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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39724	A relation of ten years in Europe, Asia, Affrique, and America all by way of letters occasionally written to divers noble personages, from place to place, and continued to this present year / by Richard Fleckno.	Flecknoe, Richard, d. 1678?	1656 (1656)	Wing F1232; ESTC R24329	76,341	184

Evening and fell to Seaward of us when full glad and joyful were we but 't was but a short Joy and Gladnesse for the next morning by break of day two Turkish Galleys from a nest of Rocks where they ordinarily sculk called the Collybre on the Spanish coast made towards us amain neither could our best defence of flight avail us now the Sea all becalm'd and winds breathlesse as we were our selves for fear our ship though call'd the Hercules being of small defence since ne Hercules contra duos what is Hercules against two whilst those Catterpillars the Galleys on their Oares as on so many feet made towards us a main at which we looking about us as People in danger do who would be glad to run away might espy a far off those two ships had given us the chase o'r night which comforting us not a little we gave them a warning-piece at all adventures to advertise them of our danger when presently we might behold them tack about and make up towards us which the Turks and we joyntly perceiving we suddenly chang'd minds Fear departing from us to them and Courage from them to us and they of chasers now becom our chase whilst we incompassing them with our three Ships as Hunters with their Toils doe wild Beasts or so many Greyhounds would a Hare gave them a turn or two now from the Spanish shore towards Barbary and now back agen till at last they escap'd away before us on the strength of their Oars whilst our flagging sayls seem'd to chide and murmur at the winds deserting them This danger past we has'd out our Boat and went aboard the other ships to thank them for their timely Aid whom we found to be two Holland men of warre the Tergo●se and the Lewarder part of a Squadron whose Admiral was in Portugal sent out with expresse Commission to scour the Seas of Turks and Pirats with the Vice Admiral of whom I presently making Acquaintance he easily invited me along with him to Lisbon ● being not secure in the other Ship where I was so altering my course from Spain to Portugal and changing ships I began a new Voyage on Sea without ever going to Land Thence we sail'd along the Spanish coast from Cap● to Cape escaping a little danger nigh Cape de Pales of driving on Land our Cable sheering whilst we lay at Anchor there to make provision of fiering in a Juniper wood nigh Carthagene the King of Spain being not more absolute Lord on Land than we were on his Seas hasing all ships in keen of us every one contributing somewhat to us of Sea provisions til at last drawing nigh the Str●ights the shore now on both sides affording us a delightfull prospect betwixt the steep Rocks of Gibraltar on the Spanish coast and the Embattaild walls of Zent● situated on the high Mountains on the Barbary shore in less than 5 or 6 hours we pass'd all the streits and out of the Mediterranean Sea past into the Grand Ocean when steering our course directly towards Portugal within som two days after we arived at Cascais in the mouth of Lisbon Road where I landed some 5 or 6 weeks after my depart from Provence and took leave of my Hollander who had treated me most courteously and nobly all the way neither did I ever meet with any of that Nation more a Gentleman than he Of his Arival to LISBON And now behold me my Lord safely arived in Portugal at Cascais some twelve English miles from Lisbon where the Governour besides the ordinary vice of that Nation the foolisher the wiser they pretend to be would needs play the States-men and be wiser than the Truth in suspecting me for some Spi● or else come thither upon some great design and so presently he sent me to Lisbon with a Souldier along with me with express order not to leave me till he had deliverd me to the Secretary of State who being altogether as great a Politician as my Governour made great difficulty of my stay in the Country till spying my Lute the suspition I was a Musician as clavis clavem pellit soon drove out of his head the suspition that I was a Spy so lodging me by way of Caution in an English Gentlemans house a great Confident of the Kings till he might inform his Majestie of me who being an excellent Musician was covetous of knowing all Strangers of that profession He no sooner understood of my arival but he sent for me to Court and was so well satisfied with me as continuing my Lodging in Mr. Iohn Muley's the same English Gentlemans house than which the whole Town afforded not more noble accommodation The next day he sent for me again where after some two or three hours tryal of my skill especially in the composative part of Musick in which his Majesty chiefly exceeded I past Court Doctor though Don Emanuel Sa Grand Chamberlain to the King swore 't was rather a tryal for a Doctor in an Universitie than a Gentleman in the Court After this his Majestie was pleased to assign me a certain Cavallier of th' Order to whom I was to addresse my self for Audience and accesse to his person as often as I pleas'd Mean time Regis ad exemplum I was lookt upon with particular regard by all passing most of my time in Mr. Muley's Kinta or Garden house some three or four English mile from Lisbon whose Amenity I cannot better set before your Eyes than in this following Copy of Verses Where in a Vale near Tagus Golden side Through all the world renowned far and wide Though now for Silver waters famed more Than e'r it was for Golden sands before Circled with fruitfull Olives Vines and Corn A Pallas Ceres Bacchus there were born A Kinta stands so situated t' has Resort unto ' r of every Rurall Grace And Rurall Graces are in Summer far Iollier than those of Towns in Winter ar Whose fairest Garden 's planted round withall Those Trees wee fruitfull and delicious call As Orange Lymon Apricock and Peach Whose rudier sides do Nimphs their blushing teach Silk animating Mulberies spreading wide Pomegranads Figs and hundred more beside Under whose leaves the Sun-shine all the day Delights with dancing beams to sport and play Whilst to its Walks each cooling wind dos come T' asswage the Calenture o' th' burning Sun Here whilst I often us'd to make resort To quicken the dull pleasures of the Court One day my Muse that ne'r in any place More present to me nor propitious was Appear'd to me in all her best aray And this to th' Kinta's Glory bid me say How all the Gardens of th' Hesperides Semiram's pensil ' ones Alcinous'es Lucullus's nor Seneca's to boot Compar'd but unto this were nothing too t XX To Doctor Hart at Rome from Lisbon Anno 48. Concerning some rep●rts of him at ROME Deer Doctor THere are some places as some persons better agreeing with our Genius and disposition than others and if

for some admirable thing as indeed this is It being a certain animated stick like the end of some small twig some fingers length out of the joynts of which there grow out leggs by pairs on which it crawls like walking Tressles nor can you perceive any other life it has nor any other part of living Creature as Eyes Mouth c. I finding one of them crawling on me as I walked forth into the Woods which tyed with a Thrid and fastned to a bough I kept long time in my Chamber not perceiving any sustenance it took often peircing it to find if it had any sence it alwayes crawling in the the same manner about until at last it vanished I know not how but that which molested me most of all was a certain kind of anima●ed dust which insensibly ingenders to worms in your feet as big as Magots in a cheese which unless they be carefully extracted leave each one the seeds behind of a hundred more these was I grievously tormented with for a month together so as I could not stir but as I was carryed in a Hamatta nor did I ever know before how near confining pain and pleasure was ● at their first ingendring in my feet being assaulted with so fierce an itch as 't was the greatest pleasure in the world to scratch it which presently was succeeded by so intollerable a pain as I never remember to have felt the like Of the Salvages or Natives of Brasil Of the Natives or Inhabitants what shall I say but if as Iohn Baptista de porta says every Nation has resemblance to some certain beast or Animal certainly these Brasilians are most like Asses dull and phlegmatick in servitutem nati and only fit for to●l and druggery which is the reason Nature perhaps provided that Country with neither Horse nor Asse nor any beast of carriage or burthen besides themselves yet are they rather squat than robust with broad Bodies and little Leggs small Eyes of sallow sickly complexion ill featured with black and greezy hair nor curl'd nor dangling but flagging Ill-favouredly about their Ears going for the most part all naked both Men and Women with only some rag to hide their privy parts which you would never desire to see you ar so disgusted with the rest they being all Christians but such as put me in mind of that sentence of Holy Scripture Homines et Iumenta salvabis Domine that the Lord will save both Man and Beast for surely they are both having not wit enough to commit ingenious Vices nor Temperance enough to abstain from brutal ones and thus much for those who live among the Portugals betwixt which and the other Savag's I imagin there is as much difference as between wild Beast and tame neither can I believe what is reported of their fiercenesse though all that is reported of their ferity I do as their eating one the other and having not so much as a word in their language signifying nor God nor King nor Law for were they so fierce as 't is reported certainly they would never have yeelded their Country up so tamely to the Portugal nor suffer them to enjoy it so quietly as they do But to return to my tame Salvages I hired 4 of them for a journey I made by Land to carrry my Hamatta whilst tother two ran Lacqueying by which was on this manner Your Hamatta is a certain cotton Net about the bignesse of a Blancket drawn together at each end and fastned by a strong Line to a Cane as big and long as a Colstaff carryed on their Shoulders where you sit or lye in what posture you please on a Boulster or Pillow far more easily than in any Licter the Portuguez men having a Negro carrying a Parasol or Umbrella to shadow them from the Sun whilst the Women are shadowed and defended from publique sight by some rich coverture thrown over the Hamatta with two Negro Maids going by their sides to help them up and put on their ●hoppinas when the Net 's laid down and they rise to go out of it to any place In one of these was I carryed some twenty miles a day more or lesse ● according as the way was more plain or mountainous covenanting with my Savages for a small matter in money besides my finding them dyet which was only a little farina de pan or bread made of the root of a certain Tree as we have said before for the rest they rather finding me for to our Farina we had ordinarily no other meat but Fish of which at every plash of water where they came but casting in their hooks they took enough for twenty men when we presently made fires upon the place and broyl'd them eating them aftewards with the juyce of wild Lymons growing every where in the woods and this with water for our drink was all our sustenance and for our lodging at night we hung up our Hamattas betwixt two Trees and there slept till morning only along the Coast in that tract which the Portug●ls have made to travel by Land from place to place you sail not every second day at most to find some R●ss or Country Farm of the Portuguez where for your money you are well accommodated with all sorts of pullen and fruit One pleasure I had in passing through the woods was to see the Trees full of Apes and Parats as if they had born no other fruit one chasing another with such noise and chattering you could not hear one another speak and you should see those Apes which had young with 2 or 3 claspt about their neck or hanging on their back which they went thus luggering till they waxed big to catch which the Natives would shoot the old ones with their Arrows with which they are the best mark men in the world considering what clouterly Bows and Arrows they shoot withall when the old one tumbling down the young for want of exercizing their Legs had not th' addresse to runne away Of the Commodities of the Country From my Voyage I will return to speak of the Riches of the Country chiefly consisting in their Sugar which when I have named I have named all not that it wants others but that it can want no others having that since that country which abounds with that commodity which all others have need of can never want any commodity which others abound withall For the rest it produces neither Corn nor Wine nor Salt which I attribute not so much to the difference of the Climate as some politique reason to keep them with that necessary dependency on Portugal to vent their commodities and prevent revolt Now for their Sugar thus it grows and thus 't is made Their Sugar canes are prun'd to the heighth of standing corn nor need they other culture but every second year to cut them close by the roots as we do Osiers when against the next year they never fail to spring up agen the flaggs of which Canes