from November till March during which season the Road is exceeding dangerous and almost useless because 't is impossible Vessels should get near the Shore to lade their Rice Upon the same Island there is a King of Tello and another of Battergoa who are the most powerful next to that of Macasser The Dutch Relations tell wonders of the prudence of the former and attest they met there with Barks and Frigots so artificially built their most experienced Carpenters acknowledged that they could not possibly have improv'd their Art to that perfection He had settled Granaries throughout his Dominions to store up Rice which was not to be stirred till a new recruit had furnisht him with sufficient to replenish it and did all he could to engross the Commerce to himself for which purpose he had his Factors at Banda to vend his Cotton-clothes and lade in exchange Mace and other Spices The Isle of Gilolo called by the Portuguez Bato China de Mâ—ro by the Molucquez Alemaera is much larger then Celebes it yields good store of Rice of Sagu whereof we shall have occasion to speak presently in the description of the Molucques wild Hens and Tortoises of extraordinary size The Natives are well proportioned but savage and not long since Anthropophagi as the Celebâ—ans were Amboyna is an Island â—o near adjoyning to the Molucques that some have reckon'd it in the number of them as well for the scituation as for the production of Cloves which are said to be kindly no where but in the Molucques 'T is scituate four degrees beyond the Line two Leagues from the Isle of Ceiram and is in circuit about twenty four On the West-side of the Capital Town there is a Bay of six Leagues composing a good Road where Ships are well sheltered from all Winds By reason of this Bay the Sea wants not much of cutting thorow the Island for on the other side the Sea advances so far within the Land that it leaves but a small Isthmus of about sixscore fathom over The Island being thus as 't were divided into two parts the lesser wherein is the Castle of Amboyna contains twenty small Towns or rather so many Villages which can send forth about two thousand men able to bear Arms. The greater part hath four Towns which have each seven Villages substitute and can arm about fifteen hundred men The Natives were heretofore brutish and like their Neighbours Anthropophagi or Canibals in so much that they would devour their Parents when age made them decrepit or when they were visited with any desperate Disease The Land it self lay wild and overgrown with Forrests but at present 't is exceeding fertile and besides Cloves bears all other sorts of Fruits as Lemmons Oranges Cocoes Bonanas Sugar-canes c. Oranges particularly are so plentiful that one may buy fourscore for a Button The Inhabitants are a sort of simple people habited like the Bandayans living meanly enough on what they get by the Clove-husbandry They use no other Arms then the Dart which they cast so dexterously that they will not miss the breadth of a Crown piece threescore paces distant the Cimeter and Buckler They make a sort of Cakes of Rice Almonds and Sugar which they sell to their Neighbours of the adjacent Islands where they take them against Fluxes They make likewise Rice-bread in the form of Sugar-loaves Their Galleys which they call Caracoras are well built and they know how to manage them with such address that ours come not near them for swiftness The Island was first discovered by the Portuguez in the year 1515. under the conduct of Antonio Abreo who there erected a Column as well to record the possession he took of it for the King of Portugal as to serve for a Trophy of his Adventures in advancing farther into the Indies then any of his Predecessors had done These Portuguez observing the Hollanders obstructed the advantageous Commerce they carried on here in the year 1601. set forth a Fleet of thirty Ships with a resolution not only to destroy the Hollanders Traâ—fick but withall so to chastize the Inhabitants of Amboyna who bore more affection to the Hollanders then to them that they should change their opinion D. Andres Furtado de Mendoza Admiral of this Fleet having intelligence of five Holland Vessels that were in the Port of Banda resolv'd to fight them but was worsted and forced to retreat into the Port of Isou the chief City of Amboyna The Hollanders though victorious were not in condition to pursue their good fortune and much less to hinder the Portuguez from discharging their revenge upon the Inhabitants who were most rigorously used by these enraged people nay such was their spight that they pull'd up their Clove-trees meerly that the Hollanders might not make their profit of them Hereupon Stephen Verhagen the Holland Admiral arriving February 21. 1603. in the Road of Amboyna landed a party of Souldiers with design to storm the Castle The Portuguez Governour perceiving his intention sent forth two of the Garrison Officers to demand of him how he durst approach a place committed to his charge by the High and mighty King of Spain to whom the Holland Admiral made answer He was come in the Name of the States of the United Provinces and the Prince of Orange with Order to take in the Castle and expell the Enemy so as he was to come to present Articles or sustain the Assault he should make as soon as his Artillery came on shore This Bravado so daunted the Portuguez that he rendred the place without so much as a Cannon shot There march'd out six hundred Portuguez with their Arms. Such as were married taking the Oath of Fidelity were permitted to stay in Town The Inhabitants of all those Islands Iavâ— Amboyna and the Molâ—cquez were all Pagans till their Commerce with the Persians and Arabians brought in Mahumetism which notwithstanding hath not so extirpated their former Religion but such as embrace Circumcision continue their Pagan Superstitious Some make open profession therof and adore the Devil there being neither Town nor Village that hath not one peculiar thereto Not that they understand in any sort what the Devil is or that they have any knowledge of what the Scripture sayes of him but they affirm That what they adore comes out of the Air whence some of them call one of their principal Demons Lanithe that is Air who notwithstanding depends on another greater then he called Lanthila nay is not so considerable as their Taulay who in power is next to Lanthila The general name for them is Nito which signifies evil Spirits or Tuan that is Lord or Master They say their Nito appears often to them in the shape of an ordinary person which the Spirit takes on him for this purpose and by which he pronounces his Oracles that his intentions may be known To have conference with him they assemble to the number of twenty or thirty
do to their King He seldom appears in publick but all Addresses are made to a Noble man in whom the direction of Affairs lies He is intitled Quillor which is the same as Constable or Grand-Minister in other places He governs by divers other Persons of Quality who have their Divisions and Provinces to regulate according to Orders from him The Kings name is in such veneration amongst them that all the Subjects unanimously joyn in a moment to oppose any disturbance to the peace of the State As appear'd in the end of the last preceding Age in the person a Prince of the bloud who rising against the King and having some design upon the life of his Prince was immediately taken and condemn'd to death but the King in compassion chang'd his Sentence to perpetual exile in Pulo raza that is the desert Island where he stood confined with all his Complices who so well did cultivate it that divers other families have been since transplanted thither They retain the Pagan Religion they profess in the Isle of Baly and quit not that accursed custom for Women to burn themselves after the death of their Husbands The Isle of Borneo lyes more North then Iava and is one of the greatest in those parts 't is scituate under the Equinoctial Line but so as the greater part is on this side of it extending to six degrees towards the North. Some do assign it four hundred Leagues in circumference as Bartholomew Leonardo de Argensola who wrote the History of the Conquest of the Molucques and others but the Hollanders allow it but two hundred and fifty Leagues The principal Towns are Borneo Sâ—ccidava Landa Sambas and Benghemassin The City of Borneo from which the Island derives its name stands in a Marsh as Venice doth so as there is no passing from Street to Street but by boat The same Argensola sayes it contains 23000. Houses but the Dutch allow it but two thousand The best Camphire in the Indies is gotten in the Isle of Borneo Here is also Gold and Bezoar This Stone breeds in the Maw of a Sheep or Goat about a knot of Grass that stayes in the Maw and is often found within the Stone The Persians call these Beasts Bazans and the Stone Bazar which is a Market as by excellence proper for a Market or Fair and from the same word comes the Bazarucques the least Money that is sent to the Market The Stone is smooth and greenish and the more substantial and weighty it is the better it is and of the greater vertue In the Country of Pan near Malacca they find a Stone in the Gall of a certain Swine more highly esteem'd then the Bazar It is of a reddish colour as smooth and slippery in the feeling as Soap and exceeding bitter so that when it is to be used they only steep it in cold water and the water is a most soveraign Antidote against all poyson and an effectual cordial against all infectious Diseases Here they have likewise Diamonds Sapan-wood for dying as also Brasile Wax and good store of Pepper Frankincense Mastick and all other sorts of Gums The Island hath divers Havens and Roads but its Cities are not very populous Borneo is better then the rest and the Haven upon the mouth of a fair River is large and very commodious The Spaniards were once Masters of the Haven but they quitted it because the Air was so unhealthful they could not subsist Their Houses are of Timber but so sleightly built that they ordinarily pull them down to change their habitations or pass over to the other side of the River They are an ingenious and dexterous people but addicted to theft and great affecters of Pyracy so as sometimes they will cruze up and down the Sea as far as the Coasts of Pegu which is four hundred Leagues from that Island They use all sorts of Arms as Swords and Gosos which are Bucklers made of boyled Leather Lances Darts and a sort of Pikes they call Selihes the wood whereof is extreamly hard but withall so small and brittle that if it break in a Wound it leaves Splinters that render the part incurable The King is a Mahumetan as also the greatest part of the Islanders on the Sea coast but they that live in the heart of the Island are Pagans Their hue is rather black then tawny they are of compact well proportioned bodies and go habited near like the rest of the Indians with a Linnen about their loins and on their heads a little Turbant On the first of October in the year 1609. the Hollanders treated with the King of Sambas for establishing a Commerce of Diamonds which are to be found in the Mountains far within the Country and since have made one for Pepper with the King of Borneo with exclusion of all other Forreigners but the Borneans are no more faithful in the observance thereof then the other Indians Betwixt the Isle of Borneo and Molocques under the Equinoctial Line lies the Isle of Celebes and if credit may be given to Mercator this is one of the three Islands Ptolomy calls Sindas The chief City here is called Macassar and lies in the most Southerly part of the Island five degrees seventeen minutes beyond the Line It abounds in all sorts of Provisions particularly Rice wherewith in the moneths of March April and May the Territory is so entirely covered that 't is not to be imagined there is an inch untill'd and in effect besides what they convert to pasture for their Cattle and what they assign for their Cocoes there is not the least parcel lyes unsowed In the face they are like the people of Pegu and Siam and 't was but in the beginning of the present Age they deserted Paganisme and imbraced the Mahâ—umetan Religion 'T is said that in the time of Paganisme they were Anthropophagi and that the Kings of the Molucques sent their Malefactors to them to be devoured But it may be averr'd for truth that at this day the Indies have not a people so tractable as they yet they are couragious and irreconcileable where they once declare enmity Their chief Armes is Bow and Arrow whereof they impoyson the head to render the Wound mortal The Men are of a comely make carrying in their Prepuce a Ball or two of Ivory or a Fish-bone massie and not hollow like the Siameses and Peguans but this custom by degrees wears out as that amongst the Women to cut their Hair off for at present they let it grow and coif themselves as the Malayans do Women when they walk the Streets and Slaves have their Breasts open and wear Breeches that reach from the Navil to the Knee but when they bathe in their Cisterns or Wells in the Street they are stark naked The Houses of Macassar are built upon Piles and rais'd nine or ten foot above the ground by reason of the Rains which fall with the West and North-west Winds
Tree which they adored and to which on certain dayes Water and Meat was served up by one of their Priests whom they call Sofo They had also a veneration for the Bones of a Whale and religiously worshipped a certain Rock for this reason that it was higher then any other near it No Nation in the World is more superstitious about groundless Divinations and Augury then this is They take certain pieces of Straw into their mouths and according to their falling to the ground they judge of the event of things They all affirm that they speak to the Devil and they have a particular respect for such as have the reputation of Sorcerers but indeed are only Cheats and Impostors who make their advantages of the weakness of the besotted multitude They are very religious in the observance of their Oaths as being perswaded that such as violate them small dye suddenly and alledge to that purpose the examples of some of their Nation who having broke the Oath they had taken not to injure some holy persons who preach'd the Gospel in those parts were all destroyed From this sincerity there arises an advantage not known elsewhere which is that Law-suits and differences are decided in a few hours upon the pure affirmation of the parties No Crime so heynous but a man may redeem his life with money unless he be so lost to goodness as to fall several times into the same offence They go naked and cover only those parts which are not with decency to be named and they do it with Ape-skins or pieces of Cloath of divers colours which they make of their Date-trees The Ornament they most affect is to make their Bodies shine by frequent rubbing them with Oyl or Fat Persons of Quality wear Bracelets of Gold about their Armes and Legs and tye up their Hair and Beards with small Chains of the same Metal In their wars they observe neither Order nor Discipline and the Instruments they make use of are fitter rather to excite laughter then animate them to fighting Their defensive Arms are made of Lions Tigers or Leopards skins and the offensive are Darts and short Lances Their Hidalgos when they go to the wars are attended by two Pages whereof one carries the Buckler and the other a little Stool on which the Master rests himself when any halt is made They regulate the number of their Wives according to their Revenue and they contract Marriages without any Ceremonies giving the Brides Father only ten Rials for his Wine which they are such lovers of that many times they take of it till they have lost their Senses and Understanding The Dutch have there the Fort called Boure within four Leagues of Mina They have also their Factors at Cara Coromantin and Aldea del Tuerto and they quietly drive on the trade of Mina where they return yearly above two millions of Gold and by that means get out of the Iazans and other Inhabitants of Aethiopia great quantities of Gold especially since their settling at this place occasioned the Portuguez to attempt what they did at Brasil contrary to the Treaty they had made with the States of the Vnited Provinces The Dutch had already destroyed the trade of the Portuguez there upon this score that they were content with a moderate profit and treated the Negroes with so much mildness that they brought them to some liking of their Religion which hath made a considerable progress among them Christopher Colombo perceiving King Iohn II. to be much inclined to those Voyages went to the Court of Portugal to proffer his service for the discovery of the West-Indies But the business being taken into consideration at the Councel they thank'd Colombo and resolv'd to prosecute their Conquests in the East In pursuance of this resolution the King sent away two of the best Pilots in the Kingdom named Diego Can and Iuan Alonso d' Avero The former took his course to Mina and arrived at the Cape de Lope Consales and afterwards doubling that of St. Katharine he entred the River Zaire seven degrees South of the Line and there took possession of the Kingdom of Congo This Kingdom reaches from the Cape of St. Katherine Southward as far as Cape de Ledo and hath on the West the Aethiopian Sea on the South the Mountains of the Moon and the Cafres on the East the Mantabas and on the North the Kingdom of Beny being in length about a hundred and sixty Leagues from the second degree 30. minutes to the 13. degree beyond the Line It consists of six great Provinces named Bamba Sengo Sunda Pango Batta and Pambu The Province Bamba reaches along the Coast from the River Ambrisi to that of Coanse the Metropolis Bamba lying between the Rivers of Losa and Ambrisi 30. Leagues from the Sea The Province of Songo lies upon the Rivers of Zaire and Loango reaching from the River Ambrisi to the Mountains which divide it from the Kingdom of Loango The Metropolis is of the same name The City of Sunda does also derive its name to the Province whereof it is the Metropolis It is 8. Leagues in compass and comprehends under its jurisdiction all the Country which is near the City of Congo by the Portuguez named St. Salvader as far as the River Zaire The Province of Pango which had heretofore its particular King hath on the North the Province of Sunda on the South that of Batta on the West the City of Congo and on the East the Mountains of the Sun The Metropolis from which it hath the name lies upon the River Barbella which hath its Source common with that of the Nile The Province of Batta lies North-eastward between that of Pango and the River Barbella and reaches to the burnt Mountains The City of Congo is the Metropolis of the Province of Pamba and lies upon a Mountain fifty Leagues from the Sea There is in the same Province another Mountain which is above six Leagues in length and hath on it so many Villages and Hamlets as find Habitations for above a hundred thousand persons Duarte Lopez who lived several years in those parts and made a particular description of the Kingdom of Congo which Augustinus Cassiodorus hath taken the pains to translate into the German language affirms that the Air is so temperate there in Winter as it is in Rome in October and that the greatest annoyance to the Europeans is the Rain which falls there every day for two hours before and as many in the afternoon as being rather burning then hot Their Winter begins the 15. of March and their Summer the 15. of September and during the moneths of April May Iune Iuly and August not a day passes but it rains so that there is hardly a fair day in five moneths But the dayes and nights are of equal length in all seasons of the year The River Zaire which
is a considerable part As to its Commerce there is no City in the world where the Inhabitants of Amsterdam have not their Factors and correspondents All the maritime towns of England France Spain and Italy are full of them as are also those of the Baltick-Sea and Muscovy it self It is in a manner impossible to number the Ships it sends away every year to Archangel 〈…〉 to the Coasts of Pomerania and into Norway where they put off their Spicâ—s and Silk and Woolen sfuffs for Wheat Timber Pitch 〈…〉 and other things they stand in need of either for the building of their ships and houses or the carrying on of their Trade in the other parts of the world These Fleets go away commonly twice or thrice a year but there go some every day West-ward and 〈◊〉 hour for the other Cities of Holland and the Neighbouring Provinces yet 〈…〉 hinder but that 〈◊〉 Ports and Clannells are so covered with boats and ships that it may be questioned whether the water be not there as much inhabited as the land and whether there be more people in the houses or the ships There is such abunof Wheat Wine Hemp Flax Wood and Spices as if all other Provinces of the world were emptied of their wealth to make Amsterdam a publick Treasury of all they produce so that it may be said it is in this City properly that a man may see those Miracles which the famous Scaliger attributes to all Holland Though a man should consider only the House belonging to the East-India Company he would 〈…〉 all its Inhabitants I ha◠〈◊〉 some Ship◠〈◊〉 at 〈…〉 the Store-houses and Magazeens reaching at a great distance from the East-India House full of Spices Silk Stuffs 〈…〉 what ever China and the Indies afford that is most 〈…〉 had sent thitheâ— all its Ciâ—amon 〈…〉 all their Cloves â—he Islands of 〈…〉 all their Spices China all its rich stuffs Iapan its excellent works of several kinds and the rest of the Indies its Pepper and Silk Nay it may be said this Company is a kind of particular Common-wealth in that little world since its Magistrates Officers Arntes â—lâ—ets Generals Governourâ— of Provinces and Cities and its subjects seem to have no other dependance on this City then a particular State hath on the Universe It is since the year 1595 that the Dutch have made Voyages into the Indies upon the instigation of a Merchant named Cornelius Hâ—â—â—man who living at Lisbon informed himself from the Portuguez of all the particulars of those Voyages and prevailed so far with some Merchants of Amsterdam that in the year 1595. they sent out four Ships which thay sent along the Coasts of Africk and the Cape of good Hope into the Indies inasmuch as the design which some others had to find out a passage North-ward had not proved effectual About two years and four months after these Ships returned to Amsterdam and though the profits of this first Voyage answered not the expectations of the persons concerned yet were they such as engaged several other Merchants in the same design so that in the year 1598. they sent thither a second Fleet consisting of â—ight great Ships They would not stay the return of this Fleeet but in the year 159â— set forth another and much about the same time some other Merchants made up a new Company and set out a particular Fleet insomuch as to prevent the destruction of Trade likely to be occasioned by many different interests the States of the United Provinces in the year 1602. brought the persons concern'd to an agreement among themselves and reduced them into one common Company under their Authority and the direction of the Prince of Orange as Admiral of those Provinces By this Agreement thus authorised by a Grant of the States for one and twenty years there was a regulation made according to which the oversight of all that trade was put into the hands of the chiefest persons concern'd therein divided into six Chambers or Courts which were settled at Amsterdam Middleborough for Zealand at Delf and Rotterdam for the Meuse and at Horn and Enckhuisen for West-Friesland The first consisted of twenty Directors that of Middleborough of twelve and the four others of seven a piece so that in all charges that of Amsterdam bore the one half that of Zealand a quarter part those of Meuse and West-friesland each a half-quarter It was also ordered that to General Assemblies that of Amsterdam should send eight Deputies that of Zealand four and those of the Meuse and West friesland each of them two with a supernumerary for a casting voice which was to be appointed by the Chambers of Zealand the Meuse and West-friesland alternately The Stock of this Company amounted to six Millions six hundred French Livers which was laid out in the setting forth of several Fleets and the first Voyages proved so fortunate that it was found in the year 1613. that the money of the persons concern'd had gain'd two hundred and sixty upon the hundred But the profits were much greater the year following as may be seen by the Dâ—vidents which have been made from time to time In the house belonging to the same Company I saw also all the Drugs all the Fruits and all the living Creatures which I had seen before in the Indies It were impossible to imagine any thing more delightful or more regularly disposed then the Streets Water-channels and Houses of this City All the Rivulets are bordered with Line-trees and the Quays pav'd at the extremities with Brick anâ— in the middest with Flint The Houses especially those of the new City are so manâ— Palaces so neat without that painting could add nothing thereto and so well furnish'd within that there are some whereof only the Pictures were enough to enrich a man But what most speaks the cost imploy'd about them is least seen For all the Houses being built on piles it must be confessed the foundations are no less precious then the rest of the Structure and that there is not so noble a Forrest in the World as that which the City of Amsterdam hath under its houses Among the publick Structures the Churches are remarkable and among others those called the Old and the New and the three others built some years since by the Magistrate In the former is the Epitaph of Iacob de Heemskerk who having made two Voyages to Nova Zembla and the Indies was kill'd at the Streights of Gibralter where he set upon the Spanish Fleet within reach of the great Guns of the Fort. What a noble and neat place is the Hospital and Convent of St. George where there are now received great numbers of Aged persons of both Sexes who are maintained there What more charitable then the care and tenderness wherewith distracted persons are treated And what severity do they not exercise in the ordering of incorrigible persons the men in a House over the door whereof there is in golden Letters VIRTVTIS
French-man who liv'd 20. moneths in Maurice Island p. 198 The Ship puts not into the Island Pintados a Bird discovering nearness to Land p. 199 Mangas de Veludo a kind of Bird the Cape of Agulhas Fish foreshewing change of weather p. 200 Trombas what ibid. Cabo falso the Cape of Good Hope discovered Pinguins a kind of Fowl p. 201 The Inhabitants about the Cape of Good Hope their cloathing food know neither God nor Devil Lions their only enemies ibid. Hurricans p. 202 Madagascar discover'd they put in there what Commodities go off there p. 204 The Lord of those parts makes an alliance with the English Madagascar described p. 205 Dragons-bloud Aloes the Island abounds in Cattle its Inhabitants p. 206 The Men are couragious their Armes Chief Religion Mozambique ibid. When discover'd by the Portuguez p. 207 The first landing of the Dutch at Madagascar p. 208 AVGVST He leaves Madagascar the 21. and arrives in England the 16. of December following Declination of the Load-stone the Isle of St. Elizabeth Sea-wolves p. 209 Badgers St. Helens Island planted by the Portuguez p. 210 Ascension Island p. 211 St. Thomas Island Land Crevices the Inhabitants Rolles Island p. 212 Carisco Island Capo Verde its Inhabitants their Armes the Women do all the work ibid. The men drunkards believe the immortality of the Soul D. Enrique discovers Guiny the scituation of Mina p. 213 The Religion of the Inhabitants their superstition are religious in their Oaths their clothing Armes the settlement of the Dutch in Guiny p. 214 Diego-Can discovers the Kingdom of Congo its Provinces Air the Piver Zaiâ—e Sea-horses p. 215 Gold Mines Serpents Cocos their houses ibid. They are all Architects and Physitians their cloathing the wealth of the Country their Money the absolute power of the King of Congo the Governour of Batta Minister of State his Priviledges their Armes and manner of fighting p. 216 How Christian Religion was introduced there the Kingdom of Beny Cabo Verde described Ptolomy knew nothing of these people the Rivers Gambra and Zanaga p 217 The Inhabitants about the Cape are Pagans their way of raising forces their Nobility the state of the Country when first discover'd the story of Beomi who is baptized p. 218 The green Islands peopled by the Portuguez Flamencos a kind of Bird St. Jago Island the Voyage continued p. 219 The Azores their number they have good fruit p. 220 Potatoes Their Wheat will not keep Tercera Oxen very large the Island subject to Earthquakes an Island started of a sudden A Spring that petrifies wood a kind of wood hard as iron Cedar p. 221 Michael's Island St. Mary's Island Gratiosa Island St. Georges Island Fayal Island Pico Island the Island of Flore p. 222 The convenience of these Islands the Air very sharp in the Azores The Canaries when discovered Lewis Earl of Clermont conquers them a French Gentleman conquers them by Commission from the King of Castile p. 223 They belong to the Crown of Castile great Canary Teneriffe Fierro Island a miraculous Tree p. 224 The Voyage continued the West wind reigns from the Azores to England they come into the Channel ibid. The Isle of Wight the Downs the President and the Author like to be cast away in the Haven another Tempest p. 225 The Author comes to London p. 280 M.DC.XL IANVARY The first be is treated by the Lord Mayor a strange attempt of a Dutch Marriner an example of dreadful solitude p. 226 A strange resolution of two Christian Slaves p. 227 The King of England touches some of the Evil. p. 283 The Author having continued at London near three moneths leaves it the 20. of March in order to his return for Holstein p. 228 A description of Haerlem where the Mystery of Printing was first invented p. 229 The Inscription put upon the house of the first Inventor thereof ibid. He comes to Amsterdam a description of it its commerce p. 230 The first Voyages of the Dutch to the East-Indies ibid. An account of several other places in Amsterdam p. 231 MAY. The first the Author comes to Gottorp where he put on end to his Travels p. 232 FINIS 16â—3 The occasion of these Travels An Embassy sent the King of Persia and Great Duke of Muscovy The Embassadors OCTOB Their retinue NOVEM They embark Orders for civil behaviour Bornholm Sea sickness It s cause A Calm Cap de Demesnes Dunemunde The Ambassadors come to Riga The Magistrat's present Riga described It s foundation Made an Archbishoprick Subject to Poland Taken by the Suedes Its fortifications It s commerce DECEM The Ambassadors leave Riga Ermes Castle Halmet Castle Ringen Come to Derpt An Episcopal City Re-united to the Crown-f Poland Taken by the Suedes An University founded there by the King of Sueden JANUARY 1634. The Ambassadours come to Narva FEBRUARY To Reuel MAY. Return to Narva and meet the Suedish Ambassadors The Muscovites and Persians defray Ambassadors charges Anniversary Ceremonies observ'd by the Muscovites for the dead The Ambassadors leave Narva Gam Fort. Kapurga The civility of the Muscovian Ladies Johannestal JUNE Neuschans Ladoga a Lake The Ambassadors come to Notebourg Spiring a fifth Ambassador from Sueden a Hollander born and sometime an Arrasweaver The Suedish Ambassadors depart A Suedish resolution The Muscovites sleep after Dinner The reception of the Suedish Ambassadors A Muscovian Collation The situation of Notebourg JULY The Ambassadors came to Laba Their reception Another Muscovian Collation The Ambassadors prosecute their Voyage Come to Ladoga The Musick of Muscovy Wolgda The devotion of the Muscovites Wolgda described A dangerous fall of water Troublesome Flies and other insects The Presents of a Muscovian Monk The Muscovites do not condemn those of a contrary belief Corodiza Soliza Grunza Wisoko Krifseuiza The Ambassadors came to Novogorod Brunits AUGUS A Muscovian Procession Crasmistansky Gam Chresta Jaselbitza Simnogora Wolsolk Columna Budeua Torsock Tuere The River Wolga Nichola Nachinski The reception of the Ambassadors The Pristafs take the vpper hand of the Amdors Their Lodgings The Great Dukes refreshing present to the Ambassadors They are under a Guard The Ambassadors Cavalcade The Presents The Ceremonies of the audience The Grand Duke treats the Ambassadors SEPTEM The Muscovian New-years day A Tartarian Cavalcade The entrance of a â—urkish Ambassador The Turkish Ambassadors first audience OCTOB A Muscovian Festival The Great Duke goes a Pilgrimage NOVEM The Great Duke grants the Ambassadors a passage through his Country A Cavalcade of Crim-Tartars The Ambassadors have their last Audience The Czaar's present Klâ—n Tuere Tarsock Novogorod 1635. JANUARY Mokriza Tauerin Orlin Sariza Lilienhagen Narva Reuel Narva Reuel FEBRUARY The Description of Parnau 1635. The Ambassadors come to Riga Mittau Courland made a Dutchy Doblen Bador Hashof Walzau Memel Swenzel Bulcapen Koningsberg Elbing Dantsig It Stetin Rostock Wismar Schonberg APRIL Lubeck Arnsbock Pretz Kiel Gottorp 1635. Preparatives for the second Voyage The Ambassadors retinue They embark The Ship strikes against a
those places which are infamous and the common receptacles of a sort of people who divert themselves there with Musick and the Dancing of some of their common Drabbs who having by their obscene gestures excited the brutalities of the Spectators get them into some corner of the House or draw them along into some publick places where they permit the commission of these abhominations as freely as they do that of ordinary sins In the Tsal Chattai Chane they drink The or Tea which the Persians call Tzai though the Tzai 〈…〉 Cha are properly but a kind of The and Chattai in as much as it is bâ—ought them from Chattai we shall have occasion to speak more of it hereafter They are only persons of good repute who Drink of this and frequent these Houses where in the intervals of their drinking they spend the time at a certain Game somewhat like our Tick-Tack but they commonly play at Chesse at which they are excellent and go beyond the Muscovites whom I dare affirm to be the best Gamesters at Chesse of any in Europe The Persians call this Game Sedrentz that is Hundred-cares in regard those who play at it are to apple all their thoughts thereto and they are great Lovers of it in as much as from the word Schâ—ch whence it hath its name they would have it believ'd it is of their Invention Some years since there was publish'd in Germany a great Volume upon the Game of Chesse wherein the Author too easily crediting Olaus Magnus would have it believ'd that the antient Goths and Swedes put those to play at Chesse who were Suters to their Daughters that by their management of that Game which hath no dependence on Fortune they might discover the judgement and disposition of their pretended Sons in Law But these are only Fables as is also what is related of one Elmaradab King of Babylon The Government of this Prince was so Tyrannical as the story at least would have it that no Body thinking it safe to represent to him the dangers whereto his cruelties expos'd the State and his own Person one of the Lords of his Council named Philometer invented the Game of Chesse which instead of openly opposing the sentiments of the Tyrant discover'd to him the duty of a Prince towards his Family and Subjects by shewing him the removals of the several pieces by the representation of two Kings encamp'd one against the other with their Queens their Officers and Soldiers and that this wrought a greater impression on the King than all the other remonstrances that could have been made to him The Cahwa Chane are those places where they take Tobacco and drink of a certain black water which they call Cahwa but we shall treat of both hereafter in this very Book when we shall have occasion to speak of the Persians manner of Life Their Poeâ—s and Historians are great frequenters of these places and contribute much to the Divertisement of the Company These are seated in a high Chair in the midst of the Hall whence they entertain their Auditors with Speeches and tell them Satyrical stories playing in the mean time with a little stick with the same gestures and after the same manner as those do who shew tricks of Legerdemain among us Near these Taverns or Drinking-Houses are the shops of Surgeons and Barbers between which Trades there is a great difference in Persia as there is within these few years in France The former whom they call Tzerrach only dress Wounds and Hurts and the others named Dellak only Trim unless they sometimes are employ'd about Circumcision These Barbers are much taken up for there is not a man but is shav'd as soon as any Hair begins to appear but there is not on the other side any who carries not his Rasour about him for fear of getting the Pox which they are extremely afraid of because it is very common among them and very contagious As you go out of the Maidan on the same side and turning on the right hand you come to the Basar or true Market-place and in the midst of the Market-place the Kâ—â—serie or kind of open Cloister where are sold all the richest Stuffs and Commodities that the Kingdome affords Over the Gate of this Structure there is a striking-Clock made by an English-man named Festy in the time of Schacst-Abas and in regard that then there were few Lords that had Watches the Persians look'd on the Motions of that work as a thing Miraculous and Supernatural This English Clock-maker had met with the same fate as Rodolf Stadler and had been cut to pieces by the friends of a Persian whom he had kill'd and the Clock had been out of Order ever since his Death This Market-place consists of several Streets cover'd over head and is so full of Shops and those shops so full of all sorts of Merchandizes that there is nothing though ever so rare in World which is not to be had here and at a very reasonable rare For indeed there is nothing dear at Ispahan but Wood and Provision inasmuch as there is no Forrest near it nor Meadows for the feeding of Cattel Of all the shops I saw at Ispahan I was not pleas'd so much with any as that of a Druggist who liv'd in the Maidan on the left hand as you go to the Metzid by reason of the abundance of the rarest Herbs Seeds Roots and Minerals it was furnish'd with The Root Tzinae or Chinae which the Persians call Bich Tzini and Rhubarb which they call Rawentzini and is brought thither from China and great Tartary were not worth here above three Abas's or a Crown the pound There is not any Nation in all Asia nor indeed almost of Europe who sends not its Merchants to Ispahan whereof some sell by Whole-sale and others by Retail by the Pound and the Ell. There are ordinarily above twelve thousand Indians in the City who have most of them their shops near those of the Persians in the Maidan and their Merchandizes in the Caravanseras where they have their Habitations and their Store-Houses Their Stuffs are incomparably fairer and their Commodities of greater Value than those of Persia inasmuch as besides the Musk and Amber-grease they bring thither great quantities of Pearls and Diamonds I observ'd that most of these Indosthans had upon the Nose a mark of Saffron about the breadth of a Man's finger but I could never learn what that Mystery signify'd They are all Mahumetans or Pagans they burn the bodies of their Deceas'd friends and kinred and in that ceremony they use only the Wood of the Mesch-Mesch or Apricock-Tree But of these a particular account will be given in the Travels of Mandelslo into the Indies Besides these Indians there is at Ispahan a great number of Tartars from the Provinces of Chuaressem Chattai and Buchar Turks Iews Armenians Georgians English Dutch French Italians and Spaniards The City is supply'd with
frightned thereat that hanging his Cytimar about his Neck he went in that posture to the King's Chamber door according to the custom observ'd by such as know they have deserv'd death and by that submission beg their Pardon The King sent him word he might come in whereto the other having made answer that he was not worthy to set his foot within the King's Chamber having abus'd his goodness as he had Schach-Abas comes out of the Room and took off the Cymitar from about his Neck and deliver'd it to him as an assurance of his favour But he strictly forbad him the drinking of any Wine ever after in as much as being got drunk he knew not what he did Some time after Emir-Kune-Chan having in a fight been wounded in the Arm and the Physicians having given it as their opinion that that abstinence would be prejudicial to his health the King did not only take off the prohibition he had made him but sent him a certain number of Mules loaden with the best Wine in the Countrey The Persians hate and contemn Cowards and the Officers who neglect their duty in the Wars are most severely punish'd An instance hereof was seen in Aliculi-Chan Governour of Shorosan who having let slip the opportunity of engaging Tameras Prince of Georgia though he might have fought him with advantage Schach-Abas caus'd him to be dress'd in Woman's Cloaths and so sent him to the Army where he was walk'd up and down all day among the Soldiers The allowance of a Hors-man is three hundred Crowns per ann towards the keeping of himself and his Horse and that of a Muskettier two hundred They have the reputation not to be over-scrupulous in the keeping of their word as was seen in the Capitulation they granted the Garrison of Iruan which was very ill observ'd Those who speak of the Wealth of the King of Persia think they speak of a vast and incredible sum when they assign him a yearly Revenue of eight Millions of Gold and imagine they raise the Reader into admiration when they affirm that the Province of Candahar alone brings in yearly near a Million of Gold that the Cities of Bagdat and Iruan with the Country thereabouts pay in a manner as much and that it hath been found by the Register's Office of the Chancery that the King gets out of the Suburbs of Ispahan and the Villages within the Baylywick thereof near forty thousand Crowns But those who know that the Province of Normandy it self payes yearly such a sum as amounts to almost as much as all the King of Persia's Revenue will grant there is no hyperbole in what we have affirm'd This Revenue was very much diminish'd in the time of King Tamas when the Turks and other neighbouring Princes over-run Persia so as that they were possess'd of several Provinces belonging to that Crown Besides there is hardly any Bridge or Passage not only upon the Frontiers but also all over the Kingdom nay in all Cities almost but there is somewhat to be paid without any distinction of persons Foreiners or Natives All Merchandises pay and the King takes upon every Bail of Silk ten Crowns There is no Horse sold but pays xv d. to the King an Ox as much and an Ass one half and a Sheep which are as thick as Ants all over the Countrey iij. d. a piece The King lets out the Caravanseras which are in Cities and are appointed for Lodgings for Foremers and VVare-houses for Merchants especially at Ispahan where there are twenty five of them of which not any payes less then five thousand Crowns per ann He Farms out also the Fishing of the Rivers the Baths and Stoves the places of publick Prostitution and the Springs of Nefte He sells also the water which comes into the Fountains and raises only from the River of Senderut at Ispahan the yearly sum of sixteen thousand Crowns All the Armenian Christians whereof there is a very great number in Persia pay yearly a Poll-money of two Crowns for every head Nay what is more there is not a person those only excepted who are maintain'd by or have some relation to the King but payes a Tax proportionably to what he gets even to the very Midwife I say nothing here of the Presents brought the king from all parts and which fall by several Chanels into the Prince's Treasury The great Lords though they make good the king's Revenue yet abate nought of their own advantages and find wayes to fleece the Countrey so as that it is not to be admir'd there is so little wealth to be found among the people For there is nothing so true as what a certain Emperour sometime said that it is impossible the spleen should be swollen in any body and that the other Members of the same body should not be wasted and become Hectick 'T was also Schach-Abas who ordered the melting down of seven thousand and two hundred Marks of Gold for the making of the Pâ—ate we have mentioned elsewhere which his Successors still produce at the entertainments they make Foreiners and consists for the most part in Dishes Pots Flaggons and other Drinking-Cups What we said before of the Military Officers to wit that they were most of them but meanly clad is as true in those Officers who belong to the Court For there was hardly any one who could make ostentation of but ordinary Parentage The Eatemad Dowlet or Chancellor who was the President of the king's Council the Soul of affairs the principal Minister of State and as it were Viceroy of Persia was the Son of one who got his livelyhood by writing at Mesanderan as we have said elsewhere These Scriveners as I may call them are employ'd only in the Coppying and Transcribing of Books in regard they have not as yet ia this Countrey the use of Printing as we have in Europe He is called Eahtemad Dowlet in regard he hath the oversight of the kings Revenues and Treasury This was the most self-concern'd person of all that ever had the management of publick affairs as a Minister of State For there was no business done at Court whereof he made not some advantage and there was no charge or employment to be gotten but the person petitioning for it must have made his agreement with the Chancellor whose exactions were in this particular excessive not only upon the accompt of the Presents which being made by him twice every year to the Court rendred the king himself in a manner a complice of his concussions but also upon this consideration that being an Eunuch all the Wealth he got was at his death to fall to the king The Kurtzi-baschi who had the command of ten thousand Horse whom Schach-Ismael appointed as a standing Army to be constantly maintain'd named Tzani-Chan was a Peasant's Son of Schamlu who in the time of Schach-Abas had been a Menial servant to a Lord of the Court These Horse in time of Peace
retire to their own Habitation yet are paid as duely as if they were in actual service and meet not again till there be an Army on foot enjoying in the mean time divers Privileges and Exemptions which the other later kings of Persia have granted them The Meheter that is the Lord Chamberlain or chief Gentleman of the Chamber named Schaneser was a Gcorgian born of Father and Mother Christians He had been carried away in his infancy and sold to the Court of Persia where they had made him an Eunuch so that he needed not be Circumcis'd to receive the Character of the Persian Religion He had been a Page attending in his Chamber to Schach-Abas and was much in favour with Schach-Sefi upon this account that being alwayes near the king's person in all both Publick and Private Assemblies nay even within the Seraglio he had the king's Ear and knew how to comply with his humour and make his advantage of the opportunities he had to speak to him by which means he obtain'd those favours of him which another could not have ask'd The Wakenhuis that is the Secretary of State and of the King's Revenue who having forty Clarks under him perpetually employ'd issues out all the orders and dispatches which are sent into the Provinces and takes an account of all that 's receiv'd towards the charge of the King's house was called Myrsa Masum He was a Peasant's Son of the Village of Dermen in the Mountain of Elwend near Caswin where there are among others two Villages to wit Dermen and Saru whence come the best Pen-men of any in the Kingdom in regard there 's not an Inhabitant but puts his Children to writing as soon as they are able to hold a Pen and keep them so constantly employ'd therein that even in the fields and as they keep their flocks they pass away their time in that Exercise Aliculi-Chan who had the charge of Diwan-beki that is President of the Councel for the administration of Justice was the Son of a Christian of Georgia He had been taken during the War which Schach-Abas had in those parts and sold at Ispahan where he had serv'd as a Lacquey which had also been the condition of his two Brothers Rustam-Chan Governour of Tauris and Isa-Chan Iusbaschi who were made Eunuchs as he was himself The functions of his charge consisted principally in presiding at the judgement of Criminal causes joyntly with the Seder and the Kasi and the other Ecclesiastical and Secular Judges whom they call Schehra and Oef under the Portal of the King's Palace at the place named Diwan-Chane and to be personally present at the Executions of Malefactors The Kularagasi that is Captain of the Kulam or Slaves who are sold to the King to serve in the Wars upon any order they receive to that purpose was called Siausbeki and had been one of Schach-Abas's Footmen Of these Kulams there are about eight thousand and are permitted to live at their own Habitations as the Kurtzi are and have the same pay but they enjoy not the same Privileges or Exemptions having nothing of that kind which is not common to them with the king's other Subjects The Eischikagasi-baschi or Lord high Steward who hath the over-sight of forty Stewards that serve under him called Mortusaculi-Chan was the Son of a heard-man or one of those people whom the Persians call Turk who have no setled Habitation but remove their Tents and Huts to those places where they think to find the best Grass for their Cattel I said these Eischikagasi were a kind of Stewards of whom there are at all times four or five at the Court who stand at the door of the king's Appartment and serve by half-years under their Baschi or Chief who carries the staff they call Dâ—kenâ—k and stands before the king when he eats in publick on dayes of Ceremonies He is also one of the two who take Ambassadors under the Arms when they are brought to audience We have already related how Mortasaculi-Chan succeeded in this charge Vgurlu-Chan whose head Schach-Sefi had caus'd to be cut off Imanculi Sulthan whom the king of Persia sent upon an Embassy to the Duke of Holstein our Master had the quality of Eischakagasi Schahe Wardi who was Iesaul Scebet or Master of the Ceremonies was the Governour of Derbent's Son but his Grand-father was a Peasant of the Province of Serab The Iesaul Scebet carries also a staff and his principal function consists in placing strangers at the king's Table and at publick assemblies The Nasir or Controller of the king's house whom they also give the quality of Kerek jerak because he executes the function of a Purveyer whose name was Samambek was the Son of one of the ordinary Inhabitants of Kaschan The Tuschmal who hath the over-sight of all the Officers belonging to the king's kitchin was called Seinel-bek and was the Son of Seinel-Chan whom the king kill'd with his own hands in the presence of his Mother The Dawatter that is the Secretary of the Closet whose name was Vgurlu-bek was the Son of Emirkune-Chan He had in that charge succeeded Hassan-beg who was kill'd by the king's order because he had been at Supper with Talub-Chan as we related before The word Dawatter is deriv'd from Dawat which signifies an Ink-horn in as much as the principal function of this charge consists in carrying the Ink-horn and presenting that part thereof where the Ink is to the king when he is to sign any thing For the king himself carries the Seal about his Neck and Seals or Signs himself by pressing the Seal upon the Paper after he had put it into the Ink. Aly-baly-bek who was Myra-chur-baschi that is chief of the Gentlemen of the Horse or Master of the Horse of Persia was a Senkene by birth and his Father was a Drover who traded altogether in Oxen. The Mirischikar or Grand Faulconer whose name was Chosrow Sulthan was a Christian an Armenian born one notwithstanding his Religion very much in the king's favour Karachan-bek who had the charge of Sekbahn-baschi that is Overseer of those who kept the Dogs for Hunting or chief Hunts-man as I may call him was also a Sen-kene and the son of a Shepheard The Iesalkor hath two functions to wit that of Grand-Marshal of the Lodgings and that of Judge of the king's houshold He marches before the king as well in the Citie as in the Country with a staff in his hand to make way He hath under him several other Iasauls who are as it were Harbingers and sometimes is employ'd in the securing of persons guilty of Treason and such as are imprison'd by the king's express order The other Officers belonging to the Court are The Suffretzi that is the Carver The Abdar who serves the king with water to drink and keeps it in a Jarr seal'd up to prevent any body 's putting of poyson into it The
became so eminent for Commerce that not only it had its particular Kings but the Arabians said of it by way of Proverb that if the Universe were but a Ring the City of Ormus was the Diamond that should be set in it Teixera sayes that Scach Mahomet the son of an Arabian King who liv'd in the tenth Age having reduc'd under his Jurisdiction the Provinces that are seated upon the Persian Gulf as far as Besra pass'd over into the Island where he laid the first foundations of the City of Ormus Schabedin Mahomet eleventh King of Ormus of the posterity of Mahomet dyed in the year 1228. And he who liv'd when the Portuguez became Masters of it was called Sâ—yfadin and paid Tribute to the King of Persia. D. Alfonso d' Albuquerque made a Conquest of it in the year 1605 for Emanuel King of Portugal of which attempt the manner and success of it take the following Account Tristan de Cugna who had taken the Island of Zocotora whereof we shall have occasion to speak hereafter left certain Vessels under the command of Albuquerque with Orders to visit the Coasts of Arabia while he attempted some new Conquest in the Indies he being a person of great resolution thought his only course to settle himself there was to set upon the Kingdom of Ormus which he did with 470. Souldiers whom he had aboard his Fleet. Emanuel Osorio Bishop of Selvas in Portugal sayes that Albuquerque made his advantage of the Mahumetan Kings weakness who then reigned For understanding that the principal Minister of State whose name was Cojeatar a Forreigner a Native of Bengala and an Eunuch had exasperated the people against him by converting the publick Revenue of the Kingdom to his own profit and advantage having left his Soveraign only the bare Title of King he thought fit to strike in at that conjuncture of Affairs and to that end left Zocotora upon the 20. of August and having in a very few dayes taken in the Cities of Calaâ—ate Curiate Mascate Soar and Orfassam he took his march directly to the principal City to which he came the 25. of September The first thing he did was to defeat a very strong Fleet which the Moors had within the Haven and by that means oblig'd the King to come to a capitulation by which the King of Ormus promised to take the Oath of Allegiance and Fidelity to the King of Portugal to pay him every year fifteen thousand Ducats as a Tribute in Gold Silver or Pearls and five thousand towards the charges of the present War and to permit Albuquerque to build a Cittadel where he should think most convenient for the preservation of the City The Portuguez began the said Cittadel on the 25. of October following and gave it the name of Our Blessed Lady of Victory It is true this establishment was not so absolute at the beginning but that the Moors made some attempts to rid themselves of these new Guests but the Portuguez made a shift to maintain what they had gotten and to make the place they were in a Magazine of Armes for the Indies taking occasion by that means to engross all the Commerce to themselves and obliging all the Persians and Arabians to buy of them all those Commodities which they stood in need of from the Indians Nay this was so rigorously observed that the Governour of Ormus prohibited the Inhabitants to sell any of their Commodities till such time as he had sold his own The permitted Seyfadin to live in the Island but at a certain place far enough from the Cittadel so not to give the Portuguez any occasion of jealousie Scach Abas King of Persia being no longer able to endure the insolence of the Portuguez and very much incens'd at their receiving into Protection the Gentlemen of the House of the Gabrieli whom we have spoken of elsewhere bethought himself of some course to get these Forreigners out of those parts To effect this he address'd himself to the English who traded at Ormus and by the advantageous proffers that he made oblig'd them to promise him all the assistance they could to carry on the siege of that City which was aâ—â—aulted and taken by the English in the year 1622. They put both the City and Cittadel into the hands of the King of Persia who found in it six hundred great Guns some Iron some Brass which Scach Abas caused to be transported to Laar and Ispahan all but fourscore Pieces which he left in the Cittadel He caused the walls of the City to be demolish'd and the Materials thereof to be translated to Gamron which began even at that time to raise it self upon the ruines of its Neighbours The King of Persia desirous to reward the services which the English had done him upon that occasion did not only grant them an absolute exemption from all Impositions but he also bestow'd on them one moyety of those Duties which other Merchants were to pay there but as we said before the English come very far short of receiving what is due to them I found in the Port of Gamron an English Ship called the Swan of 300. Tun carrying 24. Guns Master Honywood Agent for the Affairs of England recommended me to the Captain of it and commanded him to carry me over to the Indies and to defray all my charges till I came to Suratta I had brought eight Horses with me making account to sell them with very great advantage in the Indies but the Ship was so full of Goods that it was with much ado that I could get in only two of them So that I was forc'd to put off the other six to very great loss as being able to get but thirty pound for those which had cost me sixty pound at Ispahan and which I should have sold at above one hundred and fifty pound at Suratta I embark'd the sixth of April with Mr. Manley and Mr. Hall English Merchants whom the President of the English at Suratta had ordered to come from Ispahan about some business concerning the Company and went aboard accompanied by most of the Strangers that were at Gamron as also many Indian Merchants with whom I had upon some occasions made acquaintance The Captain ordered four Pieces to be fired at our coming aboard and received us with much civility inviting us it being then about noon to dine with him We went from Gamron to Suratta in nineteen dayes during which the Captain treated me very magnificently and did me the honour to resign his own bed to me and to give me precedence upon all occasions He was well furnished with Fowl Mutton and other fresh Meat but above all things with excellent good Sack English Beer French Wines Arak and other refreshments which prov'd so well for me that by the help of these good Cordials and the benefit I had by the drinking of Ptizanne which I caused to be made with Cinnamon and rinds of Pomegranats at my
be rais'd out of it two hundred thousand men able to bear Arms. There is no Nation in all the East but hath some Commerce or other at this place but most of the Inhabitants are Mahumetans and all the Merchandizes that are imported into it or exported out of it pay ten in the hundred There are above forty small Cities and above three thousand five hundred Villages that depend on the jurisdiction of Agra which extends it self above sixscore Leagues about The Country is delightful and very fertile producing abundance of Indico Cotton Salt-Peter and other things wherewith the Inhabitants drive a vast Trade There are two Festivals which are celebrated in this place with extraordinary Ceremonies one whereof is that of the first day of the year which with the Persians they call Naurus Nauros or Norose which signifies nine dayes though now it last eighteen at least and it falls at the moment that the Sun enters Aries In order to the celebration of this Festival before the Derbar or Kings Palace there is erected a Theatre fourteen foot high fifty six in length and forty in breadth having all about it a row of Pillars after the manner of a Balcony cover'd with rich Tapistry Near this Theatre there is erected another building of painted wood and embellish'd with Mother of Pearl into which go some of the principal Lords about the Court who nevertheless have their Tents pitch'd in the first Court of the Palace filled with all they have that is rich and magnificent whereof they make the greatest Ostentation they can that day The Predecessors of this Prince who now reigns were wont to go into all these Tents and to take thence any thing they liked but now the Ceremony is otherwise For the King accompanied by the seven Ministers of State go up into the Theatre where he sits upon Velvet Cushions enbroidered with Gold and Pearls and stayes for the Presents which are to be made to him The Queen is in a certain Gallery whence she sees all the Ceremony yet is not seen her self Departing thence he sits upon his Ordinary Throne where he receives the Presents of the people which he continues to do for eighteen dayes together Towards the end of the Festival the King in his turn makes his Presents to the Lords which consists in Charges Employments and new Honours which he distributes among those that have given him most The Mogul's birth-day is celebrated with the Ceremonies following He begins the day with all manner of divertisements which over he goes to the Palace of the Queen his Mother if she be living and causes many Presents to be made her by the Grandees of his Kingdom After dinner he puts on the richest clothes he hath and covers himself all over with Gold and precious Stones and being thus rather loaden then adorn'd with inestimable wealth he goes into a Tent where he is expected by the Lords of the Court in which finding a pair of Scales he weighs himself These Scales are of massy Gold as are also the Chains by which they hang and are all beset with precious Stones He puts himself into one of the Scales and into the other there are put several bags of Silver one bag of Gold some precious Stones some pieces of Silk-stuffs Linnen cloath Pepper Cloves Nutmeg and Cinnamon Wheat Pulse and Herbs and there is an exact account kept of the difference of weight there may be between one year and another The King gives away with his own hands all the money among the poor and the rest are bestowed on the Benjans That done the King seats himself in his Throne and causes to be cast among the Grandees Nuts Pistachoes Almonds and several other Fruits of Gold but so finely wrought that a thousand of them weighed not thirty Crowns This some would boggle much to admit for a Truth yet certain it is that it hath been seen that the value of ten Crowns bestowed in these trifles filled a great Basin of them so that all the liberality of this powerful Monarch could not amount to a hundred Crowns The Festival is concluded with a great Feast at which the Mogul entertains the Lords of his Court with whom he passes away the night in drinking They celebrate also another Festival which they begin ten dayes after the new Moon of the moneth of Iuly much after the same manner as the Persians celebrate their Aschur The Indians observe this Festival in honour of two Brethren named Ianze and Iawze servants to Haly who being gone in Pilgrimage to a particular place of Devotion upon the Coast of Coromandel the Bramans and other Pagans of those parts set upon them and forc'd them to retreat into a Castle where they besieg'd them These holy Persons maintain'd the Siege a long time but being resolv'd not to drink of the Water which the Pagans had prophan'd by casting a Lizard into it a Creature for which the Mahumetans have an aversion because of its uncleanness they took a resolution to make a sally upon the besiegers and killed many of them but at last they were overcome by the great number of their enemies who left them dead upon the place There are carried about the City Coffins covered with Bows and Arrows Turbants Cymitars and Garments of Silk which the people accompany with sobbings and lamentations in commemoration of the death of those holy Persons Some among them dance at the Ceremony others strike their Swords one against another nay there are those who cut and slash themselves so as that the bloud comes out in several places wherewith they rub their clothes and by that means represent a very strange procession Towards night they set up several Figures of men made of Straw to personate the Murtherers of those Saints and having shot a great many Arrows at them they set them on fire and reduce them to ashes And this they do with so much fury and animosity that should there be any of the Pagans in the Streets at that time they would run the hazard of their lives whence it comes that during these Ceremonies they stir not out of their houses The Mahumetans of those parts celebrate also another Feast in the moneth of Iune in memory of the sacrifice of Abraham at which they kill He-Goats which they eat at the Entertainments they make among themselves that day Certain it is that the Mogul stands very much upon his descent in a direct and masculine I ne from Temirlanque that is to say Temir the lame who is commonly called Tamerlan who was of the Family of Chinguis-Chan King of Tartary Scach Choram who was living at my being in those parts was a younger Son of Scach Iahan's and had usurped the Crown from Prince Polagi his Nephew whom we found at Caswin at our coming into Persia. He might be then about sixty years of Age and had three Sons whereof the Elder was about 25. years of age but he had not
Caratts in weight appertain to the King Next to Orixa winding towards the North lyes the Kingdom of Bengala which gives name to the Gulph by the Ancients called Sinus Gangeticus They drive here a great trade in Rice Sugar and Cotton but chiefly in Silks which are esteem'd the best in all the Indies The finest Canes we have are brought from Bengala where there likewise grows a sort of Canes which are finer then the Osier in so much as Vessels are made of them which being glazed with Lacque on the inside coâ—tain liquid matters as long and as well as a Glass or Silver Bowl There also grows a certain Herb having on the top of its stalk which is about the compass of a mans thumb a great button like a tassel this tassel is spun out and there are excellent Stuffs made of it The Portuguez call it Herba de Bengala and make of it Hangings and Coverlets in which they represent all sorts of Figures The people of the Country are all Pagans and in the manner of their living exceeding brutish Theft is here very common and Adultery though it be punished with severity by cutting off their Noses who are taken in it they forbear not nevertheless to pollute themselves with all sort of uncleanness can be committed in that Vice The bear religious worship to the River of Ganges and hold the water hereof to be so holy that who wash themselves therein are cleansed from all their sins and this superstition reaches so far that the King of Narsinga sends to the Ganges for the water he uses for his purifications The Kingdom of Pegu joyns upon Bengala upon the East-side and takes its name from the capital City where the King hath placed the Seat of his Monarchy This is a very potent State and as Gaspar Balbi sayes whom I follow in this Relation because I saw not the Country the Metropolis is divided into two parts the one called the old the other the new Town The King with all that relate to the Court live in the latter and Merchants and Tradesmen inhabit the other For the greatest part the dwelling-houses are built of Canes but they are joyn'd to Ware-houses that are vaulted to prevent fire The new Town is four-square and the Flankers of it so streight that from any Gate thereof one may discover both corners of the Wall There are Bastions of Timber and a large Moat full of water where they keep Crocodiles to secure the Town from surprizal The Peguans hold this Creature to have something Divine about it whence it comes they are so desirous to drink the water though they fetch it not without danger of being devour'd by the Crocodiles as it often happens Notwithstanding they water their Elephants there but this is a Beast that strikes terrour in the Crocodiles and would be too hard for them The Palace Royal stands in the middle of the City and hath its peculiar Fortifications Walls and Moats whereby it is divided from the Town The Castle is said to be much more spacious then the City of Venice and that there is no entrance but on the Town-side by two Ports and as many Draw-bridges Within the first Port are the Houses of the Grandees who enter not into the body of the Castle without express Order from the King His Guard consisting of a great number of Souldiers with them called Bramas is kept at the second Port where they sit having their Arms hanging before them on the Wall In this place are the Stables for Elephants as well such as are kept for the Princes service as those design'd for War being about eight hundred in number The Kings Appartment is exceeding rich painted Azure with Flowers of Gold and when the King gives Audience he appears in great magnificence In his hand he holds a Fan to Fan himself and on his head he hath a quadruple Crown of Gold enamell'd white Near his person stand four Youths whom he makes use of in his brutalities and before him all the Grandees of the Court who whensoever they speak to him lift their hands above their head and bow down to the ground Being sate they bring before him his fairest Elephants and amongst the rest his white one which is said to be the only one in all the Indies nor ever is there more then one to be seen at Court which was brought thither after the Victory he gain'd against the King of Siam with whom he had not made War but to gain that Beast as we shall tell you anon These Beasts make their reverence to him and testifie a Worship to his Person If we may give credit to the fore-mentioned Balbi this next the King of China is the most Potent Prince on Earth He sayes this Prince can bring into the Field fifteen hundred thousand Men and above eight hundred Elephants and that his Treasure is sufficient for so mighty an Army by reason every Person of Quality is oblig'd to raise and maintain so many Men of War at his own proper charges He relates to this purpose that in his time the King of Auva his Fathers Brother but Vassal to the King of Pegu denying homage to his Nephew and to pay such Diamonds and precious Stones as he stood oblig'd to in that consideration the King of Pegu who was well assured his Uncle held a very private intelligence with some Noble men of his Kingdom against the security of his State and Person to shew how mindful he was of his Fathers request on his death-bed and the recommendation he then made in favour of the King of Auva sent him an Embassadour extraordinary to reduce him to his Duty and perswade him to come in again to him but his Uncle instead of taking the advantage of his Nephews Nobleness puts the Embassadour to death and declares War against the King of Pegu. But he having raised an Army of three hundred thousand men before he would march into the Field purg'd his Court and put to death those Traytors who had ingagede to deliver him into the hands of his Uncle Assembling then all the Confederates of this Treason under pretence of calling them to a Councel about this War he caused them to be secured and they their Wives and Children to be burnt alive Then to free himself from the Odium of so horrid an Execution he sends to the Judge that he should defer the Execution till he receiv'd express Order under his Signet but the Dogad gini or Judge who had other private instructions proceeded according to them That done the King of Pegu appeared in the head of his Army mounted on an Elephant covered with trappings of Tissue having by his side a Sword that was presented him by D. Lewis of Atayda Viceroy of Goa resolving to march in few dayes against his Uncle but he was hindred by the small Pox which he had in extremity As soon as he was recovered
a multitude of Frigots and Gallies well furnished with Artillery but their Souldiers and Sea-men are inexpert There is an infinite number of Barks for service against the Enemy upon the River as advantagious to them as at Sea by reason his Neighbours are rather worse provided then he but all his Forces joyned together were not sufficient to oppose a Spanish English or Holland Fleet yet this Princes Predecessors have often had great Victories over their Enemies while Martial Princes have had the Conduct of their Armies The Kings of Pegu and Siam have at all times pretended to a sole Monarchy over all the Kingdoms in these parts and without dispute Pegu had something the better but the continual War they have held as well for this as other differences hath so wasted the Frontiers of both these Kingdoms that the Armies are not able to subsist there any longer and so necessity forced them to conclude a Peace which since they break not but by incursions of some flying Army of twenty or thirty thousand during the Summer Season The last War the King of Siam made upon the Kings of Iangoma and Langsgaugh were purely out of ambition for the Soveraignty they pretended to over those Kingdoms 'T is not long likewise since the King of Cambrodia a Tributary to the King of Siam revolted whereupon Siam enters his Territories with a potent Army but was opposed so vigorously that he was forced to retire The Kingdom after this enjoyed a long peace till the deceased King having caused his Brother to be murthered to establish his Son upon the Throne one of the Princes of the Bloud took occasion to usurp the Crown as I shall immediately tell you This Usurper made shew as if he would espouse the interests of the State against the Kings of Pegu and Auva and especially against the King of Cambodia though he would not enter into open Hostility with them because he might have enough to do to stand arm'd against the designs the right Heirs might have upon his person He continued likewise the same friendship for the Hollanders his Predecessour had testified to them since he took their part against Fernando de Silva Governour of the Manilles This Portuguez taking the confidence to set upon a Holland Frigot upon the River of Menam in the year 1624. the King seiz'd upon his Vessel and forced Fernando to restore the Frigot Since which time the Siameses have been continually vext by the Portuguez in their Traffick with China though the Hollanders assist them effectually against their Enemies and declare highly for them as they lately likewise assisted the King of Siam with six Ships to chastise the Rebels of Patany For certain the King of Siam keeps more Elephants then any other Prince of India and herein consists his chiefest Forces For though the Indians affect this Beast of what part so ever he is yet have they a particular esteem for those of Siam for their make their strength and as they call it for their apprehension They take them here as they do in Pegu bringing into the Forrest fifteen or twenty tame Females which being as it were Decoyes suffer themselves to be led up and down till some of the wild Elephants herd with them and so are by little and little betrai'd into a large Court well wall'd about to which you enter by a double walk of Trees which as well as the Court is shut up with strong Rails As soon as the Elephants are in then are the Females let out one by one at another Gate leaving the wild by themselves Within this Court are two four-square Partitions divided with Pallizadoes like Cages the one in the middle the other at the side of the wall The posts whereof they are made are set at such distance that men may with ease pass in and out to vex and provoke the Beasts but they must make a swift retreat within their Appartment when this formidable Foe pursues them This is the most acceptable divertisement can be presented to the King who with the Nobility of his Court is ever present at this hunting After the Elephants are by this kind of hunting sufficiently tired they drive them into another close Pen no bigger then their bodies made of strong beams where they tye them by the legs to three or four tame Elephants whereupon hunger and acquaintance with the others in three or four dayes bring them to live as they do Sometimes they hunt them in the Forrest and open Champion with tame Elephants till at last they fasten them by the legs together and so by force drive them away but this not without conflict and danger Sometimes in the Kingdom of Siam they meet with white Elephants All over India they have a veneration for this Creature but the Siameses and the people of those parts say they are the Kings of the Elephants in so much as the King of Siam when he meets with one causes him to be served in Vessels of Gold to walk under a Canopy and allows him a Princely train In the year 1568. the King of Pegu understanding that the King of Siam had two white Elephants sent a solemn Embassy to request he might buy one of them and that he would set a price upon him which the King of Siam refusing the King of Pegu resolves to fetch him with a powerful Army He found such slender resistance in Siam that the King seeing his Kingdom and chief City in the hands of his Enemies took poyson whereof he dyed though that Conquest cost the King of Pegu the lives of five hundred thousand men Raja Hapi King of Siam who lived about the year 1616. acknowledged at that time the Soveraignty of the King of Pegu but this was only till he could find opportunity to free himself from this subjection as he did few years after For entering the Kingdom of Pegu with a powerful Army he laid â—iege to the City of Aracam resolved not to move thence till he had taken it In effect he rais'd not the Siege but not being able to force the City and unwilling to break his Oath he built a House near it where he dyed This Prince was so famous for his cruelty that 't is reported of him that being sick and hearing two of his Concubines laugh in an anti-chamber he commanded they should be immediately cut to pieces He had a Favourite called Ochi Chronwi whose ambition swell'd to that height that he brought four or five hundred Iaponeses into the Kingdom cloath'd like Merchants to be imployed to murther the King and settle him upon the Throne This design took no effect during the Kings life but he being dead Ochi Chronowi seiz'd on the Crown and caused himself to be proclaimed King The Son of Raja Hapi had friends sufficient to cast out this Usurper but he was not fortunate enough to keep the Crown in his possession for he was likewise slain and left it to
persons of Quality sometimes have loose Coats of Chamelot which reach but to their Thighs They are by this habit distinguished from other persons and by their train of Slaves without whom they never come abroad They delight much in Horses and to have their Saddles exceeding rich which are made like our great Saddles and their trappings studded with Gold and Silver striving to appear well mounted at Assemblies and to shew the King their horsemanship and the nimbleness of their Horses The Inhabitants that live in the inner parts of the Isle of Iava are Pagans and the greatest part Pythagoreans believing a transmigration of the Soul for which reason they eat neither Fish nor Flesh. Towards the South part of the Isle there are though but few some Mahumetans as we said before and they observe the Turkish Religion in all things sending for Priests to Meca They observe two Fasts The greater of the two begins the fifth of August and at the beginning of this Lent it is the Slaves renue their submission to their Master with Ceremonies extraordinary For they take them by the feet and rub them upward to the knees then closing their hands they rub the head face and neck and then unclose them again Leut being ended they celebrate Easter entertaining their Children and all their Domesticks with a Dinner There is scarce a Man in Bantam who hath not three or four Wives and some have ten or twelve besides Concubines who wait on their Wives especially when they go abroad They make no difference betwixt legitimate and natural Children A Father hath not power to sell his Child though he had it by a Slave Children go stark naked only the Girls cover their Privities with a thin plate of Gold or Silver They marry at the age of eight nine or ten years not only to prevent the disorders which in this hot Climate were inevitable but because the King is Heir to all who dying leave their Children under age whom he makes his Slaves as he doth the Widow and Family of the deceased The Dowry Persons of Quality give with their Daughters consists in Slaves of both Sexes and in a sum of Coxas which is very considerable when it amounts to three hundred thousand which is much about two Crowns and a half French money The Women appear with great decency at the marriage of their Relations though they use no great ceremonies One may know the day by certain Poles which are stuck in the Houses of the Bride and Bridegroom with Tassels of red and white Cotton Dinner ended they bring a Horse to the Bridegroom whereon he rides about the Town till evening expecting the slaves he is to have in marriage who come commonly loaden with Presents None but the nearest Kindred sup with them and see the new married couple abed Women of Quality are kept in such restraint that they suffer not their own Sons to come within their Chambers and when they go abroad which is very seldom all give place and respect to them even the King himself would do it nor dares any man speak to a married Woman without the leave of her Husband Women of Quality are known from others only by their Train for all are dressed after the same fashion wearing a Petticoat of Cotton or Silk which comes from the Breast to the mid-leg Stockings they have none and go all bare-headed tying up their Hair together on the Crown of their Head but when they come to Weddings or other publick Assemblies they wear a Coronet of Gold and have on their Fingers and about their Arms Rings and Bracelets They are so much addicted to cleanliness that there passes not a day but they bathe themselves three or four times They do not their natural necessities nor receive their benevolences from their Husbands but they go up to the Neck in Water to cleanse themselves They do no work at all which needs be no wonder for the Husbands themselves having imployed two or three hours about their Merchandize all the day after do nothing but chew Bettele amongst their Wives who are most sollicitous by all the little kindnesses they can imagine to court their love washing and rubbing them till they are stirr'd up to voluptuousness The Magistrate of the Town of Bantam sits in Judicature in the Court of the Pacebam from four or five in the Evening till it be Night The Plaintiff and Defendant appear both in person and plead their own Cause One only punishment of Criminals is they tye them to a post and stab them to death with a Poyniard Strangers have this priviledge that giving satisfaction to the party complaining they may redeem themselves from death except they have murthered in cold bloud or upon advantage The Kings Council meets upon Affairs of State under a broad spread Tree by Moon-light where sometimes there come near five hundred persons who part not till the Moon go down When the Council is risen they go to bed and there lye till dinner time afterwards the Councellours of State give audience to all who have ought to propose to the Councel When the King comes there in person he sits in the midst of them or else with the four principal Ministers of State and propounds the point wherein he requireth their advice or causes the Governour of the Town to propound it To a Councel of War they call the three hundred Captains Commanders of the Troops the Armies consist of which is raised in the Town it self They have a particular course for quenching fire which happens but too often among them for the Women have this Office imposed upon them while the Men stand in Arms to defend them in the mean time from pillage Persons of Quality when they go to Court or through the Town have carried before them a Lance and a Sword sheath'd in a black Velvet Scabbard and by these Ensigns oblige all the Street to make way for them who retiring back fit on their Heels till these Grandees are past Their ordinary wear is of Stuff wrought with Silk and they wear Turbants of a fine Bengalian Cloath Some amongst them wear Mandillions of Velvet black or crimson and never forget the Dagger or Poyniard under their Girdle They ever go with a numerous train of Slaves one amongst them carrying the Bettele-bottle another the Chamber-pot and a third the Umbrello They all go bare-footed it being thought a disparagement among them to walk with Shooes through the Town In their Houses many wear them they are made at Achim Malacca in China and the Isle of Sumatra where are also made most part of the Umbrello's used in the Indies The Iavians are haughty self-conceited perfidious mischievous and cruel who never fail to make an end of such they once get advantage of and having once committed a murther they kill all in their power for knowing death to be their inevitable reward they discharge their fury
the Soldans of their Commerce and the Portuguez continued Masters of it while they kept that Sea but after the Hollanders appeared there they were constrained to give place and to lose an advantage which no other durst have disputed with them In the year 1511. the Portuguez discovered the Molucques Francisco Serano who first set foot on shore found so much simplicity there that Boleyfe King of Ternate and Almansor King of Tidor made it their earnest request to have the advantage of the Fort the Portuguez were about to build to secure the possession of these Isles 'T is true these two Princes were declared enemies and thought to make use of these Strangers Forces in their particular quarrels but 't is to be believed their jealousie was grounded on other principles for that Cachil Laudan King of Bachiam made the like request to Tristan de Meneses who went to relieve Serrano 'T was now some time since Pope Alexander the sixth had divided the two Indies betwixt the Kings of Castile and Portugal in so much that of the three hundred sixty degrees which compose the Globe the Spaniards were to possess what they conquered within one hundred and eighty degrees counting from the thirty sixth degree of Lisbone Westward and the Portuguez the other hundred and eighty degrees Eastward by vertue of which division the Emperour Charles the fifth pretended the Molucques belonged to the Crown of Castile by reason Ferdinand Magellanus who had done very advantageous Service in the Indies under Alphonso Albuquerque and had with little satisfaction deserted the Portuguez to serve under Charles computed by Ptolomies authority upon a false supposal that between Indus and Ganges there were thirty degrees whereas there are scarce ten that the Molucques being distant six hundred Leagues which make about thirty six degrees from Malacca Westward they belonged to the Crown of Castile He was commissioned by the Emperour to go take possession of them and upon this design parted from Saint Lucars the 21. of September 1519. and having wrought to 53. degrees and passed the Streight called to this day by his name the Streight of Magellan he came almost to the height of the Molucques but by contrary Winds and the Sea-currents he was forc'd down to the Manelles where he was slain with thirty five of his company Gonzalo Gomez d' Espinosa and Sebastian del Cano made afterwards some establishments for the Emperour taking an Oath of Fidelity of Sutrau Carala King of Ternate Predecessour of Sultan Bongue of Sultan Almanzor King of Tidor and Sultan Iusuff King of Gilolo But the possession of these Isles was of such importance to the Portuguez for continuation of their Spice trade that they did what was possible to keep them wherein they found the less trouble because the Emperour had his hands full in Europe and was but imperfectly informed of the Affairs in Asia as well by reason the Portuguez hindred the Castilian Ships passing by the Cape of good hope as that the passage by the West was so dangerous that hitherto it is not used Notwithstanding all Acts of Hostility passing between these two Nations in the Indies 't was thought convenient that Commissioners for both Kings should meet at Segovia in the year 1525. but not agreeing the meeting was removed the year following to Sevil where likewise they came to no result so as the business continued in this state till the Treaty at Saragossa in the year 1529. at which the Emperour engag'd these Islands to the King of Portugal for three hundred and fifty thousand Ducates Ever since the Portuguez have injoyed them till by the union of the Kingdom of Castile and Portugal they were confounded in Philip the Second After this the Hollandersâ—ut â—ut in there and the revolution that happened in Portugal in the year 1640. hath so changed the face of Affairs that the Spaniards must first conquer that Kingdom before they think of the Appendages belonging thereto Ternate is the first and largest Isle of the Molucques scituate twenty eight Leagues from the Isle of Banda and forty degrees on this side the Line It is about eight Leagues in compass and no bad Country yet yields but little Provisions besides Poultry and Goats It produces likewise Almonds excellent good and bigger then ordinary though there be three or four in every shell which is so hard 't is not easily to be broken with a Hammer but they make so strong a fire that Smiths and Forgemen use it instead of Coal The Inhabitants likewise plant Tobacco but 't is far short of that comes from the West-Indies The chief Town called Gamma lamma stands on the Sea-side and is but one Street about 2500. paces long Their Houses are built of Canes or Timber as are also the Masquites and Palace Royal. The Road is of no use for that the bottom being nothing but Stone and Rock an Anchor cannot fix The Holland Vessels ride before a Village called Telingamma between the Islands of Ternate and Tidor within half a League of Malay The most precious thing in these Islands is the Clove I know not if it be the same Pliny calls Garyophylla though the Persians call it Calafur and these two words seem to have the same Etymology The Spaniards sometimes called it Girofe but at present they call it Clavos by reason of its likeness to an ordinary Nail The Molucques call the Tree that bears them Siger the Leaf Varaqua and the Fruit Chamque The Tree is much like the Laurel only the Leaves something less and narrower like the Almond-tree and shoots forth its branches at the top as Myrtle doe When 't is in flower it persumes the Air round about it and the Fruit is at first white in time grows green and so brown but not black till it be gathered Some beat them down with Poles but commonly they fasten a Rope to the branch a little above the boal and drawing it to them force away the Fruit and leaves with much violence and so it is when the Inhabitants sell it and so the Chineses and Indians transport it The Trees grow of themselves as the Chesnut-trees do without planting or any cultivation In the eighth year they bear and last a hundred years bringing forth every two years for besides the injury done the branches in getting off the fruit as we said before the Inhabitants break off the young buds which shoot forth the first year that they may be sure of a better crop the next It is at its full ripeness from August till Ianuary and when it is gathered it is laid in the Sun and in two or three dayes it is sufficiently dried Avicenna affirms that the Gum of this Tree is like Turpentine but he is mistaken it being certain that it does not produce any at all For it is so hot that it does not only drink up all the Water Heaven is pleased to send it but it also
to some Island for very petty Offences The Castle of Iedo which is the place of his ordinary residence is near two Leagues in compass and is fortified with three Walls and as many Moats very deep and built of Free-stone but so irregular that it is impossible to assign it any certain Figure Within less then three hundred paces a Man must pass through eight or nine Gates not one of them standing opposite to another for being come within the first he must turn on the right hand to go to the second and being come within that on the left hand to go to the third and so alternately till he comes to the last Just within the last Gate there is a Magazine of Arms for three or four thousand men on which about all the Streets which are fair and broad having on both sides many magnificent Palaces The Gates are done over with great Iron bars and over every Gate there is a House wherein two or three hundred Souldiers may be lodg'd The Emperours Palace stands in the midst of the Castle and hath belonging to it many Appartments Halls Chambers Closets Galleries Gardens Orchards Groves Ponds Rivers Fountains Courts c. and several particular Houses for his Wives and Concubines At your coming out of the Palace you go into that quarter where the Princes of the Bloud and Counsellers of State live and thence into another quarter where are the Palaces of the Kings and great Lords of Iapan which are all gilt both within and without and the more sumptuously built out of this respect that there is a certain emulation amongst them who shall be at greatest expence to please the Emperour In the next quarter to this there live other Princes and Lords who are not so powerful as the former yet have their Palaces gilt and so richly furnish'd that a Man would think at his first coming in he met with Mountains of Gold In this quarter there live some of the Wives and eldest Sons of those Princes whom the Emperour hath brought up in the sight of the Court as so many Hostages of their Fathers fidelity so that this Castle though as big as a considerable City yet is so full of people that the Streets can hardly contain them When the Emperour goes out of his Palace he either rides on horse-back or is carried in a Palanquin open of all sides and he is accompany'd by a great number of Lords whom they call the Emperours Camarades These Lords are of great quality and very rich yet do they not think it any dishonour to apply themselves to such things as are either necessary or delightful Some are skill'd in Musick some in Physick some are excellent at Writing or Painting others study eloquence and the mannagement of Affairs Next them there goes a part of the Guard which consists altogether of persons cull'd out among the Children of younger Brothers Cousins or Kinsmen of great Lords among whom there are also some natural Children of such as either actually are in employments or may upon presumption of their Birth pretend thereto Then follow the ordinary Guard commanded by their Colonels and other Officers who so dispose thereof that two or three thousand march before the Emperour and as many after him Among so many Souldiers there is not one but there hath been some trial made of his courage nor any that hath not gone through all the necessary exercises in order to such a kind of life and whose countenance and demeanour is not answerable to the employment they are put into They leave a space between them and the Emperour for a great number of other great Lords who are about his Majesties person who must needs make a strange shew among five or six hundred Men all clad in black some on horse-back some afoot all marching with such gravity and so orderly that there is not only any one man to be seen out of his rank but a man hears not so much as a word spoken The Streets are swept and strew'd with Sand or Gravel and the doors of all the houses standing open yet is there not a person to be seen either in the shops or at the windows or if it happen there be the Guard makes them kneel till such time as the Emperour is passed by Once every five year the Emperour goes to Meaco to do reverence to the Dayro who is the true Prince of Iapan and still hath the quality but without any function There is a whole year spent in making all things ready for that journey whereof we shall hereafter give a particular description and Orders are issued out to the Lords who are to follow and who accordingly come at the day appointed to the places where they are to meet the King dividing themselves so as that some go before to relieve such as come from the Court so to prevent the disorder and confusion which were unavoidable among so great a number of Princes who are all oblig'd to make their appearance upon this occasion with all the bravery and magnificence they can From the City of Iedo to that of Meaco there are a hundred and twenty five Leagues and within every three or four Leagues there is a considerable City able to lodge the whole Court yet hath the Emperour caused to be built between those two places at an equal distance one from the other eight and twenty fair Houses of which there 〈◊〉 twenty great Castles and in every House there is a Retinue and 〈…〉 else befitting a Kings Court as Gentlemen Guards Horses Officers and Servants with Provisions necessary for the subsistance of the whole Train They who go along with the Emperour from the City of Iedo leave him to the care of those whom they find in the first House These accompany and conduct him to the second and so from one to another till he comes to the City of Meaco in his return from whence he observes the same order being attended from one House to another till he comes to Iedo The Emperours of Iapan build many of these Castles and have them finish'd in so short a time that they will have a Structure compleated in six moneths which in Europe would take up as many years We have an Instance of it in the Castle which the Emperour had built in the year 1636. in the Province of Nicko four dayes journey from the City of Iedo It is fortified with a double Moat and a double Rampier and both of Free-stone and it is so spacious and consists of so many particular Palaces for the Grandees of the Court and so many Appartments Gardens and Fountains for the Emperour himself that the best Architect in Europe would not have finish'd it in several years yet was this great building compleated in less than five months there were so many Masons Carpenters Joyners Stone-cutters Gilders Painters c. employ'd about it This Castle is so far within the Countrey that the Emperour lodges
of age have more piercing Wits and are more searching and inquisitive then our youth is at seventeen or eighteen years of age They are not sent to School till they are seven or eight years of age upon this account that as they affirm Children are not capable of instruction before that time and that they are apt to learn only naughtiness and unhappy tricks one of another The Masters when they meet with dull Boys never either chide or beat them for that but teach them to read and write by degrees by raising an emulation in them to do as well as others and by this course they improve them much better then if they treated them harshly it being to be observ'd that it is an incorrigible Nation expecting to be mildly treated and seldom to be bettered by soul means and blows They never swath the Children but as soon as they are brought into the World the Midwife having wash'd them in cold Water thrusts them into the Sleeves of their Iaponneses and by that means they so harden them against heat and cold that many times such as scarce have the use of their legs will crawl stark naked of all four about the House and into the Fields The eldest Son being come to Mans estate the Father resigns his charge to him or if he be a Merchant makes over his Trade to him with the better half of his Estate assigns him the best Lodgings in the House and goes with the rest of the Family to another part of it or if he be a person of ability he resigns the whole House to him and takes another mannaging what he hath reserved of his Estate for the advancement of his other Sons if so be he hath any The Daughters have no part of the Fathers Estate no not even when they are married in regard they would not have Wives to make any advantage of their Dower so that if the Brides Father should on the Wedding-day send a sum of Money to the Bridegroom he returns it back again with great Complements and sends word that he would not have his Father-in-Law think that his Addresses to his Daughter proceeded from any other motive then the desire he had of his alliance and consequently that he expected not to make any advantage of his Estate They are so ambitious and highly conceited of themselves that it is seldom seen a Iaponnese does any thing wherewith he might be reproached but on the contrary they would rather lose their lives then betray their honour Of this I shall here insert an illustrious Example In the time of the War between Fidery and his Guardian the King or Prince of Cocora who had discovered some inclination to the contrary party was forc'd to leave his Wife and Children as Hostages with Fidery who hearing that the Prince of Cocora had openly declar'd for his Adversary sent word to his Wife that his pleasure was she should come and live within the Palace She would have excused her self by representing to Fidery that she was a Wife and as such ow'd the Prince her Husband the same obedience as her Husband ow'd to the Emperour so that if his Majesty expected she should do what he would have her his best course were to apply himself to her Husband that he might command her to do it Fidery seeing her constancy sent her word that if she came not he would have her brought thither by force But the Princess considering with her self that if she left her House it would be a dishonour both to her and her Husband withdrew her self with her Nurse and Children and some of the menial Servants who proffer'd to dye with her to a Chamber into which she caused Gun-powder and Wood to be brought and having made her Will and writ a Letter to her Husband she put both into the hands of a trustly Person with order to depart as soon as he had seen the Powder set on fire and by this means gave an extraordinary Demonstration of her constancy They are also very punctual in the performance of what they had promised those who desire their assistance or protection For no Iaponnese but will promise it any one that desires it of him and spend his life for the person who hath desired him to do it and this without any consideration of his Family or the misery whereto his Wife and Children may be thereby reduced Hence it comes that it is never seen a Malefactor will betray or discover his Complices but on the contrary there are infinite Examples of such as have chosen rather to die with the greatest torment imaginable then bring their Complices into any inconvenience by their confession Iapan is so rich and abundant in all things that some few Merchants excepted who trace into the Indies there is hardly any Iaponnese who meddles with the venting of any forreign Commodities The greatest Commerce which is carried on there is that of the Chineses who have continued theirs in this Country ever since the Island was first peopled The Spaniards and Portuguez have traded thither these six or seven score years and the English had no sooner begun but they gave over their trading into those parts by reason of the small advantage made thereby Those of Siam and Cambodia were wont to send thither yearly two or three Ionques but this is also given over especially since the Dutch bring them the Commodities of Iapan at a lower rate and with less danger then they could fetch them themselves The chief Trade is at the City of Meaco whither most of the Merchants as well forreigners as those of the Country bring all their Commodities and where they have their Agents and Factors to distribute them over all the Island The Commodities which Forreigners bring to Iapan are about four or five thousand Picols of Silk and abundance of Stuffs of Silk Cotton Thread c. above two hundred thousand Deer skins about a hundred thousand other Hides Hemp Linnen-clothes Wooll Garments Cotton Quicksilver all sorts of Gums and Medicinal Drugs Spices Cloves Pepper Sugar Musk a sort of Wood called Sappan and Calambac Purcelan Camphir Borax ' Elephants Teeth Coral and all kind of Mercury which the Chineses bring The Chineses and Iaponneses have heretofore lived in very good correspondence in so much that there hardly passed a year but the Kings of those two powerful States visited one another by reciprocal Embassies This friendship continued till the Iaponneses who lived in China became so insolent as to ransack a whole City and to ravish all the Women and Maids that fell into their hands The Chineses resented the affront as they ought and killed all the Iaponneses they met withall The King of China considering of how dangerous consequence it was to afford refuge to a sort of people who had the insolence to commit such an action in the time of peace banished them his Kingdom for ever ordering the Decree to be graven in
defeated Cambaya described p. 31 Its Markets Inhabitants Commerce and Gardens an Indian widdow burnt with her own consent ibid. How that custom came up p. 32 The civility of an Indosthan Mahumetan Bettele Areca described much used by the Indians p. 33 Leaves Cambaya the 25. and returns to Amadabat the 27. ibid. Comes to the Village of Serguntra what they feed travelling Cattle with p. 34 Tschitbag Garden described ibid. Leaves Amadabath the second time the 29. and comes to Agra 160. Leagues p. 35 Agra described its Market-places Caravanseras Mosqueys the Sepulchre of a Giant ibid. Its Sanctuaries Baths the Mogul's Palace described p. 36 The Mogul's Throne the Seraglio Treasury a sort of Money of eight thousand Crowns the piece An Inventory of the Mogul's Treasure p. 37 No hereditary dignity in the Mogul's Country the chief Officers the Mogul's Revenue p. 38 The Armes of the Cavalry they observe no order in fighting their Artillery the order of their Armies p. 40 The Mogul's Guard the dignity of the Rajas the Mogul's ordinary Retinue he changes the place of his abode according to the seasons p. 41 How the Mogul celebrates the first day of the year the Mogul's birth-day another Mahumetan Feast p. 42 The Mogul descended from Tamerlane a pleasant story of him ibid. The Mogul's divertisement a combat between a Lyon and a Tiger another between a Lyon and a Man arm'd only with Sword and Buckler p. 43 Another between a Man and a Tiger Mandelslo discovered to have killed an Indosthan at Ispahan p. 44 He leaves Agra and comes to Lahor 70. Leagues p. 45 All the way from Agra to Lahor is planted on both sides with Trees which are full of Parrots and Apes Lahor described the Baths of the Mahumetans ibid. DECEMBER The 19. He leaves Amadabath with a Caravan of a hundred Waggons and comes to Surat the 26. p. 46 Persons of Quality have Banners carried before them an engagement with the Country people ibid. Another with the Rasboutes the English President resigns his charge p. 47 The Sulthan's entrance into Surat how the Mogul came to unite the Kingdom of Guzuratta to his Crown p. 48 The Governour of Amadabath is Vice-roy of Guzuratta disposes of the Revenue of the Kingdom what the Revenue of Guzuratta amounts to ibid. The administration of Iustice the other Cities of Guzuratta p. 49 The Inhabitants of Guzuratta their cloathing p. 50 Their Women their Cloathing they account black teeth a piece of beauty p. 51 The Benjans are ingenious their ceremonies of marriage Polygamy lawful their Religion they worship the Devil p. 52 Their Mosqueys Purification their God Brama their opinion concerning the Creation of the World ibid. Brama's Lieutenants the authority of the Bramans p. 53 They believe the immortality and transmigration of Souls a strange employment of the Bramans among the Malabars the Sects of the Benjans their cloathing their belief p. 54 Their Mosqueys their extraordinary abstinences their publick Assemblies the Sect of Samarath ibid. Their God and his Substitutes a particular ceremony about the dead the Women burn themselves at their Husbands death The sect of Bisnow their God p. 55 Their manner of life their firing their Wives are not burnt the Sect of the Goeghys their God p. 56 Their belief hold not the transmigration of Souls a strange manner of life the superstition of the Benjans p. 57 The Rasboutes their belief a story of five Rasboutes their charity towards Birds they marry their Children young a remarkable story p. 58 The Parsis their manner of life the seven Servants of God twenty six other Servants of God p. 59 They have no Mosqueys p. 60 The Badge of their Religion their houses fire accounted sacred among them they severely punish adultery their manner of burial ibid. The Indous Jentives their belief the Theers p. 61 The Marriage ceremonies of the Indian Mahumetans the effect of Opium Divorce lawful p. 62 The education of their children their interments are called Mussulmans their stature and complexion p. 63 Their habit their houses the ceremonies of their visits their expence ibid. Their Domesticks the condition of Tradesmen their Houses Merchants p. 64 The several Sects of the Mahumetans no lnne in Guzuratta their expertness at the Bow they have of Aristotle and Avicenna's works p. 65 Their Language the Diseases of the Country Winter begins in June the Commerce of Guzuratta the manner of making Indico p. 66 Salt-peter Borax Assa foetida Opium p. 67 The Drugs of Guzuratta precious Stones Weights Measures Money much counterfeit money in the Indies ibid. The fertility of Guzuratta their way of making Bread no Oats in the Indies their Seed-time and Harvest the Mogul Proprieter of the whole Country their Gardens Trees Horses Beef Mutton p. 68 Their Fowl Fish Ships their trade to the Red-sea to the Persian Gulf to Achin the Commerce of the Malabars in Guzuratta p. 69 The Commerce of the Portuguez p. 70 M.DC.XXXIX IANVARY The first he leaves Surat takes shipping for England and comes to Goa the eleventh following p. 71 The way from Goa to Visiapour the names and scituation of several Cities of Decam p. 72 Visiapour described the way from it to Dabul p. 73 The City of Dabul described the City of Rasiapour p. 74 The Inhabitants of Decam the Money of Decam p. 75 The King of Decam tributary to the Mogul the History of Chavas-chan he is made Regent of the Kingdom engages the State in a war the King implores the assistance of his Grandees against him ibid. He attempts the life of his Prince but is prevented and kill'd p. 76 His friends would revenge his death his ingratitude the Mogul concerns himself in Mustapha's fortunes the King of Decam able to raise two hundred thousand Men. p. 77 His Artillery ibid. The English President visits the Governour of Goa p. 78 The Jesuits of Goa treat him a Feast at the profess'd House of the Jesuits there with a Ball. p. 79 The advantage the Jesuits make of those divertisements in order to the propagation of Christian Religion Another Feast at the Jesuits Colledge the Sepulchre of St. Francis Xaverius p. 80 The Hospital of Goa the Monastery of the Augustines the Portuguez pay the English 45000. Crowns p. 81 The Viceroy's Presents to the President those of the General of the Gallions and the Jesuits ibid. He leaves Goa the 20. and comes the 29. near Ceylon Goa described how taken by the Portuguez p. 82 Its Inhabitants Winter begins in June the Diseases of those parts the Women of Goa love white men the Herb Doutry and its use the Women go not abroad p. 83 The jealousie of the Portuguez the Portuguez Souldiers their Marriages and Christnings their Slaves p. 84 The Inhabitants of the Country and their Houses the Decanins excellent Gravers c. p. 85 Their Women deliver'd without pain they live in perfect health to a hundred years of age the Jews of Goa the Mahumetans their Money the Customs upon
forreign Commodities p. 86 The Viceroy of Goa a character of him his power revenue ibid. The Malabars Zamorin Emperour of Calicuth and Cananer p. 78 The priviledges of the Nayres the writing of the Malabars the order of succession in Calicuth Cochim described the power of the King of Cochim a great priviledge of the Bramans p. 88 The Zamorin of Calicuth sometime Emperour of the Malabars the Cape of Comory the Isle of Ceylon p. 89 When discover'd by the Portuguez the History of Fimala Derma King of Candy he murthers his Father and three Brothers declares against the Portuguez p. 9 The treason of a Portuguez Renegado p. 91 The Dutch ill treated in the Island of Ceylon the Kingdom of Candy its Inhabitants their Religion ibid. Kings tributary to the Portuguez Mines of Gold and Silveâ— p. 92 The Maldives the Coast of Coromandel the Inhabitants thereabouts Christians a story of St. Thomas p. 93 He is martyr'd at Edesa the City of Meliapour p. 94 Bengala its Inhabitants their superstition ibid. Pegu the Palace Royal the Guard p. 95 The Kings forces he makes war upon his Vncle King of Auva a just Execution but too severe a Combat betwixt two Kings the Pagodes of Pegu. ibid. The Peguans Armes they are Pagans adore the Devil their Feasts how the Kings Corps are burnt their Ecclesiasticks p. 96 A third part of all mens estates falls to the King a strange Sawce other peculiar Customs the Commodities of Pegu. p. 97 The River Menan overflows as the Nile India its houses p. 98 The King of Siam of a very ancient Family is absolute his manner of life hath but one Wife p. 99 A magnificent Procession a Procession upon the River the Revenue of the King of Siam p. 100 His Expences their Punishments manners of justification the Militia of Siam p 101 Their Arms both the Kings of Siam and Pegu pretend to Soveraignty the King of Siam a friend to the Dutch ibid. Elephant-huntingâ— the occasion of the War between the Kings of Pegu and Siam Raja Hapi King of Siam p. 102 The King of Siam a Pagan a Hierarchy Beguins a kind of religious women the belief of the Inhabitants lights in the Mosqueys Prayers for the dead p. 103 The Siameses invoke the Devil their qualities habit houses marriages education of children ibid. The traffick of the City of India the King a Merchant the money of Siam the settlement of the Dutch in Siam p. 104 The Kingdom of Cambodia the Palace-Royal the Lords of Cambodia the Portuguez keep out the Dutch p. 105 Malacca when discovered p. 106 A description of Patana its Inhabitants p. 107 The Air of Patana Mahumetans p. 108 Batusabar Metropolis of Patana its Inhabitants the Language of the Malayans the Island of Sumatra p. 109 Was sometime divided into many Kingdoms the King of Achim the City of Achim the Inhabitants p. 110 Their Religion food the mournful tree Cocoes ibid. How they make Wine their Paper Bananas what p. 111 Pepper how planted the Island of Java its Inhabitants the King of Bantam p. 112 A sulphureous Mountain the names of several Cities of those parts ibid. The Kings Palace the Guard of the City its Market-places Armourers p. 113 The City of Tuban described the Kings Palace its commerce p. 114 The Javians Mahumetans their Fasts they marry their daughters very young the ceremonies of their marriages Women of Quality are kept in restraint p. 115 The Magistrates of Bantam the Kings Councel the train and state of the Nobility the qualities of the Javians they are good Souldiers p. 116 The Javians sophisticate their Wares how they imploy their Slaves ibid. The Commerce of Forreigners there the trade of China the money of Java p. 117 The Portuguez commerce Oysters of three hundred pound weight Crocodileâ— Civet Hens the Rhinocerot Ants. p. 118. The Fruits of Java Areca Mangas Ananas Samaca described p. 119. Tamarinds Tabaxir Canes so big that Boats are made of them a fruit called Duriaons its qualities ibid. The Lantor-tree Cubebs Mangosthan Talasse Jaca wild Cinnamon Carcapuli Costus Indicus p. 120 Zerumbet Galanga Benjamin Sandal Ginger Anacardium Pala de cuebra Calamba p. 121 Lacquc other Drugs of Java the Dutch fortifie in Jacatra p. 122 They give it the name of Batavia Madura a place of no trade the Isle of Baly its scituation Inhabitants p. 123 It abounds in Rice Fowl Drugs Fish hath Gold mines the King of Baly the Island of Borneo its Metropolis the Bâ—zoar stone p. 124 The Haven the Dutch treat with the King of Sambas about the trade of Diamonds the Island Celebes its Metropolis its Inhabitants are Cannibals 125 The Isle Gilolo its Inhabitants and Fruits Amboyna its Inhabitants discovery p. 126 The Dutch take Amboyna Castle the Religion of the Inhabitants their superstitions ibid. Their circumcision marriage oaths their qualities p. 127 Banda its Inhabitants their Armes they live long p. 128 Nutmegs Mace Oyl of Nutmeg the Dutch Forts in Banda prodigious Serpents the Moluccas p. 129 Sagu How Bread made of it how Wine the Inhabitants of the Moluccas p. 130 Are partly Mahumetans a particular piece of policy the Clove trade the Portuguez seize it are dispossest thereof by the Dutch a difference between the Castilians and the Portuguez about the Moluccas grounded on a false supposition 131 Magelan finds a new passage the Isle Ternate what Cloves it affords ibid. The Clove-tree grows without planting Avicenna's errour whaâ— Cloves the Moluccas yield yearly the Mountain of Ternate but one season in the Moluccas 132 A Wood incombustible leafes turned to Butterflies Birds of Paradise the King of Bachiam the Isle of Machiam p. 133 The Philippine Islands the hunting of Crocodiles p. 134 The commerce of the Chineses and Spaniards in the Philippines the Archbishop of Manille is Viceroy a description of the said City p. 135 Whether Japan be an Island or part of the Continent the names and revenues of the great Lords of Japan p. 136 The revenue of the Ministers of State p. 141 The Emperour of Japan's policy the Lords have three names p. 142 Slaves die with their Masters their manner of ripping up their bellies their Mesquites the Cities of Japan not walled no taxes in Japan p. 143 The power of Masters over their Servants Gaming criminal all the relations of Offenders die with them a particular punishment for theft p. 144 The crimes for which all the kindred of a criminal are put to death an example of it ibid. Lying punished with death the Emperours expence Jedo Castle the Palaces of the Kings p. 145 The Emperours retinue the Dayro the Emperours magnificence p. 146 His Treasures the Emperour of Japan a Viceroy confines his Wife to a Castle p. 147 How the Emperour of Japan came to the Crown Ceremonies at the choice of a Nurse for the Dayro's Son p. 148 A revolution in Japan a Souldier of Fortune gets to be General of the Army and Soveraign is poysoned ibid. Bestows the Regency
on one of the Lords who put to death the Heir of the Crown the Emperour of Japan raises his Armies upon the charge of his Subjects is able to raise three hundred sixty eight thousand foot and thirty eitht thousand eight hundred Horse p. 149 Their Arms their Companies and Regiments the Council of State the expence of great Lords p. 150 The magnificence of the Lords in their buildings three years requisite to provide an entertainment for the Emperour the Emperour marries all the great Lords Women kept in restraint p. 151 Women never talk of business the generosity of a Japponese Wife p. 152 An example of modesty in a Maid the reservedness of their Conversation the men jealous ibid. Adultery severely punished fornication permitted they have no devotion their Pagodes and Priests p. 153 The Ecclesiasticks divided into several sects the death they are put to for breach of Vows their opinion concerning the Soul no disputes about Religion p. 154 Thephate Christians their diabolical inventions to put them to death p. 155 Their houses their civility p. 156 No drinking houses in Japan their Musick Wine Tsia how prepared their marriages and education of children ibid. They go not to school till seven or eight years of age are not swath'd the Japonneses tender in point of honour p. 157 What Forreigners trade thither the occasion of the rupture between the Chineses and Japponeses Japan was not peopled by Chineses p. 158 No Custom paid in Japan no correspondence between the Emperour of Japan and other Princes their Arithmetick the Dayro writes the History of the Country p. 159 The money of Japan its store of Cattel and Fowl several sorts of Mineral waters p. 160 Their Physicians the riches of Japan a particular way of melting Iron the Roman Catholick Religion planted in Japan the Spaniards banish'd it the Dutch establish there the Air of Japan p. 161 The Japonneses distinguished into five Orders the principal Ministers of Japan the procession of the Dayro and the Emperour the Dayro's baggage the Ladies of Honour ibid. Twenty seven Lords of the Dayro's Retinue twenty four Gentlemen the Dayro's three Wives the chief servants of those Ladies threescore and eight Gentlemen p. 162 The Emperour and his Ward the greatest Lords of Japan the Dayro's Concubines his Secretary p. 163 His Musickâ— the Dayro himself the Emperours Presents to him p. 164 The Isle of Tayovang the Dutch settle there and call it New Zealand the Government is absolutely anarchical p. 165 The places possest there by the Dutch the Inhabitants of Fermosa are civil good-natur'd ingenious its Fruits ibid. Their Wine the Women go a fishing How the Men liveâ— their hunting p. 166 The manner of their War their Armes the Island Tugin p. 167 Their Magistracy and its authority their punishments p. 168 The Magistrate hath no power their respect for old age mens age in order to marriage p. 169 Their marriages a pleasant kind of married life the women not permitted to bear children till thirty five years of age p. 170 Divorce lawful among them their houses their sustenance have no Festivals Dogs-hair Stuffes their Funerals p. 171 They neither bury nor burn the dead a sure remedy in painful diseases their Religion their sins ibid. Their Gods women only imployed about Religious Mysteries their Devotion p. 172 The Kingdom of China its Frontiers Extent Provinces p. 173 The Province of Peking its Frontiers Cities Families Revenue Xuntien described c. p. 174 The Palaces the Provinces of Xansi and Xensi their Frontiers c. p. 175 The great Wall by whom built the Province of Xantung its Frontirrs Cities c. p. 176 The Provinces of Honan c. the Province of Suchuen c. Radix Sina the Province of Huguang c. the Province of Quangsi its Frontiers c. ibid. Porcelane made at Kiangsi the Province of â—anking c. the Prince of Checkiang c. p. 177 The City of Quinsay Mark Paulo vindicated the greatness of the City of Huncheu the Province of Fokien c. the Inhabitants of Fokien trade most out of the Kingdom p. 178 The Province of Quantung c. the industry of the Inhabitants the Province of Quangsi its Cities c. the Province of Quieucheu its Cities c. p. 179 The Province of Junan c. both black and white Chineses the difference of Fruits in China the Chineses hate idleness China Fruits better then ours Wax Honey Sugar p. 180 Flesh cheap their Fishing how they breed Ducks ibid. The Inhabitants their cloathing their women their money the provision made for the subsistance of the poor p. 181 Printing in China before we had it their way of writing their paper the dignity of Loytia the Chineses very Ceremonious p. 182 Their Feasts their Plate their New-years day the honour they do Embassadours p. 183 Their Weddings Polygamy lawful the Government of China Monarchial p. 184 Offensive war made defensive by a fundamental Law their King called Son of Heaven the Council of State Astrology requisite in Councellors of State Viceroys and Governours ibid. Other Officers of Provinces Officers of the Crown Debtors how treated an admirable Order their tortures Prisons p. 185 Their punishments the Visitours p. 186 The Religion of the Chineses their Divinities three China Saints the Fable of Quaniâ—a p. 187 The Fable of Neoma the Chineses use incantations they invoke the Devil ibid. Their belief concerning the Creation they believe the immortality of the Soul Purgatory p. 188 They believe the Metempsychosis their Religious men they use beads funeral Ceremonies their mourning the present state of China p. 189 The Tartars possess'd of China forced thence the Origine of the Royal House of Teimings the beginning of the Tartarian war Leaotung taken p. 190 Vanlie dies and is succeeded by Tayohang who forces away the Tartars but they re-enter Leagtung the Kings of China and Tartary die the Chineses betray their Country Thienâ—ung King of Tartary dies p. 191 Lizungzo enters the Province of Xansi takes the City of Peking p. 192 A Chinese calls the Tartars to his relief against the Rebels the Tartars will not depart China p. 193 They proclaim their King Emperour of China Usanguei made King the Southerly Provinces chose another Emperour the Tartars enter the Province of Nanking Hungquang strangled ibid. Several Chinese Lords retire to Hangcheu Another Emperour who is also strangled other Princes this division proves the ruine of China the Tartars reduce the Province of Fokien the treachery of a Chinese Pirate p. 194 An Emperour chosen in Quangsi the Tartars absolute Masters of China p. 195 FEBRVARY He leaves Ceylon the 20. and comes the second of July following to the Island of Madagascar where they stay six weeks The Voyage continued several sorts of Birds p. 196 Several sorts of Fish ibid. Very changeable weather near the Line p. 197 Maurice Island discover'd its Haven a prodigious Thorn-back No four-footed beasts in the said Island the story of a
Devil Their Mosqueys Their Purification Their God Brama Their opininion concerning the Creation of the World Brama's Lieutenants The Authority of the Bramanes Tâ—ey believe the immortality and transmigration of 〈◊〉 A strange imployment of the Bramans among the Malabares The Sects of the Benjans Their Cloathing Their Belief Their Mosqueys Their extraordinary â—bstinences Their publick Assemblies The Sect of Samarath Their belief Their God and his Substitutes A particular Ceremony about the dead The Women burn themselves at their Husbands death The reason of it The Sect of Bisnow Their God Their manner of life Their â—iring Their Wives are not burnt The Sect of the Goêghy Their God Their belief Hold not the transmigration of Souls A strange manner of living The superstition of the Benjans Rasboutes their belief A Story of five Rasboutes Their Charity towards Biâ—ds They marry their Children very young A remarkable Story The Parsis Their manner of life The seven Servants of God Twenty six other Servants of God They have no Mosqueys The bodge of their Religion Their Houses Fire is accounted sacred among them They severely punish Adultory Their manner of burial Drunâ—enness The Indous Jentives Their belief Theers The marriage Ceremonies of the Indian Mahumetans The effects of Opium They may be divorced They bring up their Children well Their Interments They are called Mansulmans or Mussulmans Their stature and complexion Their Habit Their Houses The Ceremonies of their Visits Their expence Their Domesticks The condition of Tradesmen Their Houses Merchants Patans Moguls Indosthanâ— Blotious No Inn in Guzuratta Their expertness at the Bow They have some of Aristotle's and Avicenna's Works Their Language The Diseases of the Country Winter begins in June The Commerce of Guzuratta The manner of making Indico Saltpeter Borax Assa foetida Opium The Drugs of Guzuratta Their precious Stones Their Weights Their Measures Their Money Much counterfeit money in the Indies The fertility of Guzuratta Their way of baking bread No Oats in the Indies Their seed-time and harvest The Mogul is really possessed of the whole Country The Gardens Trees Their Horses Their Beef and Mutton Their Fowl Fish Their Ships Their trading to the Red-sea To the Persian Gulf. To Achim The Commerce of the Malabares in Guzuratta The Commerce of the Portaguez IANVARY 1639. Mandelslo leaves Surat Comes to Daman The way from Goa to Visiapour Ditcauly Danda. The Mountain of Balagatta Herenekassi Berouly Werserée Outor Berapour Matoura Calingra Worry Attrowad Badaraly Kerwes Skeokory Rajebag Getteuy Graeen two Cities Baâ—â—ouwâ— Oâ—ren and Isselampour Taffet Cassegam Calliar Galoure Winge Qualampour Domo Tamba Werad The City of Dabul describ'd Rasapour Venesars a people of Decam The money of Decam The weights The King of Decam tributary to the Mogul The History of Chauas-Chan He 〈…〉 Regent of the Kingdom Engages the State 〈◊〉 war The King implores the assistance of his Grandees against him He attempts the life of his Prince But is prevented And kill'd His Friends would revenge his death Chauas's ingratitude towards his Benefactor The Mogul concerns himself in Mustafa's Fortunes The King of Decam able to raise 200000. men His Artillery Bacim Rasiapour Come to Goa The English President visits the Viceroy The Jesuits of Goa treat him A feast at the professed house of the Jesuits Another Feast at the Jesuits Colledge The Sepulchro of Francis Xavier The Hospital of Goa The Monastery of the Augustines The Viceroy's Presents to the President Mande â—lo leaâ—â—es Goa Goa described Goa hath no wâ—ll 〈…〉 The Portuguez of Goa prâ—uder then any other Winter begins in June The Diseases of those parts The Women go abroad The jealousie of the Portuguez The Portuguez Souldiers Their Marriages and Christnings Their Slaves The Inhabitants of the Country and their houses The Decanins excellent Gravers c. Their women delivered wiâ—hout pain They live in perfect health to 100. years of age The Jews of Goa Their money Customes upon Forreign Commodities The Viceroy of Goa Mandelsâ—c continues his Voyage Monteleone The Malabars Zamoriâ— Emperour of Calicutâ— and Cananor The priviledges of the Nayres The writing of the Malabars The order of succession in Calicuth Cochim described The power of the King of Cochim A great Priviledge of the Bramans The Zamorin of Calicuth was sometime Emperour of the Malabars An Engagement with the Malabar Pirates Pass in sight of Cochim The Cope of Comory The Isle of Ceylon The ancient Taprobane It s desâ—ription When discovered by the Portuguez The History of Fimala Derma King of Candy Derma murthers his Father and three Brothers Fimala declares against the Portuguez Gives Battle The second Battle given The treachery of a Portuguez Renegado The Hollanders ill treated in the Isle of Zeilon The Kingdom of Candy The Inhabitants The Women Victuals cheap Their Religion Kings tributary to the Portuguez Mines of Gold and Silver The Maldives The Coast of Coromandel The Inhabitants on the Coast of Coromandel are Christians A History of Saint Thomas Saint Thomas the Apostle martyr'd at Edessa The Town of Meliapour Orixa Masulipatam and Golcanda Bengala The Inhabitants Their superstition Pegu. Crocodiles in the Moat The Palace Royal. The Guard The Kings Forces He makes war upon his Vncle king of Auva A just execution but too sevâ—â—â— A single Combat betwixt two Kings The Idols The Peguans Arms. They are Pagans Adore the Devil Their Feasts How the Kings Corps are burnt The Church-men A strange Souce Other peculiar Customs The third part of all real Estates falls to the King Merchandizes of Pegu Siam Menam a River Overflows as Nile doth Siam very populous India Its houses The King of Siam of a very ancient Family Is absolute His manneâ— of life Hath but one Wife A magnificent Precession Procession upon the River The Revenue His Expences Their punishments Manners of Iustification The Militiâ— of Siam Their Armeâ— Both the Kings of Siam and Pegu pretend to Soveraignty The King of Siam friend to the Hollanderâ— Elephant hunting A white Elephant The occasion of the war between the Kings of Pegu and Siam Raja Hapi King of Siam The King a Pagan A Hierarchy Vow Chastity but may quit the priesthood Beguins Their belief Lights in the Mosqueys Prayers for the dead The Siamedes invoke the Devil Are well shâ—pâ—d Their qualities Their habits Their houses Their marriages Education of Children The Traffick of the City of India The King a Merchant The money of Siam Mâ—ney of Shels The settlement of the Hollanders at Siam The Pallace Royal. The Lords of Cambodia The Portuguezâ—â—cluded â—â—cluded the Hollanders Malacca When discovered Patana Description of Patana Its Inhabitants Swallows nests The Air of Patana Mahumetans Johor The soyl fertile Sumatra The Riches Contains many Kingdoms King of Achim The Town of Achim The Inhabitants Religion Their Victuals The mournful day-tree Cocoes Ships made of it as also Sails Cables c. How they make Wine Paper of this Tree Bananas Pepper Java Inhabitant The King of Bantam A
flaming Mount. Joartam Gerrici Surabaia Cidaye Taboan Cajam Japara Matram or Matavam Pati and Dauma Taggal Monucaon Jacattra Bantam The Kings Palace A Drum for a Clock The Guard of the town Market places Armourers Tuban The Javians Mahumetans Fasts Divers Wives Tourg â—â—â—riages Magistrate of Bantam The Kings Councel The train and state of the Nobility The qualities of the Javians Good Souldiers Javians Sophuticate their wâ—res How they imploy their Slaves Strongers commerâ—s there The trade of China Coin of Java The Portuguez Commerce Oysters of three hundred weight Crocodiles Civet Hens Rhinocerot Ants. Areca Mangas Ananas Samaca Tamarindâ— Tabaxir Boats of Canes Duriaons Lantor Cubebs Mangosthan Talasse Jaca Wild Cinnamon Carcapuli Costus Indicus Zerumbet Galanga Benjamin Sandale Ginger Anacardium Palo de cuebro Calamba Lacque Other Drugs in Java The Dutch fortifie in Jacatra Batavia Madura place of no trading Baly It s sâ—ituation 〈◊〉 Abounds in Rice Fowl Drugs Fish Gold Mines Pulo raza The Isle of Borneo Borneo the Town Bazar The Haven The Hollanders treat with the King of Sambas Celebes Islâ— Amboyna The inhabitants The discovery The Hollanders take Amboyna Castle Religion Consult with the Devil Superstitioâ—s Circumcision Marriage Oaths Sorcerers Their qualities Iâ—dotible Profaneness The Hollanders possess it intirely Banda Arms. They live long Nutmegs Maces The Oyl of Nutmeg The Hollanders Forts in Banda Prodigioâ—â— Serpents Molucques Sagu a sort of bread How they make bread of it Wine from the same Tree The Inhabitants Partly Mahumetans A particular policy The Clove â—ade The Portuguez seize it Dispossest by the Hollanders A difference between the Castilians and the Portuguez for the Moluccaes Grounded on a false supposition Magellan finds a new passage Ternate Gamma lamma Cloves The tree grows without planting Avicenna's errour What cloves the Moluccaes yields yearly The Mountain of Ternate But one season in the Moluccaes Cusos A Wood incombustible Leaves turn'd to Butterflyes Tidor Birds of Paradise King of Bachiam Machiam Philippins Manille Hunting of Crocodiles The Commerce of the Chineses and Spaniards in the Philippins The Archbishop of Manilla is Viceroy The City of Manilla It is doubted whether it be on Island or Continent The names and revenues of the Great Lords of Japan The Revenues of the Ministers of Stâ—te The Emperour of Japan's policy The Lords have three names Slaves dye with their Masters Their mannâ—r of ripping their bellies Their Mesquites The Cities of â—apan are not wall'd No Impositions in Japan The poweâ— of Masters over their Servants Gaming a Crime All the Relations of Offenders die with them A particular Punishment for Theâ—t The Crimes for which all the Kindred are put to death A horrid execution Lying punished with death The Emperours expence Jedo Castle The Palaces of the Kings The Emperours Retinue The Dayro The Emperours magnificence His Treasures The Emperour of Japan is a vice-roy Conâ—ines hiâ— Wife to a Castle How the Emperour of Japan came to thâ— Crown Ceremonies at the choic of a Nurse for the Dayro's son A revolution in Japan A Souldier of Fortune gets to be General of the Army And Soveraign Iâ— poyson'd Bestoâ— the Regency on one of the Lords Puts to death the Heir of the Cown The Emperour of Japan raises hâ—â— Armies upon the charge of h Subjects Can raise 368000. foot and 38800. horse Their Arms. Their Companies and Regiments The Council of State The expences of great Lords Provisions dear The 〈◊〉 of the 〈◊〉 in their buildings Three years requisite to 〈◊〉 an entrance for the Emperour The Emperour marries all the great Lords The women kept in restraint Women never talk of business The generosity of a â—aponnese Wife An example of modesty in a 〈◊〉 Another example of modestie The reservedness of their conversotien They are jealous Adultery severely punished Fornication permitted They have no Devotion Their Pagodes and Priests Distinguished into several Sects A cruel kind of death Their opinion concerning the Soul No disputes about Religion They haâ—e Christians Diabolical inventions to put Christians to death Their Houses They are civil No drinking houses in Japan Their Musick Their Wine Tsia how prepared Their Marriages Their education of their Children Go not to School till seven or eight years of age Not swath'd The Japonneses tender in point of honour An Example of it Are good Friends What Forraigners trade thither The occasion of the rupture between the Chineses and the Japonneses Japan was not peopled by Chineses No Custom paid in Japan No correspondence between the Emperour of Japan and other Princes Their Arithmetick The Dayâ—ro writes the History of the Country The Money of Japan Japan well stored with Cottel and Fowl Their Physicians The riches of Japan A particular way of meltiâ—g Iron The Roman Catholâ—â—â— Religion planted in Japan The Spaniards baâ—ished it The Dutch established there The Air of Japan Have many good qualities Are distinguished into five Orders The principal Ministers of Japan The Procession of the Dayro and Emperour The Dayro's baggage The Ladies of Honour 27. Lords of the Dayro's Retinue 24. Gentlemen The Dayro's three Wives The chief Servants of those Ladies 68. Gentlemen The Emperour and his Word The greatest Lords of Japan The Dayro's Concubines He Sacretary His Musick The Dayro The Issâ— of Tayovang The Dutch settle there And 〈◊〉 new Zealand Fermosa An Anarchy The places possessed by the Dutch The Inhabitants of Fermosa Are civil and good natured Are ingenious 〈◊〉 Their Wine Their women go afishing How the 〈…〉 Their huntâ—â—g The manner of their 〈◊〉 〈…〉 The Island of Tugin Their Magistracy It s Authority Their punishments The Magistrate hath no power They have a respect for old Age. The Age of the men in order to marriage Their marriages A pleasant married life The Women bear no children till 35. years of Age. Divorce lawful among them Their houses Their sustenance Have no Festivals Dogshair-stuffs Their Funerals They neither bury nor burn the dead A mad ramedy against painful diseases Their Religion Their Sins Their Gods Women only employed about their Mysteries Their devotion 〈◊〉 Quakerisin The Kingdom of China Its Frontiers It s extent The Provinces whereof it consists The 〈◊〉 The Province of Peking Its Frontiers Its Cities The number of its Families Its Revenues Xuntien described The Palace The Province of Xansi Its Frontiers Its Cities Families Revenue The qualities of the Country The Province of Xensi Its Frontiers The number of its Families Its Revenues Gold Mines Rhubarb Musk. The great Wall By whom built The Province of Xantung Its Frontiers Silks Its Cities and Families It s Revenue The Province of Honan Its Frontiers Its Cities and Families It s Revenui The Province of Suchuen Its Frontiers Its Cities and Families It s Revenue Radix Sina The Province of Huquang Its Frontiers Its Families It s Revenue The Province of Kiangsi Its Frontiers Its Cities and Families Its Revenues Porcelane made in Kiangsi The Province of Nanking Its
Frontiers Its Cities Its Families and Revenue The prodigious Revenue of one Provincâ— The Province of Chekiang Cities Families It s Revenue It s abundance in Silk The City of Quinsay Marc Paulo justified The greatness of the City of Hangckeâ— The Province of Fokien Its Frontiers Cities Families and Revenues The Inhabitants of Fokien trade most out of the Kingdom The Province of Quantung Its Frontiers Cities Families Revenue The richest Province of China The industry of the Inhabitants The Province of Quangsi Its Cities Frontiers Families and Revenue The Province of Queicheu Its Cities Revenue Frontiers The Province of Iunnan Its Frontier It s wealth Cities Families and Revenue There are both black and white Chineses The difference of Fruits in China The Chineses hate idleness China Fruits better then ours Wax and Honey Sugar Flesh very cheap Spice Their fishing How they breed Ducks How hatched The Inhabitants Their cloathing Their Women Are ingenious Their Money The provision for the subsistance of the poor Printing in China before we had it Their way of writing Their Paper The dignity of Loytia The Chineses very ceremonious Their Feast Plate Their new-years day The honour they do Embassadours Their weddings Polygamy lawful The Government of China Monarchical Offensive Warr become defensive by a Fundamental Law Their King called Son of Heaven The Crown hereditary The Councel of State Astrology requisue in Councellors of State Viceroys Governours Other Officers of Provinces Officers of the Crown 〈…〉 Debtors 〈◊〉 treated An admirable order Their Toâ—tures Prisons Their punishments That of Thieves The Visitors The Religion of the chineses Their Divinities 〈◊〉 China Saints The Fablâ— of Quanina The 〈◊〉 of Neoma The Chineses use incâ—ntations How they do it They invoke the Devil Their beliâ—f concerning the Creation They believe the Immortality of the Soul And Metempsychosis Their Religious men Vse Beads Funeral Ceremonies Their mourning The present State of China The Tartars possessed of China And forced thence The origine of the Royal house of Teyming The beginning of the Tartarian War Take the Metropolis of Leatung Vanlie dies and succeeded by Tayohang He by Thienki Whâ— forces â—way the Tartars But they re-enter Leaotung Take the Isle of Thaoyuen The Kings of China and Tartary dye The Chineses betray their Country Thienzung King of Tartary dies Lizungzo enters the Province of Xansi Takes the City of Peking A Chinese calls the Tartarâ—te his relief against the Rebels Lizungzo flies The Tartars will not go out of China And proclaioâ— their King Emperour of China Usanguei made King The Southerly Provinces chuse another Emperour A Son of Zungchini'â— The Tartars enter the Province of Nanking Hungquang strangled Several Chinese Lords retire to Haneheu Another Emperour Who is also strangled Another Prince in the Province of Chekiang Another in that of Fokien This division proves the ruine of China The Tartars reduce the Province of Fokien The treachery of a Chinese Pirat An Emperour chosen in Quangsi 1639 FEBRVARY The Voyage continued Several sorts of Birds And Fish Marsouiâ— Tuberones MARCH Very changeable weather near the Line Maurice Island described It s Haven And offords the best Ebony A prodigious Thornback * The Dutch have built a â—orâ— there 〈…〉 1640. No four-footed Beasts A French man lived 20. moneths in Maurice Island The Ship â—uts not into the Island APRIL Pintados a Bird discovâ—ring nearness to Land Mangas de valeudo a kind of Bird. The Cape of Agulhas Fish â—oreshewing the change of weather Trombas MAY. Cabo Falso They discover the Cape of Good hope The Cape of Good hopâ— Pinquins a kind of â—owl The Inhabitants about the Cape of Goodhope Their clâ—thing Their food Vse no husbandry Know neither God nor the Devil Lions their only enemies Hurricans IUNâ— IVLY They discover Madagascar Arive there What Commodities go off at Madagascâ—r The Lord of those parts Makes an alliance with the English AVGVST Madagascar described It s greatness It s Havens Dragons-bloud Aloes The Island rich in Cattle It s Inhabitams The men are courageous Their Arms. Their Chief Their Religion Mozambique When discovered by the Portuguez The fist landing of the Dutch 〈◊〉 Madagascâ—â— SEPTEMBER Declinatâ—â— of the Loadstone The Island of St. Elizabeth Sea-Wolves Badger OCTOBER St. Helen's Island Planted by the Portuguez Ascension Island St. Thomas Island Land Crevisses The Inhabitants Rolles-Island Carisco-Island November Capo Verde Its Inhabitants Their Arms The women do all the work The men drunkards Believe the immortality of the soul. D. â—urique discovers Guiny The scituâ—tion of Mina The Religion of the Inhabitants Their Superstitious Religious in their Oaths Their Clothing Their Arms. The settlement of the Dutch in Guiny Diego Can discovers the Kingdom of Congo The Kingdom of Congâ— â—s Provinces Bamba Songo Sunda Pango Batta Pamba The Air of the Country The River Zaire Sea-horses Gold Mines Serpents Cocos Their houses They are all Arâ—hitects and Physiâ—ions Their Clothing The wealth of the Country Their money The obsolute power of the King of Congo The Governour of Batta Minister of State Hâ— priviledges Their Armies and manner of fighting How Christian Religion was introduced there The Kingdom of Beny Cabo Verde described The Inhabitants of the Cabo Verde Are Pagans Their way of raising forces Their Nobility The state of the Country when first discovered The Green Island Sargasso Flamencos St. Jago The Voyageâ— continued The Aâ—â—ores Tercera Angra They 〈◊〉 good Fruit. Battatâ—s 〈◊〉 Potatoes Their Wheat will not keep Tercera Oâ—en very large Is 〈…〉 Earthquakes An Island started of â— sudden A Spring that petrifies wood A kind of wood hard as Iron Cedar St. Michaels Island St. Maries Island Gratiosa Island St. Georges Island Fayal Island Pico Island The Island de Flores The convenience of these Islands The Air very sharp in the Assores 1640. The â—anaries When discovered Lewis Count of Clermont conquers them A French Gentleman conquers them by commission from the King of Casteel 〈…〉 of Castile Great Canary Teneriffe Fierro Island A miraculous tree The Voyage continued DECEMBER The West-wind 〈◊〉 from the Azores to England Come into the Channel The Isle of Wight Dover 〈…〉 like to be cast away in the Haven Another tempest Canterbury Canterbury Come to London IANV S. Edmund Wright A strange attempt of a Duch marriner An example of a dreadful solitude A strange resolution of two Slaves MARCH I left London Mandelslo leaves London MAY.