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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

Emanuel his Master suffering Zedfadin to enjoy the Title and a pension of fifteene hundred crownes but all command to himselfe himselfe de facto King and lastly by Emangoly-chan the Arch-Duke of Shyraz by help of the English it was taken An. 1622 and by them delapidat and depopulated Let us view it as it was and is The Altitude of the pole here is 27 degrees and though it be without the torrid zone yet what by the sulphur of the earth and oblique reflex of the burning Sun for foure moneths from May to September no place in the world is more hot or scalding it is the custome here to sleep in beds of rayne water which is not very coole neither all day naked the City had a faire Bazzar many Churches and Frieries brave Magazeens stately houses and as gallant a castle as any other in Orient the castle is yet in good strength and repayre the rest levelled with the ground of which I cannot say Nunc seges ubi Troja fuit the soile being uncapable of corne or other graine at that end against Dozar and the great Bannyan tree in the continent the City was built where the sea is so narrow that a Cannon may easily spit over the whole I le exceeds not fifteene myles compasse it is the most barren ground in the world neither tree nor spring of good water could we find in it It has salt silver shining sand and mineralls of sulphur has nothing else worth the looking on And yet from the advantagious standing the laborious Portugal made it the staple and glory of the world secured indeed by many naturall props on all sides commanding Iles and townes to furnish her Larac Azgillia of old Kishmy by some cald Quexome or Broict Keys or Queys Ile Angen Andreve or de los pasharos Kargh Baharem Icara in Pliny Dozaro Iasques and Kostack in Margastan now Mogestan vicinating them So as to the eye of man no place could be more offensive and defensive garrisons of Portugalls ever lying in these Ilands and yet when the God of Nature had decreed a ruine it could not be withstood but was in some regard miraculously effected and at such a tyme as they least suspected it But to doe her all the favour I can let us remember such Princes as have honourd her Sha-Mahomet is the first I find who in the 80 yeare of the Heg Of Christ 700 left his seat at Aman in Arabia and sat downe at Calciat upon the shoare but disliking it removed to Costac in Mogestan six and twenty leagues from Iasques and there built a city which he cald Ormuz and from whence part of Arabia took name to him succceded Soliman to him Izachan to who Mahobet 2 Shawran-shaw who bequeathed the crowne to his Nephew Emer-sha-bedin-Molong whose daughter and heire married Seyfadin Aben-Ezer sonne to Ally-shaw Lord of Keys Iland the crown they wanting issue then came to Sha-Bedin Mahomet his cozen to whom followed Rocnadin Mamut Hamets son who dying An. Dom. 1278 left the rule to his Infant sonne Seidfadin-Nocerat who was slaine by his brother Morad or Masad eleaven yeares after and he forc't to flie into Kermaen by his brothers servant Mir Bahadin Mir Bahadin Ayaz or Ben-Seyfin Ben-Cabadin is forced to flie unable to resist the Turks Morad brought against him so with many of his friends such as hated the Tyrant removed to Kishny but not liking the place rises thence and sits down at this I le Gerun or wood where he built fortified and from the others name namd it Ormuz in the yeare 1312 of the Heg 692 and to him a man of noble extraction Emir-Azadin-gurdan-shaw to him his sonne Mabare-zadin-babron-sha a brave Prince but fell by the axe of treachery Mir-sha-Bedin-Issuff stroke him with who also fell by the late Princes youngest brother Mirza-Codbadin was he cald infortunately banisht by his cozen Melec-Nozamedin at whose death Cobadin returnd and swayd the Ormousian Scepter and at his death left all to Paca-Turansha a victorious Prince yet by death An. 1488 conquered to him Mozad-sha Bedin to him Salger-sha to him Shawez and to him Safadin or Zedfadin 2 subdued by Albuquerq An. 1507 and by him cruelly strangled Nordino Codjeature and De lam-sha attempted the soverainty but Mahomet the right heire was crowned King he dying his sonne Seyd-Mahomet-sha was called King who Anno 1622 was subdued by the English and Persians and at this day lives a prisoner at Shyraz The Persian now is soveraine The particular Acts and passages in taking this famous Citie is thus for some mens better satisfaction remembred At command of Shaw Abbas the Persian Monarch Emangoly-chawn chiefe Lord and Governour of those Territories that conjoyne the gulph of Persia descends with nine thousand men at such a time as he was confident to meet the English Fleet resolv'd to further them in revenge of those many tyrannies they had endured by the braving Portugall The Conditions betwixt them under hand and seale were these 1. The Castle of Ormus in case it were won with all the Ordnance and Amunition to accrue to the English 2. The Persians were to build another Castle in the I le at their owne cost when and where they pleased 3. The spoile to be equally devided 4. The Christian prisoners to be disposed of by the English the Pagans by the Persians 5. The Persians to allow for halfe the charges of victualls wages shott powder c. 6. And the English to be custome free in Bander-gum-broon for ever The Captaines of best note in the Pagan Army under the Duke of Shyraz were Alliculybeg Pollotbeg Shakulibeg Shareearee Mahomet Sultan and Alybeg King of the Port these with the rest of their Army encamped before Bander-gom-broon and two dayes after viz. the twentieth of Ianuary 1622. with small difficulty became Masters of the Port. Upon which the Duke and the English Captaines Weddall Blyth and Woodcock agreed upon an immediate battery and instantly played upon the Castle with a dozen peeces of Cannon for five houres but gave them small hopes of sudden conquest yet that neither pusillanimity nor doubt might be seene amongst them the ninth of February the English transported three thousand Persians in two Frigots lately taken and two hundred Persian Boats good for little other service these so soone as they were landed having formerly made Sconces or Trenches for their men and Bulwarks for the great Ordnance to play on very furiously they made towards Ormus thinking to meet no great opposall but the Portugalls though they let them land and passe quietly into the Towne with equall resolution stopt the current of their fury at first encounter from their barracadoes defended with shott and pike slaying above three hundred and with their Ordnance beat them back with more haste and amazednesse than their approach had courage in this disorder a Flancker by mischance was blowne up but the warre continued little hurt accruing to either party till the 24 of February on

from the religion they suckt from their cradle amongst Panyms from that rule of Nature Use others as thou would'st others should use thee The Christians in these parts differ in some things from us and the Papacie yet retaine many principles of the Orthodox and Catholick doctrine Le ts enter their Temples Their Churches are low and but poorely furnished their vassalage will reach no further whether from their subjection or that so the Temples of their bodies bee replenisht with vertue the excellency of buildings conferre not holinesse I know not neat they are and sweetly kept matted without seats and insteed of Images have some select and usefull texts of holy Writ obviously writ or painted They assemble and haste to Church each Lords day with great alacrity at their entring they shut their eyes and contemplate the holinesse of the place the exercise they come about and their owne unworthinesse as they kneele they look towards the Altar or Table neere which the Bishop or Preist is seated whom they salute with a low and humble reverence who returnes his blessing by the up-lifting of his hands and eyes at a set houre they begin prayers above two houres seldome continuing first they have a short generall confession which they follow the Priest in and assent in an unanim Amen then followes an Exposition of some part or text of holy Scripture during which their attention dejected lookes and silence is admirable they sing an hymne and at parting out of Church re-salute the Minister who ceases not till all be gone out to elate his hands and blesse them When they are come home they read a chapter in either Testament both which they suppose they have incorrupt after the Originalls and translated for them by Saint Thomas the Apostle and patron of the Orient they have it also in the Chaldy but none save the Clergie understand it every first Sonday in the Month the Priest reads a Sermon out of an old Homily writ as they say by the Apostle or some of his Disciples they Baptise commonly at the 40 day if the Parents do no sooner desire it they first signe the Infant on the forehead with the Crosse and then wash it all over with water the Sacrament of the Lords holy Supper they administer in both kinds the Communicants receive it reverently kneeling they observe two dayes strict preparation during which they eat no flesh revell not accompanie with no women in the Church they confesse their sinnes and demerits with great reluctancy They marry as wee do the Clergie marry but once the Layety but twice widdowes if they marry before the yeere be expired after which their husbands dyed are ill reported of and hazard their joyncture none save for adultery have lycence to part till death sever them In sicknesse the Priest is sent for to comfort them and to give the Eucharist if it bee heartily desired that done they take farwell of their wife and children and all others and so rid themselves of carnall distractions which too oft hinder the desired meditation of the misery of worldlings and by a holy contemplation of the ineffable joyes of heaven strive to mitigate the pangs of their disease yea the grim aspect of approaching Death and the survivers rather joy than mourne as they solemnize his funeral they first wash then wrap the Corps in clean linnen a few selected friends concomitate it to the grave wherein they place it looking not East but West towards Ierusalem five dayes after that they visit his Family They feast and fast as we their Lent or abstinence from flesh and the like begins each spring and is strictly observed fortie dayes without banquet or bravery their yeare is Soli-genian our three cheefe Feastivalls they celebrate in July they commemorate the martyrdome of Saint Thomas they have many Patriarchs or Protomists the cheife resides at a house built upon a high mountaine nine miles from Cranganor Since the Portugalls traded Indya they have shaven their heads the Layicks pay Decimae or Tythes willingly they affect justice truth peace humility obedience c. and acknowledge Saint Thomas some the Eunuch of Arabia converted by Philip their Tutelary Saint and Patron They beleeve no Purgatory May 7 we had 8 degrees and ere Sunne-set darted our eyes upon that high mountaine commonly called Brin Iohn i. e. the Mount of Iohn and revives the British Antiquity Next day we had 7 degrees 30 minutes variation 14 degrees than which that famous Promontory of East-India extends no further towards the Aequator Next day wee sailed by the Maldyvae Iles memoriz'd by Pyrard de Laval who lived there and reports that the King there styles himselfe Emperour of thirteene Provinces and 12000 Ilands most and least any King in the world is owner of Neere these are other Iles Candu Nicubar and Sumbrero by name in the view of Zeyloon and Sumatra to which place and many other I must guide your patience of Zeyloon ZEyloon or Ceylon one of those five Iles Ptolomy calls Barussae was not innominate to the Antients By Ptolomy cald Panigarensis since him in Arab. Authors Sisuara Tenarisis and Nanigeris At this day Zeyloon by us Chingall by the inhabitants an I le spatious rich and famous severed from the Asiatick continent by a small sea not forty Leagues over It is limitted from 8 to 11 deg of latit North the length is about 70 leagues breadth 40 and circuit 250 or thereabouts an I le famous in some old conjectures as that Paradise was here that K. Salomon had hence his obrize gold or gold of Ophyr but I beleeve neither in regard most writers fix the ruines of the one in Mesopotamia and the other rather in Pegu Iava those wealthy places The most memorable is this That Meleck or Melchior Pyramal King of this Iland is thought one of those wise-men premonisht by that prophesy of Balaam the Edomite in Num. 24. 17. that brought as to a King a Priest a Prophet Gold Frank-insence and Myrrh unto our blessed Saviour foretold also by the Persian Sybill and by a new made Starre guided by the finger of God miraculously directed and who at his returne made knowne the mystery of Gods Incarnation for mans redemption by his laborious teaching made many Proselites some to this day by tradition memorising him and reteining somewhat of Christian knowledge though the greatest part bee Apostats and drunk with abominable demonomy and superstition But whether Melchyor returned upon Saint Thomas his arrivall and with the other two came into Europe and whether those three buried in Cullen be fictitious or no it is not pertinent to a Travellers curiosity to insist upon But this is obvious in History That Candaces Noble Eunuch baptised by Philip left her service to preach Christ whom very fruitfully he made knowne to many parts of Araby and sundry Iles as Socotora this and Tabrobane or Sumatra as Dorotheus Bishop of Tyre in the dayes of the great

Gentry by The better sort are habited in silke and a sleight sort of satten the meaner in black cloth made of cotton their coats or vests are long and quilted made to tye under the left arme after the usuall garb of Asia their sleeves are also very long and at the wrist very strait their shoes are many times of such stuffe as bee their coats and soaled with cloth or callicoes some have them richly imbroydered The greatest variety amongst them is in their head attire some knit their hayre in cawles of silk of horse-hayre some and some with fillets of gold or silver others weare high caps or felts made of fine twigs round and commixt with silk of divers colours and other-some an antick sort of hat high crown'd round one halfe without brim and tawny coloured The women are commonly modest and differ not in apparell in that a like vaile of white linnen wholly couers them shewing nothing but their polt-feet which from their infancy are straitned so as to make them alla mode many of them are maymed They tollerate Polligamy and Sodomy yea what else their lustfull idle natures can dictate to please their effeminacies They are generally crafty proud lasie jealous complementall and voluptuous Musick Poetry Painting and Stage-plaies delight them exceedingly they care not what they spend in luxury and fire-works they eat in porcellane and have their dyet in many but small dishes their meat minc't and which they take up with two sticks of bone or Jvory but some have their nailes so long as may excuse them for to touch their mouths or meat with fingers is held absurd and impious their drinck is commonly hot and by its tast and colour seemes to be such a Coho potion as they drinck in Persia they drinck oft and little The Louthya's are served on the knee and much regarded they all sit upon stooles and eat on Tables And albeit no Nation in the world is more idle and gluttenous yet are no beggars to be found there if he be young and beg the whip rewards him if old or lame or blind the Hospitall releeves him Murder they punish with death theft and adultery commonly with the strappado their Justice is severe and impartiall their prisons strong their executions beheading or starving them The Mandarins are honoured the Chyam's reverenced the King adored no Subject nor Ambassador ever sees or speaks with him save his children and Eunuchs except by petition They suffer Ambassadors or others to enter China so they bring presents of valew otherwise they suspect them as spies and no way honour them The Chynaes are curious in novelties and love to see strange Arts which they also delightfully practise few of them but has skill in some thing either in tillage making China dishes or porcellane to paint sing or play well the Mathematicks they affect the civill Laws they use not letters but Characters or Hyerogliphicks of which they have above 40000 they write neither to the right hand nor to the left as the Latin and Hebrews did but right downe and simmetrically they write with pencills made of horse hayre such as they also paint with their language is most part of monosyllables they be generally Poets and Musicians affected with Rhetorick and Divination The Schollers and Merchants in this republique are much more honoured than the Souldiers bee and some reason they have for it They are so cowardly lasie and tyrannicall No people in the world more honour their King than do the Chynaes they suppose him too glorious for them to look upon they obey his will in every thing they fill his Exchequor yeerely with above a hundred millions of crownes they call him The undaunted Emperour and great Lord of the whole World Son of the Sun and beauty of the whole Earth No people whatsoever expresse more filiall respect unto their Parents than the Chyneses do they obey them at all times and every where they do nothing to displease them they marry not without their assent their childrens Names are at their disposing they honour them bee they never so meane releeve them bee they never so poore at their death expresse all symptoms possible of their loyalty and duty and seldome mourne lesse in white linnen as did the Jewes than two or three yeeres the longer they mourne they think they the better expresse affection They arrogate all sorts of excellencies whether in Art or Science as peculiar to their Nation they think their Speech the most sweet and rhetoricall of any in the world what other people have they judge deducted and borrowed from their transcendent Notions They say they are the most ancient and immixt people in the Universe and borrow nothing of any other Nation They say they first invented Letters or Characters Guns Painting Tillage and Navigation yet in none of these for all their brags can they parallell us of Europe For their antiquity I deny not but they may have continued their plantation and without much mixture admirable if so for the Tartarrs and Siamits have oft over-runne them since the first seminary begunne by Sem in those parts yet may others in that point compare with them I might nominate the Bryttains for I regard not their Lies and Histories of such Kings as reigned or such Conquests as the Chyneses obteined long before the birth of Time a hundred thousand yeeres ago unlesse wee qualifie it by the example of the Arcadians whose yeare had but ninety dayes of the Massagers who had fifteen yeeres or of the Aegyptians who had twelve yeeres in one of ours following the course of the Moone and not the revolution of the Sunne nor regarding the Dies intercalares an error most of the Orientall Ethniques are plunged in Their letters are not so succinct as ours their Hieroglyphicks come short of the Aegyptians Their Guns are not so serviceable they have them not above a span long so that they rather resemble Pistols than Guns nor are their bore nor squaring so good as ours so strong so near so mathematicall Their painting is of good colours but their designing farre short of our invention they draw the postures filthily and shadow meanly which doubtlesse in painting makes the perfection Their husbandry is without Art or Reason the graine is good the soyle rich the Zone moderate and yet their corne is neither so various so good nor so certaine as be our Harvests Their Navigation is lame they build many ships but without beauty or service nor have they much skill in sayling their Logarithms and Mathematick instruments to take the height of the Sun by failing them their Compasse also is defective for they have but eight or twelve points at most to distinguish by nor is the Magnet till of late acquainted with them for all which they say they see with two eyes we with one and that all other people be more than purblind in sottish ignorance They delight excessively in all sorts of games and voluptuousnesse