In the sequel we shall examine whether or no the Needle of the Astronomical Ring decline too much towards the West as it is very probable for if so then something is to be deducted from the variation of the Cape of good Hope which we found to be Eleven degrees and a half towards the West and the Pilots with their Compasses only nine degrees The King of Siam invites the Ambassador to an Elephant hunting The same day the King invited my Lord Ambassador to come and see the Illuminations that were made for the hunting of Elephants It was his Majesties pleasure that we also should be there and did us the honour about four in the Afternoon to send us six Elephants with the Barcalon Lieutenant to be our guide We sent to Thlee-poussonne our Telescope and a spiral Pendulum that went very right and was set by the Sun. For we were to observe the Ecclipse there according to the Orders The Kings method of the hunting was in the manner that I am now about to relate About fourty six or fourty seven thousand men had surrounded and made an inclosure in the Woods and upon the Mountains of a long square A description of that hunting whereof the two great sides might very well be ten Leagues a piece and the other two each three Leagues All that vast extent was bordred by two