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A51053	Travels and voyages into Africa, Asia, and America, the East and West-Indies, Syria, Jerusalem, and the Holy-land performed by Mr. John Mocquet ... : divided into six books, and enriched with sculptures / translated from the French by Nathaniel Pullen, Gent.; Voyages en Afrique, Asie, Indes Orientales & Occidentales. English	Mocquet, Jean, b. 1575.; Pullen, Nathaniel.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2310; ESTC R787	161,053	430

Thus was the Ship lost and all the Merchandise that was in her and afterward we arrived at Rochelle the 3d of Sept. from thence I came to Paris the 23 of the same Month when our young King Lewis XIII whom God preserve and prosper was gone to be Crowned at Rheims I had heard no News of the unhappy accident happened in the Person of King Henry the Great my good Master untill we were in sight of Lisbon for then according to the custom there came a Caravel from the Port to see and know who we were who told us that sad History which I could scarcely believe but coming to Land it was too much confirmed to my Eternal regret and sorrow THE TRAVELS AND VOYAGES OF John Mocquet INTO Syria and the Holy Land BOOK V. HAving return'd to Paris from so many long and troublesome Voyages after the Death of King Henry the Great whom I can never sufficiently lament and all other good French Men I had a desire to make a Religious Voyage into the Holy Land there to go pay like a good Christian so many Vows I had made to God for the innumerable Perils and Dangers from which it hath pleased him mercifully to preserve me so often In this Resolution I parted from Paris the 19th of July 1611. and took Coach to Marseilles where I arrived Embarkment at Marseilles the 14th Day of August and tarried there for some Days to wait for passage which at last I found in a Ship of Toulon called the St. Francis belonging to Ode Bergue and Vander Strate Merchants of Toulon and Marseilles There embarking the 8th of September we set sail and the 12th saw the Isle of Sardania which Sardania we left on the North-East and the 15th we saw the Coast of Barbary passing near the Isle of Guerite which Guerite Isle is a little Island not far from the main Land where the Robbers and Pyrates lurk as well Turks as Christians we had this Isle towards the South-West The 17th we passed along by Malta Malta then by Sicilia where we found a Sicilia Ship in the fashion of a Galiot who came directly towards us to know if they durst engage us but when they had perceived our Strength they tacked about taking their course towards Barbary seeking other Prey more easie to surprize The 21st we passed along by Candia Candia where there is a little Island called Agose Isle Agose which advances into the Sea with a Point towards the South Then the 27th we went to the Isle of Cyprus towards the City of Bafe Cyprus not far from the Coast and went to pass the Cape de Gate designing to go to Famagusta But having a sharp Gale and good for our Voyage we continued our course bearing towards Tripoly in Syria where we arriv'd Arrival at Tripoly the last Day of September the next Morning the 1s● of October I went on shore to lodge in the City in a Campo near the Juderie or Jews-Place Campo These Campo's are great Houses with large Courts and Fountains where Strangers retire themselves for shelter like Inns. These belong to some great Person who letts them out and he who is the Porter thereof whom they call Boabe receives the Money of the Passengers and gives it to the Master of whom he holds it upon Rent Having tarried some time at Tripoly Voyage to Mount Lebanon I had a mind to see Mount Lebanon and for this effect took a Turk with an Ass to carry our Victuals We left the City the 11th of November and went over very high Mountains and troublesome to pass and in the end arrived at the Lodging of a Chaldean Archbishop called Father George who received us after the best manner he could His House is right above Mount Lebanon his Church is under his Habitation and a Water-mill underneath his Church I saw a good Father a Chaldean Priest and Kinsman to this Archbishop who came from grinding his Corn as he shewed us by his Visage all white with Meal and seeing him in this case we knew him not to be of the Church until the next Morning which was Sunday when I saw him go with the Host in his Hand from thence to a Village there to sing Mass The Father George lived there with his Mother Sisters and Nieces making one and the same Family altogether He shewed me a Chapel above his House upon a little Rock right under Mount Lebanon and told methere was there a Hole out of which every Year upon the 1st Day of May only gushes an abundance of Water at such time as they sing Mass in the Chapel The Mountain is covered all over with Cyprus-Trees The Place is very agreeable but the Winter is there very troublesome because of the excessive Cold and great Snows which mightily afflicts these good Fathers so that they are constrained for that cause to pass the Winter near Tripoly and return there again in the Spring The next Morning after we had heard Mass we set forward towards the Place where the Cedars are about Cedars Three Leagues from thence where being come we had such a cold blast of Wind that my Turk blew his Fingers I order'd him to get upon a Cedar-Tree to break me off some Branches but he tarried there not long for the Cold soon made him to descend that he could not get me so much as I desir'd But I feared he would tumble down being half frozen and besides he had not eaten his Breakfast because of their Romadan Romadan or Fast in the which they fast till Evening not daring to eat any thing upon pain of Death except it be in private and those who observe not strictly their Law and when I saw him tremble in good earnest I presently made him come down fearing to lose him From thence we reassumed our way to return to Canibi which is a Place Canibi belonging to the Chaldean Patriarch and had very bad Weather of Rain so that we arrived there late in the Evening after having passed many little Habitations situate for the most part upon the side of inaccessible Rocks and are almost all Chaldean and Greek Christians with some few Moors amongst them We were there very well received and drank excellent Wine which grows in these Mountains The next Day having heard Mass we returned to Tripoli where I passed a very troublesome Winter because Inundations of the great Inundations of Water which came from the Mountains and so swelled a little River which runs through the middle of the City that it bore down part of the Houses with great loss of Merchandise and Water-mills which it carried quite away with the Stone-bridge This was the cause that Bread was there very scarce and dear that we had much adoe to get a little black Biscuit half spoiled which was sold me by weight and at what rate they pleased and that by halves and the People already

in Syria where they use a certain Vessel pierced with holes at the bottom and make their Tears run down from thence right upon the Sepulcher which is environed with all kind of Flowers I will add to this that all the Moors are nothing else but Captives Slaves Moors Slaves to their King of their King for they dare not so much as stir out of the Country and Kingdom without his express Licence and Command as I have taken notice of several times at Saffy I remember one day a young Man a Moor having by chance cast himself into a Boat of the Christians out of curiosity or to play and Fish the Haquin seeing him caused him to be taken by his Serjeants then to be laid upon the Ground and cruelly Bastinadoed Whilst I was at Saffy waiting for my departure I went about the Fields and Desarts to look for Plants and delicate Flowers to carry to the King I gathered a great many of them which I laid up and having caused Biscuit to be made for my Voyage with other Refreshments we set sail the 24th of Jan. 1607. and having contrary Winds Departure for France towards the South Line Having been driven from one side to the other we arrived in the end near the Coast of England in very tempestuous weather having been so beaten by contrary Winds we knew not well how far we had to any Land in regard that we were scarce able to take the heighth of the Sun or Stars But thereupon seeing a Ship coming much about the bigness of ours streight to us we lowred our Sails to tarry for her making signs for her to come up which they did telling us that the South Line was very near South-line us and what Wind was best for us to take We were very glad at this news and a little after we saw the South-Line but the Weather was very tempestuous and I believe that without this advice we should have gone near to have lost our selves on the Rocks which are low and in great numbers Being entered into the Channel we descried a Ship making full sail upon us and believing that it was a Fleming we prepared our selves to receive her but the night coming on which was very Stormy we lost her bearing more to the N.E. The next morning we saw the Isle of Wight imagining Wight-Island it was the Land of England But approaching nearer we sound out our mistake and Coasting it a little we perceiv'd the Land of England which lay to the N. E. of us and went to cast Anchor in a Bay which advanced into the Land and where there was a little Village Those of the place seeing us Anchor there came on board us and told us that when the Sea went out we should be a-ground and that it behoved us to set sail in all haste to go to a Port not far from thence so they helped and conducted us to the said Port near the * Ports-mout Poulle in a Creek not far from a Tower where we were at Harbour But the night being come we had the strangest and most horrible Storm that had been heard of of a long time insomuch that Horrible ●●mpest we were forced to cast 3 or 4 Anchors which were all little enough to hold our Ship This happened on Shrove-Tuesday the 27th of Feb. and in this Storm two Ships were lost near the Isle of Wight the one a Fleming who was lading and the other a French who seeing themselves near being lost put out the Boat to save themselves leaving nothing in the Ship save a Cat But these People approaching near Land a Wave came which o●erturned the Boat and they were all lost The Ship in the mean time went with a right Winds towards Plimouth a Town and Port of England Some People from the Coast seeing this Ship thus sail towards Land where there was no Port ran to give them notice thereof But calling out aloud and no Strange Accident one answering they knew not what to think judging they might be Pirates who had not a mind to be known In the end seeing the Ship like to be cast away they resolved to Board her and entering they found nothing but this Cat at which they were mightily astonished and took the Ship into Port It was laden with Corn and after having heard that the People were lost near the Isle of Wight they left it in the hands of the Justice until it might be restored to the right Owners This great Storm the cause of all these Accidents was such that it caused a great distraction and loss of People along the Coast of England as we heard since When we came to Portsmouth we found out the Truth of this and how the Sea had overwhelmed certain places a good way within Portsmouth which is a pleasant Sea Port Portsmouth Town After having been some days at Portsmouth to refresh our selves and to wait for a Wind to carry us to Havre-de-Grace where our Ship was to go to leave there some Merchandize of Barbary When the Wind was favourable to us we set sail the 16th of March and the nex● day in the evening we arrived at the Haven for which I praised God for having delivered me from so many Perils and Dangers and going by Land to Roan I there tarried for my Materials which were brought in the Hoy and having received and laded them in a Boat upon the River I went straight to Paris where I arrived the 25th of March From thence I went to Fontainebleau to give the King an account of my Voyage and to present him with the Plants and Rarities which Ihad brought with which his Majesty was mighty well pleased enquiring of me several things to which I answered him in the best manner I could And desiring to know further of me what it was that Muley-Zidan did I answered him that he had encamped in the Desarts with his Army and amongst other things I gave him account of 3 Cavalliers belonging to Muley-Boufairs his Brother with whom he had War the which being come into his Almahalle to render themselves to him he demanded of them if they came to him of their own Free-Will and having answered him they did and that they had quitted Muley-Boufairs because they had been falsly accused of a Robbery in the Juderie at Morocco Zidan hearing this asked them if they took him for a Receiver of Robbers and thereupon commanded them to be Beheaded shewing thereby a great Act of Justice for a Barbarian and Mahometan Having finished this Discourse and several others to the late King and presented him with the Plants and Rarities and the White Honey of Africa exceeding clear and excellent of which his Majesty tasted and caused me to lay it carefully up I went back to Paris to think in good earnest of the Voyage that I had a mind to make to the East-Indies A Description of the following Cutts The First The manner

some Beads with which they decked their Bodies and in their Ears they had long pieces of Wood and round Stones They had brought a thousand Trifles as Gumbs Egrets Feathers and Parrots Tobacco and other Things which the Country afforded I did my Duty in Exchanging and took as much of their Merchandize as I possibly could We made our Bargains without speaking Merchandize of the Country shewing by signs what we would have or give The King of this Country of Yapoco named Anacajoury was then making ready Cannoe's to go against the Caribes This was the cause that we could not then make much Bartering in th●s place For they were all busie at work some at the Cannoes others to make Arms for their Visage and others to prepare Victuals which was the Women's Province we saw all those People mighty busie at that Wine of the Country Amongst others they made a certain Wine or Drink of Fruits which inebritates like Beer or Citre They chaw a certain Root then Boil it and after Strain it There is another sort of it more thick which is made of Fruits and Palms as big as a Gall-Nut they bruise only the Bark which is upon them it 's as yellow as an Orange for they make nothing of the Nut after that they Boil and Strain it They have another sort which might be taken for clear Milk mixed with soft Cheese I had a great mind to Taste of it besides being desired by them to Drink I would not refuse for fear they should have thought that I intended 'em any harm insomuch that they were mightily pleased to see me Drink of it They do not love Melancholly and green Persons and if you make sport with them in Jest it must be Nature and Manners of those Indians in Laughing I clapped them sometimes upon the Back with my Hand in Jest but they would always return again the like in Laughing They are very hardy and warlike courteous and liberal and have very cheerful Looks The Caribes are not so for they would give us as the saying is not so much as a * Patato Patatte This is a Root like a Turnip but longer and of a red and yellow colour It is of a very good taste and they Eat it boiled or roasted upon the Coals but if it is often Eat of it is very Disrellishing and Windy As for Fruits they have several Fruits sorts of 'em good to Eat but wild and unknown to us except the Ananana's or Figs which are very long and as big as a great Pudding They have Plantanes or Fig-Trees which the Spaniards call Plantins They make small thin Cakes of Casav● which is a Root that they Grate upon a Stone or a piece of Wood made in the form of a File not having any Mortar to bruise it in Then they put 〈◊〉 it into a great Basket made of little Twigs like Willows These Roots also yield a juice which is poisonous After having well pressed it dried it and sop'd it in Water they make it 〈◊〉 into a Paste spread it upon a great flat Stone that is upon the Fire which gives it the form of a very thin Cake When it is done so it may be kept three or four years or more so it be laid in a dry place I tasted of it but it did not relish as our Bread and I believe that one would soon be weary of Eating it often They make several other sorts of things to Eat but very course and grosly which is not very pleasant to those who are not accustomed vvith them I saw them make their preparations in the Lodgings of their King Anacajoury to Victual the Cannoes which were to go to the War but they put all these Casaves or Cakes which I spoke of into a Pile in the middle of the House and their Drink in Gourd Bottles which hold more than a Pail For these Gourd Bottles are of a wonderful greatness in comparison to ours I saw at the House of this King a Caribe-Slave whom they made to work to get ready these Victuals for the War This little Naval Army was about 35 Cannoes with 25 or 30 men in each But to return again to our arrival in this place of Yapaco as soon as we King Anacajoury were entered into this Country the King Anacajoury gave us two of his Nephews in Hostage if by chance any of ours should there loose himself or his way The Grandchild of this King led me about the Woods for all the Coast is covered with Trees and there was some Indians with him This little Boy was very brisk and mighty witty for a Savage and shewed me the Fruits which Mancenille Fru●t were good to Eat and which not Amongst others they have a Fruit called Mancenille of the bigness of an Orange very yellow and beautiful to look upon but yet so venomous that they say if it is put never so little to the Mouth it kills immediately and the Fish themselves which are all along the Coast who suck this Fruit are carried by the Sea to Land for the Tree which bears it is near to Sea which comes up into these Woods and drags along with it a thousand sorts of Fruits as we saw in the River of the Amazons The Fish who suck this Fruit peel and loose their Scales Whosoever Eats of this Fish loose all their Epiderme or Upper-Skin like the Lepers who Eat the Flesh of Vipers As soon as any one finds himself seiz'd with such an accident they presently conjecture they have Eat of the Poison of Mancen●lle as the Spaniards have named it who inhabit these Indies This King's Grand-Child shewed me several Herbs which they make use of and one amongst others which Antidote against Poison serves them for an Antidote when they are struck with Poisoned Arrows I took some of the Leaves of this Herb to compound an Unguent which is an excellent remedy for Wounds and other Sores I would also have plucked up some of the Root but this little Boy would not suffer it And besides the Indians who were with him seemed to be very angry he had shewed me this Plant which they prised and esteemed above all others I would not insist any more thereupon for fear his Grand-Father should be displeased with me After I had gathered a great quantity of Plants Fruits and other Rarities I returned on board the Ship to lock them up On Tuesday the 11th of April I went to their Habitations to see if I could get any more Curiosities taking some Knives and other Pedlars-Ware to exchange with them Our Pilo● being with me we went into a Cabin where there were a great number of Indians Men and Women and there were amongst the rest some about 17 or 18 years of Age pounding in a Mortar made of a hollow piece of Wood with a long Stick I also took a Stick to help her to Pound of which she was very

2 or 3 Leagues from thence The next day the 2d of October we went to lie at Saffy and as we approached there passing through some Woods of Broom very high there was two Moorish Cavalliers who took me out of the right way making me go with them cross these Brooms which were so high that one could scarce see another in the middle of them I was upon my Mule and coming near to an old Well they got down bidding me also to do the like I thought there had been there some Fountain to refresh our selves but seeing that they had a mind to make me get down only to entice me into this Well I immediately ●a●ger of the Author turned my Mule about towards the great Highway with all the speed I possibly could and thus narrowly escaped from their Hands Their design was as I believe to make me quit the Gold and Silver which I carried and then to cut my Throat and to cast me in some Ditch But I had a good Inspiration when I was just upon the point of descending and as my good Angel would have it the great Road through which the Caravan passed was not far from thence which did facilitate my safety My too much Diligence and the great desire that I had to advance to get to Saffy the first had been the cause of this Accident At last by the Grace of God I arrived happily at Saffy After having a little refreshed my self I took care for my Embarkment and caused my Materials to be visited by the Talbes and payed them their due The next day when I thought to Embark causing my things to be carried to the Port the Talbes came and demanded of me the Letter and Passport from the Haquin of Morocco and having given it them they told me it signified nothing to the purpose because Muley-Boufairs was no longer King of Morocco and that it behoved me to have another from Muley-Abdalla Muley Abdalla King of Morocco who was then King of Morocco under his Father Muley-Chec who was at Fez I was very much afflicted at this Retardment which made me loose the convenience of a Ship that was bound for France Nevertheless being forced to have patience it behoved me to send a Trotier or Messenger to Morocco with our Letter to have another which could not be done without a great deal of Trouble and Expences But my ill fortune was that this Letter being come I must be forced to wait there near 2 months upon the account of a Dutch Ship which was not to set sail till January 1607. This change of Affairs at Morocco happened after my departure from the Revolutions at Morocco City For Muley-Boufairs King of Morocco having lost the Battle against his Nephew Abdalla fled away into the Mountains where he was Robb'd as I have said and Abdalla was then in peaceable possession of Morocco But during the Peace Abdalla having discovered that the other hatched some Treason to dispossess him he Stabb'd him with his own Hands after having reproached him with his Perfidie But after that Zidan his Uncle with the help of a Santon or Marabou hath chased away Abdalla and made himself King of Morocco Afterwards he himself was chased away by the Santon and it was said that they were ready to engage in Battle together and since I have heard that the Santon had been taken by Ziden who had put him to Death by Sawing him down through the middle with two pieces of Wood Since that he and his Nephew Abdalla had agreed together and by the Agreement the Kingdoms of Fez and Sus fell to Abdalla and that of Morocco to Zidan As for the Marabous or Santons they Santons dangerous are very dangerous amongst these People by reason that the pretext of Devotion and Sanctity of their Law as in all others is a great means to Commotions against the State as it is often seen and of fresh memory in him who within this 100 years hath founded this last Family which does Rule there at this day As for Muley-Chec who was at Morocco he went into Spain out of a desire to become Christian and indeed he delivered the strong place of Arache into the hands of the King of Spain who for this gave him a Pension and promised to restore him with an Army to the Kingdoms of Fez and Morocco But those of Fez would not hearken to that not agreeing with the Spaniards And Abdalla his Son returned to Fez who also hindered him insomuch that the Chec has been since constrain'd to go back again of his own accord without gaining any thing of the Spaniards save the loss of putting such a place into their Hands But to return to the Abode that I was Sassy and its Description forced to make at Sassy I employed my self in the mean time in viewing this City and the Parts there abouts 'T is a little City situated upon the brink of the Sea which has no convenient Haven but only a Road and flat Shore and has formerly been possessed by the Portugals It may be as big as Cor●eil and very well Walled being in habited by all ●o●ts of People as Jews Moors and Christians and hath a Douane Doing there I observed amongst other thing● the manner of their Marriages which are performed with this Ceremony Manner of the Marriages They put the Bride upon a Mule well furnished and surrounded with a Hoop like a Cage covered with a Carpet after the Turkish manner Scarcely can any see this Woman thus shut up but she can see the whole company through a transparent Vail At the top of this is a Scarf They walk her in this Equipage round about the City and cause to follow after several Mules laden with Baggage of that which the Bride has given her in Marriage Then follow the Men and Women mounted also upon Mules Both the Men and Women make a strange and ridiculous noise as they pass along with their Mouths and Tongues Amongst these are double Drums A-la-Moresque After having finished this walk they go to Dinner then they return to the place And if it is the Wife of a Cavallier or Man of War all his Friends assemble there on Horseback who exercise themselves at justing continuing 2 or 3 hours before the Bride then after that every one withdraws As for the rest if the Husband does not find his Wife a Maid he Divorces her and sends her back with all that she brought and for this they cause the Drawers of the Bride to be carried about the City all stained in Blood to testifie that she was a Virgin The Jews cry and observe the same thing As for what concerns the Dead they have Burying-Places and Sepulchers where they go to Weep and Lament Burials upon the Graves of their departed Friends especially the Women who fail not to go there every Friday and the days of their Festivals The Jews do the same as I have observed

these Gentiles are content when they find occasion to do good to poor Travellers they being all very pious People who endure all sorts of Ignominy and Injuries such Lovers are they of Peace and Tranquillity This Goodness and natural Humanity of these poor Idolaters abused in so many other things is an excellent Lesson for Christians instructed in the True Religion which they make so little account of since the Natural Light of these blind Infidels shames the Super-natural Gifts of those who profess Christianity After I had gathered together and bought all the Drugs and other Things which might be of any use to me I began to think of my return with my Truchman and Mariners and going along the Coast which was very green pleasant and abounding in all sorts of Plants When I saw any Herb which pleased me I commanded them to fetch it The Portugals put a thousand Affronts upon these poor People and sometimes they make shew as if they would kill some Bird or other Animal Indians kill not Animals which these Gentiles have pity on and presently buy them to set them at liberty Yet since they have found out that the Portugals do this on purpose to have their Money knowing their bad Intention they buy not these Animals as they were wont to do When a Portugal has a mind to have Rude Comportment of the Portugals towards the Indies some new Cloths he makes no more ado but goes to the Shop of an Indian with a Tailor and there chooses his Stuff then orders it to be cut out in his presence and when it comes to be paid he bids the poor Gentile follow him to his Lodging to take his Money where being come he pretends that his Companion who has the Key of his Chest is not there and so the other whatever he can say or do can have nothing of him but this excuse And 2 or 3 days after the Portugal tells him he owes him nothing They use the same Tricks to all other Merchants and Tradesmen They have done as much to me when I have paid any thing for them for some time after they made as if they knew me not Yet it ought not to be thought strange if they do thus in the Indies since they play the same Pranks in Lisbon it self where one of my Hosts told me that one day having Dressed up a Hat for a Castilian and asking him for his Mony shewed him a Pistol cockt telling him if he had a mind to be paid he must follow him into Flanders where he was going and this was all he could get As soon as they arrive at the Indies Nature and Quality of the Portugals in the Indians they make themselves Gallants calling themselves Fidalgues or Gentlemen tho they be but Peasants and Tradesmen They themselves relate That a certain one among them named Fernando who had kept Hogs in Portugal coming to the Indies and adding 3 Letters to his Name caused himself to be called Don Fernando and was in a little time so well known and esteemed amongst the Women Metices that one having chosen him for her Servant she caused him to Ride about with a Chain of Gold about his Neck and a great many Slaves after him But one day it happened that his Master's Son whom he had served in his own Country for a Swine-heard Portugal Pride having met him in this Rich Equipage riding about the Streets of Goa saluted him saying in his own Language Deos Guarde de Fernando Como Esta which is to say God save ye Fernando how goes it But the other making shew as if he knew him not ask'd who he was to which the other made answer Was not he the same who formerly kept Hogs for my Father This Gallant hearing this drawing him aside told him he was and was here called Don and was looked upon as a great Gentleman praying him to hold his peace and gave him Money yet this hindered not his being known by several who made their own profit thereof But since I am fallen upon this Discourse I will add that when these Portugal Soldiers first arrive at the Indies wearing their Country Cloths those who have been there a long time before when they see them walk about the Streets call them Reipol laden with Lice with a thousand other Jeers and Affronts When I was there these Newcomers durst not stir out of their Lodgings until they were dress'd like the other Indians And then they know them no longer using Majestick Gravity and observing the Sossiego after the Spanish manner always having their Boy who carries their Parasol or Cloak without which they dare not come out of their Lodging except they have a mind to be esteem'd Picaro's or poor miserable Wretches as in truth they are to those who know them As long as they are there instead of vile and base as they be they esteem themselves all Fidalques and Noblemen changing their more obscure Names to more Illustrious I knew one who Enrolled himself for the War and he changed his Name 3 or 4 times as 't was found out by the Secretaries and Registers of Goa When they hear of any one that knows them they are so wicked as to send to ask whether he knew such a one or not and who he was of what Cast or Race and if noble and honourable so that if the other answers that he is some Picaron or miserable Fellow this Friend reports it to the other and then for meer Spite complots with his Associates against him who has told this Truth and meeting him in the City at their advantage give him so many Blows that they kill him or leave him for Dead This is the cause that one must take care how he tells the Truth of such who are enquired after But on the contrary if they tell all the glorious Things in the world of him of his Nobility Valour Power and other Qualities tho' never so false Then he of whom all this is meant coming to meet the other immediately salutes him Embraces his Thigh and prays him always to say the same of him and that he is wholly at his Service ready to reward him with his Life and Fortune When they have a mind to d'Accouchillar or Slash any one with their Revenge of the Portugals Swords they send Notes to their Friends to desire their assistance against one who has offended them If he to whom this Note is sent does not come and excuses himself because such an one is his Friend they cry him about for a faint-hearted Coward and 't is he on whom they will wrack their Revenge if he has not a care of himself These are the Actions at this day One day standing at my Lodging Door in the Street of the Crucifix I saw two Companies of Soldiers the one coming from the Misericordia and the other seeming from the Cordeliers and drawing nigh one to the other laid hands upon their Swords

could catch about the Fields the strongest Killing and Massacring their Companions to have a share of them insomuch that they went to hunt after Men as some Savage Beasts and made Parties and Assemblies for this end During this horrible Famine the People of the Kingdoms round about being advertised of this extream necessity equipped a quantity of Vessels laden with Rice and other Victuals which they brought to Pegu and sold it there for what they pleased Amongst the rest there was a Merchant of Goa who arriving there with a Boat laden with Rice as he went Sad History of a Peguan Damsel from House to House to put off his Merchandize taking for payment Money Slaves or other things they could give him He happened upon a House where they had not wherewithall to Buy so much as a Measure of Rice and yet ready to Die with Rage and Hunger but they shewed this Merchant an exceeding Beautiful Woman whom her Brethren and Sisters had a mind to sell for a Slave for certain Measures of Rice the Merchant offered 2 Measures or Bushels and they would have 3 Remonstrating that if they killed this Girl the Flesh would last them and nourish them much longer than his Rice At last when they could not agree the Merchant went his way but no sooner was he gone than they killed this young Woman and cut her to pieces But the Merchant being not a little enamoured with this Maid and besides having Compassion of her mightily desired to save her life soon returned again to give them for her what they demanded But he was mightily astonished and sorry when they shewed him the young Woman in pieces telling him that not thinking he would return they did it to satisfie Hunger Such was the end of this Peguan Damsel and many others had the same Fate This Merchant-related this Tragedy to one of my Friends who passed from Portugal to the East-Indies in the Galion of Good-Jesus Now to return to those of Siam the cause why the King of Siam so barbarously uses the Portugals is that they Cru●lties of the Portugals use the same Treatment towards his Captive Subjects I have seen one of them at Goa above 90 years of Age a Joyner by Trade and Slave to a Portugal Gentleman to whom this poor Man was forced to render every day to the value of two Tangues whether he wrought or no and went thus to seek work about the City with his Tools My Host having one day called him to make something for him he told me all the Cruelties which was used against him For when he failed to pay his two Tangues his Master tied him like a Beast to a Stair-Case and gave him so many Blows with a Stick that he left him bruised and maimed and told me that he had been a Slave for above 40 years and had gained his Master good Money and yet he gave him to live upon but a measure of Rice raw every day without any other thing as they do to all the other Indians and sometimes two Baseruques which are some two Deniers to have some Caril to put Miseries of the Slaves amongst the Rice Thus you may see how these Slaves live witho●● either Bread or any other Meat but 〈◊〉 boiled in Water insomuch that several die with Hunger and Work They lie upon the Ground on little Esteres or Matts made of Bull-rushes or the Bark of Trees The Portugals acquire much Reputation of making good Christians for having caused them to be Baptized they thus make them Die miserably Also the Japans knowing their Letchery and insatiable Avarice seem to have had some reason for their rising against them For these who are a subtile and wary People seeing that the design of the Portugals after having made them Christians was to dispossess them of their Lands and Goods by all Inventions therefore they did not care for their Amity much less did they desire 'em to Domination of the Portugals what Govern and this perhaps was one of the causes that they have Martyred so many Jesuits who were utterly innocent of all this For these Japans are mightily Jealous of their Wives and the Japans jealous Portugals had no other aim but to gain them especially those of the greatest with whom afterwards they do what they please which was the reason that moved these People to so much Cruelty I have found out in the Indies that the Whoredoms Ambition Avarice and Greediness of the Portugals has been one of the chiefest causes why the Indians become not Christians so easily This is the Reason why the People of the Portugal Churches who are in those parts mightily desire some French Dutch or Scots to be with them because these People lead a life less impure and scandalous which is the thing that most chiefly maintains and upholds Religion in that part of the World I Religion how and by what maintained have there known a Father Jesuit of the Country of Artois who lived in Salsete which is a little Isle not far from the main Land depending upon Goa he was there as Curate in a great Parrish and understood very well the Indian Tongue But afterward the Jesuites took him from thence to send him to Chaoul and I then saw the poor People of his Parish who mightily lamented that they had lost him some saying that they had rather have had their Arms cut off than have seen him taken away from them For they feared to have some Portugal who would Tyranize over them Thus ye may see what honest Men can do amongst the very Infidels who know how to discern the good from the bad As for the Father Jesuits they pass as far as China to make there some fruit Jesuits in China and fit their beards and hair after the Chinese manner and have their Cloaths made after the same fashion and Learn the Language to Accommodate themselves the more easily thereto but they dare not Preach the Gospel there but in private for fear of being put to Death I have been told at Goa that they have Converted great Numbers of them yea the very Mandarins themselves and Governors of Provinces They have a Church and Colledge at Macao an Isle and City of China and there they Learn the Chinese Language This is about 45 Leagues from Canton one of the greatest Cities in all China Canton a great City where they go through a great River much bigger than the Sene at Roar and is joyned with the Sea At the Port of Canton are continually above three or four thousand very large Boats and there a great Number of Birds of the River retire themselves 〈◊〉 which they leave in the Morning to go into the fields to seek their Living some on one side and some on the other then when the Night comes the Chinese sound a little horn which is heard at a great distance and then these Ducks return every one to his Boat where