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A50610	The voyages and adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indiaes with a relation and description of most of the places thereof, their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave / written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain ; done into English by H.C. Gent.; Peregrina cam. English	Pinto, Fernão Mendes, d. 1583.; Cogan, Henry.	1653 (1653)	Wing M1705; ESTC R18200	581,181	334

City was pillaged demolished and burnt there was seen in the morning upon the hill where the King was one and twenty pair of Gallows twenty of the which were of an equal height and the other a little lower erected on pillars of stone and guarded by an hundred Bramaa Horsmen There were also round about the place very large Trenches where a great many Banners spotted with drops of bloods were planted As this Novelty promised somewhat which no man had heard of before six of us Portugals ran thither to learn what the matter might be and as we were going along we heard a great noise made by the men of War from the Camp whereupon we saw come out of the Kings Quarter a number of Horsmen who with Lances in their hands prepared a great Street and cried out aloud Let no man upon pain of death appear in Armes nor utter that with his mouth which he thinks in his heart A pretty way off from these Horse was the Xemimbrum with an hundred armed Elephants and a good many Foot after them went fifteen hundred Bramaas on Horsback cast into four Orders of Files each of them six in a rank whereof the Talanagybras Viceroy of Tangu was Commander Then marched the Chauseroo Siammon with three thousand Siammes armed with Harquebuses and Lances all in one Battalion In the midst of these was an hundred and twenty women tyed and bound four and four together and accompanied with Talagrepos men of great Austerity and are such as the Capachins amongst us who laboured all they might to comfort them in this last act of life Behind them were twelve Ushers with Maces that went before Nhay Canatoo Daughter to the King of Pegu from whom this Bramaa Tyrant had usurped his Kingdom and wife to the Chaubainhaa with four children of hers which were carried by so many Horsmen all these sufferers were the wives or daughters of the principal Commanders that the Chaubainhaa had with him in the City upon whom in the way of a strange revenge this Bramaa Tyrant desired to wreak his spight and the hatred that he had alwayes born unto women The most of these poor wretches were between seventeen and five and twenty years of age all of them very white and fair with bright auborn hair but so weak in body that oftentimes they fell down in a swoon out of which certain women upon whom they leaned endeavoured still to bring them again presenting them Comfits and other such things fit for that purpose but they would take none of them for that they were as I have said so feeble and benummed as they could scarce hear what the Talegr●pes spake unto them only they now and then lifted up their hands to Heaven After this Princess marched threescore Grepos in two Files praying with their looks fixed on the ground and their eyes watered with tears saying ever and anon in a doleful tone Thou which holdest thy Being of none but thy self so justifie our works that they may be agreeable to thy Iustice. Whereunto others answered weeping Grant Lord that it may be so that through our fault we lose not the rich gifts of thy promises After these Grepos followed a procession of three or four hundred little children quite naked from the Girdle-sted downwards having in their hands great white wax lights and cords about their necks These like the others with a sad and lamentable voice which moved every one to compassion uttered these words We most humbly beseech thee O Lord to give ear unto our cries and groans and shew mercy to these thy Captives that with a full rejoycing they may have a part of the graces and benefits of thy rich treasures and much more they said to that purpose in ●avour of these poor sufferers Behind this Procession was another Guard of Footmen all Bramaas and armed with Lances Arrows and some Harquebuses As for the Rear-ward it consisted of an hundred Elephants like to them that marched first of all so that the number of the men of War that assisted at this Execution as well for the Guard as for the Pomp thereof was ten thousand Foot and two thousand Horse besides the two hundred Elephants and a world of other people both Strangers and Natives that came thither to behold the end of so mournful and lamentable and action CHAP. LII In what sort the sentence of Death was executed on the person of the Chaubainhaa King of Martaban Nhay Canatoo his wife and an hundred and forty women with that which the King of Bramaa did after his return to Pegu. THese poor sufferers having been led in the order before mentioned clean through the Camp they came at last to the place of Execution where the six Ushers with a loud voyce made this Proclamation Let all manner of people see and observe the bloody justice which is here to be done by the living God Lord of all truth and our King the Soveraign of our Heads who of his absolute power doth command that these hundred and forty Women be put to death and thrown into the ayr for that by their counsel and incitement their Fathers and Husbands stood out against us in this City and at times killed twelve thousand Bramaas of the Kingdom of Tangu Then at the ringing of a Bell all the Officers and Ministers of Justice pel-mell together with the guards made such a cry as was most dreadful to hear wherupon the cruel Hangmen being ready to put the sentence of Death in execution those poor wretches embraced one another and shedding abundance of tears they addressed themselves to Nhay Canatoo who lay at that time almost dead in the lap of an old Lady and with their last complements one of them spake for all the rest unto her in this manner Excellent Lady that art as a crown of Roses upon our Heads now that we thy humble servants are entering into those mournful Mansions where Death doth reside comfort us we beseech thee with thy dear sight that so we may with less grief quit these bodies full of anguish for to present our selves before that Almighty just Iudg of whom we will for ever implore his justice for a perpetual vengeance of the wrong that is done us Then Nhay Canatoo beholding them with a countenance more dead then alive answered them with a feeble voyce that could scarce be heard Go not away so soon my Sisters but help me to sustain these little children That said she leaned down again on the bosom of that Lady without speaking a word more whereupon the Ministers of the Arm of Vengeance so they term the Hangmen layd hold on those poor women and hanged them up all by the feet with their heads downwards upon twenty Gibbets namely seven on each one now so painful a death as this was made them give strange and fearful groanes and sobs until at length the blood stifled them all in less then an hour In the mean time Nhay Canatoo was conducted

a review to be made of those that would fight but he ●ound them to be not above two thousand in all and they too so destitute of courage as they ●ould hardly have resisted feeble women Beholding himself then reduced to the last cast he communicated his mind to the Queen only as having no other at that time by whom he may be advised or that indeed could advise him The only expedient then that he could rest on was to render himself into the hands of his Enemy and to stand to his mercy or his rigor Wherefore the next day about six of the clock in the morning he c●u●ed a white flag to be hung out over the wall in sign of peace whereunto they of the Camp answered with another like banner Hereupon the Xenimbrum who was as it were Marshal of the Camp sent an horseman to the bulwark where the flag stood unto whom it was delivered from the top of the wall That the Chaubainhaa desired to send a Letter to the King so as he might have a safe-conduct for it which being signified to the Xenimbrum he instantly dispatched away two of good quality in the Army with a safe-conduct and so these two Bramaa● remaining for hostages in the City the Chaubainhaa sent the King a Letter by one of his Priests that was fourscore years of age and reputed for a Saint amongst them The contents of this Letter were these The love of children hath so much power in this house of our weakness that amongst us who are fathers there is not so much as one that for their sakes would not be well contented to descend a thousand times into the deep pit of the house of the Serpent much more would expose his life for them and put himself into the hands of one that useth so much clemency towards them that shall do so For which reason I resolved this night with my wife and children contrary to the opinions that would disswade me from this good which I hold the greatest of all others to render my self unto your Highness that you may do with me as you think fit and as shall be most agreeable to your good pleasure As for the fault wherewith I may be charged and which I submit at your feet I humbly beseech you not to regard it that so the merit of the mercy which you shall shew me may be the greater before God and men May your Highness therefore be pleased to send some presently for to take possession of my person of my wife of my children of the City of the Treasure and of all the Kingdom all which I do even now yield up unto you as to my Soveraign Lord and lawful King All the request that I have to make unto you thereupon with my knees on the ground i● that we may all of us with your permission finish our days in a Cloister where I have already vowed continually to bewail and repent my fault past For as touching the honors and estates of the world wherewith your Highness might inrich me as Lord of the most part of the Earth and of the Isles of the Sea they are things which I utterly renounce for evermore In a word I do solemnly swear unto you before the greatest of all the Gods who with the gentle touch of his Almighty hand makes the Clouds of Heaven to move never to leave that Religion which by your pleasure I shall be commanded to profess where being freed from the vain hopes of the world my repentance may be the more pleasing to him that pardoneth all things This holy Grepo Dean of the golden House of Saint Quiay who for his goodnesse and austerity of life hath all power over me will make a more ample relation unto you of what I have omitted and can more particularly tell you that which concerns the offer I make you of rendring my self that so relying on the reality of his Speech the unquietness wherewith my soul is incessantly troubled may be appeased The King of Bramaa having read this Letter instantly returned another in answer thereunto full of promises and oaths to this effect That he would forget all that was past and that for the future he would provide him an estate of so great a Revenue as should very well content him Which he but badly accomplished as I shall declare hereafter These news was published throughout all the Camp with a great deal of joy and the next morning all the Equipage and Train that the King had in his quarter was set forth to view First of all there were to be seen fourscore and six Field-Tents wonderful rich each of them being invironed with thirty Elephants ranked in two Files as if they had been ready to fight with Castles on their backs full of Banners and their Panores fastened to their Trunks the whole number of them amounted unto two thousand five hundred and fourscore Not far from them were twelve thousand and five hundred Bramaas all mounted on horses very richly accoustred with the order which they kept they inclosed all the Kings quarter in four Files and were all armed in Corslets or Coats of Mayl with Lances Cymitars and guilded Bucklers After these Horse followed four Files of Foot all Bramaas being in number above twenty thousand For all the other Souldiers of the Camp there were so many as they could not be counted and they marched all in order after their Captains In this publique Muster were to be seen● world of Banners rich colours such a number of Instruments of war sounded that the noise thereof together with that which the Souldiers made was most dreadful and so great as it was not possible to hear one another Now for that the King of Bramaa would this day make shew of his greatness in the reddition of the Chaubainhaa he gave express Command that all the Captains which were strangers with their men should put on their best clothes and Arms and so ranged in two Files they should make as it were a kind of street through which the Chaubainhaa might pass this accordingly was put in execution and this street took beginning from the City gate and reached as far as to the Kings Tent being in length about three quarters of a League or better In this street there were six and thirty thousand strangers of two and forty different Nations namely Portugals Grecians Venetians Turks Ianizaries Iews Arm●nians Tartars Mogores Abyssins Raizbutos Nobins Coracones Persians Tuparaas Gizares Tanacos Malabares Iaos Achems Moens Siams Lussons of the Island Borneo Chacomas Arracons Predins Papuaas S●lebres Mindanoas Pegus Bramaas and many others whose names I know not All these Nations were ranked according to the Xemimbrums order whereby the Portugals were placed in the Vantgard which was next to the gate of the City where the Chabainhaa was to come After them followed the Arm●nians then the Ianizaries and Turks and so the rest CHAP. LI. In what manner the Chaubainhaa rendred himself

lodging for him and there he will pay you for this affection which you testifie to have for him After this his wrath redoubled in such sort as instantly he caused this very Daughter to be killed in her Fathers arms which truly was more then a bruitish and savage cruelty in seeking to hinder the affections which nature hath imprinted in us Then no longer enduring the sight of the Xemindoo he commanded him to be taken from thence and to be carried to a close prison where he passed all the night following under a sure guard The next morning Proclamation was made over all the City for the people to be present at the death of the unhappy Xemindoo now the chiefest reason why the Bramaa did this was that the inhabitants seeing him dead might for ever lose all hope of having him for their King as all generally desired for whereas he was their Countryman and the Bramaa a Stranger they were in extreame fear least the Bramaa should become in time like unto him whom X●min de Satan slew and that had been during his raign a mortall enemy to the P●gues intreating them with such extraordinary cruelty as their scarcely passed a day wherein he did not execute hundreds of them and all for matters of small importance and which deserved no punishment had they been proceeded against by the waies of true Justice About ten of the clock the unfortunate Xemindoo was drawn out of the dungeon where he was in the manner ensuing Before him marched through the Streets by which he was to passe forty men on horseback with lances in their hands to prepare and clear the waies there were as many behind as before him which carried naked swords crying aloud to the people whereof the number was infinite to make roome After them followed about fifteen hundred harquebusiers with their matches lighted next to these last which they of the country use to call the avant coureurs of the Kings wrath went an hundred and threescore elephants armed with their Castles and covered with silk tapestry marching by five and five in a rank after them rode in the same order by five in a rank fifteen men on horseback which carried black ensignes all bloudy crying aloud as it were by way of Proclamation Let those miserable wretches which are the slaves of hunger and are continually persecuted by the disgrace of fortune hearken to the cry of the arm of wrath executed on them that have offended their King to the end that the astonishment of the pain which is ordained them for it may be deeply imprinted in their memory Behind these same were other fifteen clothed with a kind of bloudy garment which rendred them dreadfull and of a bad aspect who at the sound of five Bell● which they rung in haste said with so lamentable a voice as they that heard them were moved to weep This rigorous Iustice is done by the living God the Lord of all truth of whose holy body the hairs of our heads are the feet It is he that will have the Xemindoo put to death for usurping the Estates of the great King of Bramaa Lord of Tanguu These Proclamations were answered by a troupe of people which marched thronging before with such loud cryes as made one tremble to hear them saying these words Let him die without having pity on him that hath committed such an offence These were followed by a company of five hundred Bramaa horse and after them came another of foot whereof some held naked swords and buckle●s in their hands and the rest were armed with corselets and coats of maile In the midst of th●se came the poor patient mounted on a lean ill-favored jade and the hangman on the crupper behind him holding him up under both the armes This miserable Prince was so poorly clad that his naked skinne was every where seen withall in an exceeding derision of his person they had set upon his head a Crowne of straw like unto an Urinall case which Crowne was garnished with muscle-shells fastned together with blew thred and round about his yron coller were a number of onions tyed Howbeit though he was reduced to so deplorable an estate and that his face was scarce like to that of a living man yet lest he not for all that from having something of I know not what in his eyes which manifested the condition of a King There was besides observed in him a majesticall sweetnesse which drew tears from all that beheld him About this guard which accompanied him there was another of above a thousand horse men intermingled with many armed elephants Passing thus thorow the twelve principall streets of the City where there was a world of people he arrived at last at a certain street called Cabam Bainhaa out of which he went but two and twenty days before to go and fight with the Bramaa in such pomp and greatnesse as by the report of them that saw it and of which number I was one it was without doubt one of the most marvellous sights that ever hath been seen in the world whereof notwithstanding I will make no mention here either in regard I cannot promise to recount rightly how all past or for that I fear some will receive these truths for lies neverthelesse mine eyes having been the witnesses of these two successes if I do not speak of the greatnesse of the first I will at leastwise declare the miseries of the second to the end that by these two so different accidents happening in so short a time one may learn what little assurance is to be put in the prosperities of the earth and in all the goods which are given us by inconstant and deceitful Fortune Whenas the poor Patient had past that street of Cabam Bainha● he arrived at a place where Gonçalo Pacheco our Captain was with above an hundred Portugals in his Company amongst the vvhich there was one of a very base birth and of a minde yet more vile vvho having been robbed of his goods some yeers before as he said at such time as the Patient raigned and complained to him of those who had done it he vvould not vouchsafe to give him audience so that thinking to be revenged on him for it now vvith extravagant and unseemly speech as soon as this poor Prince came where Gonçalo Pacheco was with all the other Portugals the witlesse fellow said aloud to him that all might hear him O Robber Xemindoo remember how when I complained to thee of those that had robbed me of my goods thou wouldst not do me justice but I hope that now thou shalt satisfie what thy works deserve for I will at supper eat a piece of that flesh of thine whereunto I will invite two dogs that I have at home The sad Patient having heard the vvords of this hair-brain'd fellow lifted up his eyes to heaven and after he had continued a while pensive turning himself vvith a severe countenance towards him that uttered them Friend