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A08239	The nauigations, peregrinations and voyages, made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay Daulphinois, Lord of Arfeuile, chamberlaine and geographer ordinarie to the King of Fraunce conteining sundry singularities which the author hath there seene and obserued: deuided into foure bookes, with threescore figures, naturally set forth as well of men as women, according to the diuersitie of nations, their port, intreatie, apparrell, lawes, religion and maner of liuing, aswel in time of warre as peace: with diuers faire and memorable histories, happened in our time. Translated out of the French by T. Washington the younger.; Quatre premiers livres de navigations et peregrinations orientales. English	Nicolay, Nicolas de, 1517-1583.; Washington, Thomas, fl. 1585.; Stell, John, fl. 1580.	1585 (1585)	STC 18574; ESTC S113220	160,097	302

THE Nauigations peregrinations and voyages made into Turkie by Nicholas Nicholay Daulphinois Lord of Arfeuile Chamberlaine and Geographer ordinarie to the King of Fraunce conteining sundry singularities which the Author hath there seene and obserued Deuided into foure Bookes With threescore figures naturally set forth as well of men as women according to the diuersitie of nations their port intreatie apparrell lawes religion and maner of liuing aswel in time of warre as peace With diuers faire and memorable histories happened in our time Translated out of the French by T. Washington the younger ❧ Imprinted at London by Thomas Dawson 1585. To the Right Honorable Sir Henrie Sidney Knight of the noble order of the garter Lorde President of her Maiesties Councell in the Marches of Wales and the principality thereof and one of her Maiesties most honorable priuie Councel And to the Right Worshipfull Sir Phillip Sidney Knight Iohn Stell wisheth long life and happy dai●● with increase of honour IT is a wise and not so wise as true a saying of a trau●●led writer Right Honorable and Noble vttered vppon his owne experience that hee was alwaies of opinion and minde that the perfect prayse of wisedome and learning is not to be sought for in bookes but to be gotten by verie vse and practise They therfore that by continuall studie and incessaunt reading do vsurpe chalenge to themselues the title of knowledge are not alone to be iudged wise but they rather muche more are to be esteemed such who setting apart al other their priuate businesses and affaires though to them very aduauntageable are conuersant in this worlde as in a Theater of mans life and by due triall are taught the diuersities of countries the differences of peoples manners the examples of life and manifold thinges besides which Trauellers doe comprehend with their eie and compasse by their wit For what is more discommendable what more vnbeseeming a man that is studious specially being nobly borne than alwaies to a●ide at home like a snaile in the shel to waxe olde in vayne pleasure without praise and vnnecessary leysure without profit and not to meditate thinke that at one time or other it is meete to hoouer with the winges to leaue the nest and to flie abroade that they may aspire to the knowledge and attaine to the sight of great matters wherwith they shal neuer be acquainted otherwise than by the booke or the map which differ as much in mouing the imagination and other faculties of the mind as the representation of a thing in a glasse or a paynted table doth vary from the thing represented To vndertake trauelling the vtilitye which is not small springing from thence shoulde inuyte all liberall mindes and free natures And in truth none are so muche adorned and benefited by peregrination as Noble and Great men though doubtlesse it is not deniable that common men I meane not triobular mates men I say of base descent and linage haue thereby not only bin commended to the Honorable but also their owne experience and triall of occurrents in trauelling doth procure thus much more than ordinary vnto them that they are among men vntrauelled as Hesperus among the smaller starres For when wee eyther heare or reade of fruitefull countries of well gouerned common-wealthes of true religion and diuine worship of learned men of trayning vp youth of manners and behauiours c is it not sweete in euery ones eare is it not woorth the vnderstanding doth it not deserue diligent marking and remembring But yet much more pleasaunt and profitable is it to view the very things them selues to behold them and to see them with satietie as the Poet very aptly saith That which we heare with outwarde eare moues not the minde so much As that which beames of rowling eyes atteine vnto and touch A certaine Traueller but as maye bee suspected by the course of his writing superstitious according to his time speaking of a voyage of his owne saith thus Shoulde it grieue or repent me of my peregrination to Rome specially in the yeare of Iubile No in truth For such thinges as were doubtfull to me before vncertaine as a shadow are now by the infallible testimonie of mine eies assured vnto me with singular credite and haue raised vp in me an exceeding delectation astonishment They therfore at no hand deserue the hearing which being induced by an argument drawen from the greatnesse of the labors the dangerousnes of circumstances incident vnto trauelling suppose that the same is to be laide a ●●eepe to be omitted not medled with at all But what think we may be obiected against those shelsnailes This truly that people are borne to paynes taking as birdes to flying Aristotle in his Ethicks requiring a capable hearer of his morall preceptes reiecteth infantes and olde men as insufficient which two degrees of age do seeme in some mens thinking vnfit for trauelling because the one by reason of their multiplied yeeres are to be released from the tediousnesse thereof the other also in respect of want in iudgement vnderstanding and strength are wholly to be sequestred from it But I do much mislike their opinion and the reasons likewise thereto ann●●ed For though infantes are vnfit for peregrination yet to exclude olde men as vnapt is in my poore cōceipt palpable erron●ous For in a matter nothing doubtfull to vse needlesse proofe● as Tullie neatly saith we haue an example of Iacob an old man ful of yeres who notwithstanding trauelled out of his own● countrey into Aegypt partly by constraint of famine and ●artly also for hys sonne Iosephs sake whom naturally he loued Agayne if olde men are condemned as vnfit for peregrination then truely by the same comparison women much more whom the same Aristotle tearmeth vnperfect creatures But the Queene of the South hearing of Solomons wisedome glory and mightinesse left the territories of her owne dominions ●o see him wyth her eyes whose incomparable renowme had amazed her hearte So then by these instaunces the former reason seemeth too halte and the Authour thereof to haue saide somewhat but yet with little aduisement and to small purpose I might adde to these Hagiographicall examples other t●stimonies deduced and brought out of prophane Chronologies both auncient and moderne were it not that I feare the censure of some politike Hanniball and incurre deserued blame for talking fondly of a thing wherein I haue no practise as somtimes did foolified Phormio Onely this I say that the greatest commendation and praise of a traueller is not onelye to talke by knowledge roundly of such famous Cities Countries people and other straunge obiectes as he hath seene but also to speake their language redily to learne their manners desirously to know their religion perfectly their pollicie throughly their gouernment absolutely and all thinges els that hee may imploy himselfe about profitably as it is recorded of Vlisses whom Ascham out of Homer commendeth in these words All trauellers doe gladly

returned to Marseillie we about the first watch sayled straight towards the port of Carry beyng distant frō the yle of If xij miles at which place we made prouision of fresh water for our gallies and reuiewe of the Gentlemen souldiers and other of our company the principal wherof were the afore named Knight de Seure with his Galliot The Lorde of Monteuand Daulphinois a manne at armes of the company of the saide countie of Tende with a frigat to accompany vs and to bring backe newes from vs. The Captayn Coste Lieuetenant of the Ambassadours gallies a nephew of his called Erasme The Lord of S. Veran brother vnto my Lady of Arramont The young Baron of London and the Lord Fle●ri both nephewes to the Ambassador the knight of Magliane the Lord of Corignac chamberlaine ordinary vnto the king who for his very long voyages and trauailes in the kings affaires in Leuant was after the said Lord of Arramont made chiefe Ambassadour but notwithstanding afterwards cleane forgetting the honour and good which he had receiued of the king his soueraine Lord and the crowne of Fraunce contrary to that whiche duty fidelity commanded him went ouer to the king of Spayne The Lord of Vilrailh also chamberlaine ordinary vnto the king a gentleman learned and of singuler experience who for that he had the duitch tongue besides the Latine and other languages very familiarly hath since diuers times vnder the reigne and commandement of king Henrie byn very honorably and happily imploied in great and honorable affaires towards the Princes and Potentates of Germanie the holy empyre Three gentlemen of Gascoignie being brethren called Iueuses the Lord of Saint Marie the Lord De la motte otherwise called Chasteau Regnaud the captaines la castelle Barges and Bartolome de Auignon Guiliam de Grantrie nephew of Monsieur de Laubespine presently elected and sent to Constantinople as other Ambassadors a nephew of mine called Claude de Bayard and diuers other of whom for auoyding of prolixity I leaue to speake The reuiewe being thus made and hauing returned on shore certaine vnfit eaters our ankers being weyed and our sailes displayed we sayled along by East and by North towardes the North of the cape De creo in Cathalonia which the Spaniardes call Capo de Creuses and after hauing passed Grece Tramontane sailed through the Spanish Seas towards the Iles Baleares so aunciently called but by the modernes Maiorque and Minorque whereof passing forwarde wee will make some more description Of the Iles Baleares now called Maiorqúe and Minorqúe Chap. 3. THE yles Baleares whiche were so called and deriued out of the name of Balee cōpanion vnto Hercules althogh the Grecians haue named them Gimnesie Diodore Gimnaisis yet are they vulgarely by the Mariners called Maiorque and Minorque being situated in the Spanishe or Beleare Sea according to the name of the saide ylandes The inhabitaunts whereof as Vegece writeth were the first inuenters of casting with the sling Maiorque after the opinion of Bordon in his Isolarie conteineth in circuite 480. myles although the maryners now adayes doe ascribe vnto it but 200 and in breadth 100. about whiche Iles there are certaine shelues wherof the one which lyeth towardes the South is called Cabrera the other towardes the West Dragonera The saide Ilande hath two cities Palme nowe called Maiorque or Mallorque accorcording to the name of the Iland and Polence now called Alcidia Minorque hath in length 60. miles in circuit 150. to the East stretcheth from Maiorque 30. miles hath also according to the modernes two cities of which the one is called Minorque but aunciently Mugo and the other Iamma nowe called Citadella And although Minorque is lesse then Maiorque yet in goodnesse nothing inferiour for certainely both are very fertile and haue good ports Of the Iles by the auntients called the Pitieous Iles and nowe Ieu●●e and Fromentiere Chap. 4. FRom the Baleares wee sayled towardes the Iles called Pitious which in times past were called Ebuse and Ophicuse ●● that all the people moued at it runne to the mole head to see vs enter into the port where we being entred Cotignac was again sent with the Chiaous to the king to aduertise him of our arriual who stayed not but straightwayes ther came with him diuers other Chiaous captaines and Ianissaries to receiue the Ambassadour presenting him with a fayre horse of Turkie harnished after the fashion of a Spanish Gennet to bring him to the pallace which standeth in the middest of the citie wher comming in good order we entred into the lower court from whence the Chiaous which first was come with Cotignac conducting vs brought vs into another court somthing lesse then the first in the midst wherof was a smal pond foursquare paued with marble stones And at the end which is toward the South stood against the wal a great fountain for the common seruice of the house and at one of the sides was a great stayre of wood whiche did ascende into a long gallerie standing vpon pillers some of diuers marber stones some of white stone in the middest of the pauement which was of Marberstone made very artificially a small fountaine beeing no higher set then the pauement besides a seate which did enuiron it The king being apparelled in a gowne of whyte Damaske sate at the ende of the said Gallerie vpon a very fayre and costly seat a little from hym was his Capi-aga which is the Captain of his estate cloathed in a long gowne of crymson Veluet wyth a Tulbant vppon his head holding in hys hande a long staffe of siluer neare vnto hym were his Capagis which are Porters euerye one hauing in his hand a staffe couloured greene a little further were in a range the kings slaues bearyng on theyr heads a Saracoll of Crymson veluet and before the front the bande a siluer socket set with long feathers and certaine stones of small value And there the Ambassadour hauing done his reuerēce to the king in kyssyng of hys handes the kyng caused him to sit downe by him and after certaine talke the Ambassadour shewed hym his commission and so tooke his leaue of him and returning too his Gallies was accompanied by those whiche brought him vp The whole day after we were visited of a great number of Turks Moores to whom of our partes was made good cheere during foure dayes the king sent to vs euery day sixe oxen and xxi muttons The captaynes of the Gallies of Alger and other Turks and Moores brought vnto vs all sortes of frutes as Peares Apples Figs Reasons and millons of excellent goodnesse certain bread without leauen like vntoo cakes or bunnes To eueri of thē was giuen som money which increased their good will to returne often For in al the world is no nation like to them in theft and couetuousnes we

such drinke as their horses doe to wit faire and cleane water and so being gotten on horseback againe they proceed on their iourney Now to returne to our auncient Peicz the figure following setteth forth vnto you the manner of their going and forme of their apparrel The apparrel and auncient forme of the Peicz or Lackies of the great Turke Of the wrestlers of the great Turke called Gurelsis or Pleuianders Chap. 10. OF all the games anciently exercised in Asia and Grecia the Turke hath obserued the Palester of the Athletes which is too say the wrestling being very neare like vnto the old custom of the Greekes Asians Romans for the great Turks for one of his accustomed recreations entertaineth in wages o. men strong big set and full of flesh and sinewes which are of diuers nations but the most part Moores Indians or Tartares by the Turks called Peluianders or Guressis which signifieth wrestlers who at all times and as often as it shall please him to take therein his pleasure do wrastle before his person two and two with force of armes beeing bare on all their members sauing that they weare breaches of leather gathered made fast vnder the knee annointed with oyle as al the rest of their bodies likewise is according to the auncient custome of the Romans to the intent to giue or to take the lesse hold the one of the other by reason of the slipperous glyding of the oyle dropping vpon the dead leather or quick skinne whereby it commeth to passe that when they are wel chafed oftētimes for lack of good hold with the hands they with their teeth do fasten vppon the flesh of the one other like vnto the fighting of the mastiffes with the Beares wild Buls in that order they doe bite and with their teeth nip one another in y e nose eares or any other part of the bodie sticking out or wher any hold is to be fastned on so as oftētimes they do carry away a peece of the flesh with their teeth The wrestling being thē ended either through victorie or a signe of abstinence giuen and to wipe of the sweate they cast about their shoulders a cloath of blew cottē checked according to their fashiō And such is their forme order apparrel and maner of their combat in wrestling but when they are wythout the barres and at common rest they are clothed with a long gowne which they do cal Dolyman girded with a large girdle of silke according to their maner their head being couered with a bonnet of blacke veluet or with the fur of a yong lamb which they cal Taquia hāging vpō on of their shoulders after the fashion of the Georgians or the gentlemen of Polonia but that it is more euen straight they do say themselues too be impolluted of body obseruāts of virginitie which in their opinion being not vnreasonable doeth the longer preserue maintaine their bodies in strength and what forces with their bodies abandoned soeuer they doe yet are they not therefore seruants or slaues but of free condition for their necessarie prouision haue of the great Lord ten or twelue Aspres a daye Of these like wrastlers strong big set men I haue seen a great many in Alger in Barbary which dayly about vhe going down of the Sun doe present themselues in the place neare vnto the hauen before the great Mosquee making place for al commers and there do wrastle after a fine strong maner for to make a shew pastime vnto the assembly beholders which therfore do giue vnto them a peece of money beeing fouresquare in the moorish speech called Giudith being worth about 4. deniers of our money The Prester ●an king of Ethyopia hath also of these wrastlers as lately hath written Francisco Aluarez in hys voyage of Ethyopia whereby is to be knowne that the people beyond the South East seas do as yet obserue the Palestres exercise of wrastling after the antiquitie of the Olmipicke games instituted by the valiant Hercules whiche in the same countrie of Mauritania and Afrike challenged and ouercame with wrastling the mighty Giant Antheus neuertheles Lactance firmian in his first booke doth attribute the first inuention of the Palestre vnto Mercurie as likewise he doth the playing on the fiddle In these figures following I haue liuely painted out vnto you these Peluianders as I haue seene them in Constantinople in the forme as they wrastle and in the other figure aswell of their making redie to the wrastlyng as after the game and finally of their ordinarie appparrell whiche they weare without the exercise Athletique and likewise haue represented vntoo you the draught of three drunkardes who after they haue well tippled themselues wyth their drinke which they call Sorbet or after they haue eaten of theyr pouder Opium goe howlyng about the stre●tes like vnto Dogges and then it is euill for the Christians too bee neare them because of the perill they shoulde be in of being well beaten Pleuianders wrestling Pleuianders wrestlers The Drunkardes Of the Cookes and other officers of the Kitchin of the Great Turke and the ordinary maner of the eating of the Turkes Chap. 10. IT shall not be impertinent nor out of my purpose if I do speak and intreat of the estates officers duties wages seruices of Cooks other officers of the kitchin of the great Turke and therfore is to be vnderstood that ordinarily he keepeth within his Sarail 150. cooks aswel maisters as boies Azamoglās amōgst which the best most expertest are chosen ordained for the priuy kitchin of the great Lord the other for the cōmon sort The Maister cooks haue for their stipend 8. or 10. Aspres a day the boyes 3. clothed euery one of thē once in the yere those of the priuy kitchin haue their furnaces apart for to dresse and make ready the meat without smell of smoke which being sodden and dressed they lay into platters of purcelan and so deliuer it vnto the Cecigners whom we do cal caruers for to serue the same vnto the great Lord the tast beeing made in his presence the other cookes for the cōmon sorte doe deliuer their meate vnto those whiche haue the charge of the distributing therof throughout the Sarail according to the order made by the officers therunto cōmitted for ouer these two kitchins priuie common are set ordained foure superiours of whiche the first being in their language called Hargibassi is appointed to the charge keping therof to pay the cooks their wages hath for his pensiō 60. Aspres a day amounting to the valew of a ducat and euery yeere a gowne of silke The second is cal-Emimmutpagi whiche is to say chiefe kater ordeined for the disbursing of all the money charges of the kitchin and hath 50. Aspres a day a gowne such as it shall please the Turke to giue him vpon the day

of yeeres and age they should also bee greene of sense and iudgement which so commonly is not found to be amongest olde men rype of age yeres vnto whom the number of yeres and long experience ought to haue brought more wisedome and rype doctrine wel and duly to administer Iustce which ought not to bee peruer●ed nor corrupted by any friendshippe fauour kinred or any other alyaunce and muche lesse through insatiable auarice The estate therfore of these worthie Cadilesquers is very stately and honourable besides that they dayly and ordinarily doe followe the court of the great Lord which they call the gate and through the honour reuerence and dignitie they doe goe before the Bascha for all that their authority is not so greate They are executors of the lawes with the consent of the Baschas they do constitute and depose the Cadis which are Iudges of the prouinces and also take acknowledgement vpon the appellations interposed vpon the sentences iudgements of the saide Cadis according to their prouinces and circuites to wit the one for whole Graecia and the other for the Natolie which is very Turkie Their annuall wages for their estate and office aswell for the Churche as administration of iustice is about seuen or eight thousand duccats besides their ordinary gaynes euery of them entertayning for hys seruice two or 3. hundred slaues and besides haue giuen them and kept at the charges of the great Lord ten Secretaries and twoo Moolurbassis whiche are busied about the horses As for their apparrel they loue to be cloathed in chamblet satten or damaske of sad colours and more honest as russet browne tawny or darke purple The sleeues of their gownes be long and streit vppon their heades they doe weare a Tulbant of a marueilous widenesse and bignesse hauing the middest which they doe call Mogeuisi more lower and streight then the other ordinarie are going through the Countrie or Citie they doe ryde most commonly on Mules or Mulets or sometimes on gelded horses couered vpon the croup●r with a cloth of purple colour garded with silk fringes as in the picture following ye may see and if it happē that they do go on foot they go with a graue fayre soft pace wearing their beard long fierce shewing in thē a great grauitie ioyned with a fained holinesse casting foorth but few words but suche as are of theyr lawe and religion altogeather with euident and meare hypocrisie Cadilesquier a Iudge in spiritual and temporal matters Of foure sundrie religions of the Turkes their maner of liuing and pourtracts of the religions and first of the Geomalers Chap. 15. YF the beliefe and faith of the religious Hermites and Pilgrimes both Turkes and Moores Mahometistes were as good holy and true as it is in false appearance coloured with most euident hypocrisie damnable superstition they might a great deale better assure themselues of their saluation then they do for their maner of liuing is so beastly and farre from the true religion vnder colour of their fained holinesse and vaine deuotion that by comparable reason it might better be called a life of brute beastes then of reasonable men wee will therfore discouer here a little of their foure hypocriticall religiōs of the obseruatiōs therof of which in the end of euery description ye may see the figures naturally drawē out These foure orders of false Mahumeticall religion are in their language called Geomalers Calenders Deruis and Torlaquis The life of the Geomalers to beginne first with them is not much different from that of the worldly sort for that the most part of them are fayre young men and of ryche houses whiche willinglye doe giue themselues to runne about the countrie and to trauel through many and diuers regions prouinces as through Barbarie Egypt Arabia Persia the Indies and the whole land of Turkie for to see and vnderstand the world with great pleasure at other mens charges vnder colour of their pilgrimage and religion the most parte of these are good artificers the other giuē to reading to describe all their voyages the lands and countries which ●hey haue runne through and trauailed Duryng these blind straying peregrinations they carry none other apparrell then a little cassock without sleeues being of purple colour made and fashioned like vntoo a deacons coate so short that it commeth but to aboue theyr knees gyrt in the middest with a long and large girdle of silke and gold of no small beautie and valour vpon the endes wherof are houng certaine Cimbals of siluer mixt with some other cleare sounding mettall and they doe ordinarilie weare sixe or seuen of these aswell about their girdle as vnder their knees And besides the coote in steede of a cloke they are couered aboue the shoulders with the skinne of a Lion or Leopard being whole and in his naturall haire which they doe make fast vpon their breast by the two former legges All the rest of the partes of their bodies are bare sauing that in their eares they doe weare great rings of siluer or of other mettal and on their feet a kinde of shoes made after the fashion of those which the Apostles did weare bound togeather with coardes and to bee the more disguised and appeare more holy they let their haire grow very long and weare the same spread out vppon their shoulders as the brides doe in these Countries And to make them grow to shew the more longer they vse by continuall artifice Terebinthe and vernish laying somtimes for to make it the thicker goates haire whereof the chamblets are made And in such superstitious apparrell raunging about the countrie they doe beare in one of their handes a booke written in the Persian language full of songes and amarous sonnets compounded after the vsage of their rime And being many of thē in a companie their belles and cymballes both neare and afar of make such a pleasant tune that the hearers do therein take very delectable pleasure And if by fortune these iolly louing religious do in the streetes meete with some faire young strippling streightwayes they doe set him in the middest of them cherishing him with a faire and sweete musicke of their voyces and sounde of their cymballes which to hearken vnto euery one runneth and true it is that whilest they do sing they doe sound onely with one of their belles or cymballes euery man keeping measure and time vntoo the voyce of the other and then afterwardes doe sounde all their belles togeather and in this order they doe runne about visiting the artificers and other people for to allure them to giue them some peece of money Amongest these deuout pilgrimes of loue there are some which secretly and vnder pretext of religion doe of a feruent loue draw vnto them the hearts of many faire women likewise of the fairest yonglings of which they are no lesse amarous then they are of the woman kind so much