the rotten Flesh must every day be cut off from about the Teeth which easily drop out if Remedies be not used This corruption gets also into the Legs and Thighs which swell and become livid A Remedy for the Land-Evil There is no curing of those that are ill of it but by putting them on Shore and giving them wholesome Food Some Chyrurgeons bury them up to the neck in Sand for several days others bath them in fresh water and many times these Remedies have succeeded The Chevalier de Fourbin is sent to the Governor of Bantam Before we came to an Anchor in the Road of Bantam the Chevalier de Fourbin was by Orders from the Ambassador gone to the Town to pay a visit to the Governor but he had no sooner passed a little Island behind which we lay at Anchor than he saw the Frigat also at Anchor on the other side of that Island within three Leagues of Bantam He found the Maligne and reâ—urned on Board with the Lieutenant of the Frigat and steered streight towards her Those who were on Board the Maligne were overjoyed at his coming they being more concerned for us than we were for them because the Oseau being a far better Sailer than their Frigat they thought we had been already a great way beyond Bantam But they having met with fairer winds than we did in the course they had steered they had been already four or five days in the Road and heard no news of us The Chevalier de Fourbin was informed of Monsieur de Joyeux Captain of the Maligne and of Monsieur de Tertre his Lieutenant The bad reception those of the Maligne met before our Arrival at Bantam in what manner the Governor of Bantam received their Complement They told him that they could not have Audience of the King tho they had long waited for it and were put in hopes by the Dutch of obtaining it that they could not so much as speak to the Governor of their Nation whom they have setled there nor have leave to buy fresh Provisions The Lieutenant of the Fort made known to Mr. de Tertre in the name of the King of Bantam and of the Governor who was sick that the Kings Affairs did not permit his Majesty to suffer Strangers to come ashore that his Throne was not yet well fixed that his People repining at the present Government longed for some Change that they were ready every minute to rise upon the first appearance of any Succours which they were made to expect from England and that so the French ought not to take it ill that that Prince was upon his Guard and that the Dutch who were only concerned as his Allies and Friends and who served only as Auxiliary Forces should receive and obey his Orders The French Officer being netled at that answer and thinking that he saw to the bottom of such an uncivil procedure replyed that it would be thought very strange that the Dutch who in Europe make profession of keeping and entertaining Peace and good Intelligence so carefully with the French would not grant them in the Indies that which is not refused but to declared Enemies that certainly the King his Master would tâ—ke it extremely ill that they should use his Ships so and that in short it was well enough known that they could do any thing at Bantam that the King of whose Authority they made a pretext to cloak their refusal was wholly at their disposal nay and guarded by their Soldiers too To these words the Dutch Lieutenant made answer that it would be in vain for him to endeavour to remove out of Mr. de Tertre's mind the disadvantagious suspicions wherewith he saw him prejudiced against those of his Nation that the French would be undeceived if they would go to Batavia where the Dutch were the Masters and where they would be made sensible of the respect those people had for the King and of their esteem for the French Nation It was to no purpose for Monsieur de Tertre to complain for that was all the answer he had so was obliged to return on Board again Mutual Presents of the Governor of Bantam and the Captain of the Frigat Next day the Governor of Bantam sent to Monsieur de Joyeux a great deal of fresh Provisions of the Fowl Herbs and fruits of the Country and Monsieur de Joyeux returned the Civility by a Present which he made him of many Curiosities of France Some days after a Pangran came on Board of the Frigat that is the name they give to the Lords of Court attended by four Halbadiers of the Natives He bid his Interpreter tell the Captain that he came from the King his Master to tell the French that that Prince was surprised to see them still at Anchor in his Road that they should weigh with all expedition and be gone from his Ports and Lands Monsieur de Joyeux answered very fiercely and bid them tell the Pangran that he knew not what it was to obey any but the King of France his Master and that his answer to the King of Bantam was that he would not be gone till he thought fit and that they durst not send a Ship to fight him as they had threatned With that the King of Bantams Envoy withdrew without any other complement It was easily believed that the Dutch Officers who were in the Fort The Governors Suspition of the French. made all those Engines play and that they used the Kings Authority to drive the French away from the Town For the Governor not knowing the reasons which had obliged the King to send two Men of War into the Indies could not think that it was only to carry an Ambassador to the King of Siam as he was told On the contrary the more pains was taken to convince him of it the more ground he imagined he had to suspect that they were part of the Squadron which the Kings of England and France sent to be revenged of the Insolencies that both Nations had lately suffered when the Dutch raised the Siege of Bantam The Rumor that was spread abroad amongst the Islanders that for a long time they had been Arming in England upon that design encreased his suspicions and he was easily perswaded that that Ship at Anchor and another bigger which was seen off in the Streight of the Sound would soon be followed by the whole Fleet. To all this it is to be added that the Javaners were furiously incensed to see the young Prince upon the Throne the Dutch Masters of Bantam The Javaners are mad to see Sultan Agoum their old King in Prison and their old King kept close Prisoner It did indeed surprise us to hear these people speak with so much liberty threatning to put the Dutch to the Sword and Dethrone the King Regnant if they had Forces to assist them This news made the Chevalieur de Fourbin resolve to put back again
of Europe At the sides of it there are several others less but of Gold also and inriched with precious Stones However this is not the best built Temple of Siam It is true there are none that have any Figures of so great value but there are several that have greater proportion and Beauty and one amongst others which I must here give a description of About an hundred paces South of the Palace there is a great Park walled in A description of one of the fairest Temples of Siam in the middle whereof stands a vast and high Fabric built cross-ways in the manner of our Churches having over it five solid gilt domes of Stone or Brick and of extraordinary Architecture the dome in the middle is far bigger than the rest which are on the extremities and at the ends of the Cross This Building rests upon several Bases or Pedistals which are raised one over another tapering and growing narrower towards the top The way up to it on the four sides is only by narrow and steep Stairs of betwixt thirty and forty steps three hands broad apiece and all covered with gilt Calin or Tin like the Roof The bottom of the great Stair-case is adorned on both sides with above twenty Statues bigger than the Life some whereof are of Brass and the rest of Calin and all gilt but representing but sorrily the Persons and Animals for whom they have been made This great Pile of Building is encompassed with forty four great Piramides of different form and well wrought ranked orderly upon different Plat-forms On the lowest Plat-form stand the four greatest at the four corners of it upon large bases These Piramides end at the top in a long very slender Cone extreamly well gilt and supporting a Needle or Arrow of Iron that pierces through several Christal balls of an unequal bigness The body of those great Piramides as well as of the rest is of a kind of Architecture that comes pretty near ours but it has too much Sculpture upon it and wanting both the simplicity and proportions of ours it comes short of its beauty at least in the eyes of those that are not accustomed to it If we have time we may give a more perfect Idea of that Architecture upon the second Plat-form which is a little above the first there are six and thirty other Piramides some what less than the former making a square round the Pagod nine on each side They are of two different Figures some taper into a point as the former did and the rest are made round like a Bell on the top after the manner of the domes which crown the Building they are so mingled that there are not two together of the same form Over these in the third Plat-form are other four Piramides on the four corners of it which terminate in a point They are less indeed than the first but bigger than the second All the Fabrick and Piramides are inclosed in a kind of square Cloyster above sixscore common paces in length about an hundred in breadth and fifteen foot high All the Galleries of the Cloyster are open towards the Pagod the Cieling thereof is not ugly for it is all painted and gilt after the Moresko way Within the Galleries along the out Wall which is all close ranges along Pedestal breast high on which stand above four hundred Statues rarely well gilt and placed in most excellent order Though they be only of Brick gilt yet they appear to be very well shaped but they are so like one another that if they were not unequal in bigness one would think that they had been all cast in the same Mould Amongst these Figures we reckoned twelve of a Gigantick Stature one in the middle of each Gallery and two at each Angle These Figures because of their height are sitting upon flat bases cross-leg'd after the manner of the Country and of all the Orientals We had the curiosity to measure one of their legs which from the Toes to the Knee was full six foot long the Thumb of it was as big as an ordinary Arm and the rest of the Body proportionably big and tall Besides these which are of the first magnitude there are about an hundred others that are as it were Demi-Giants having the Leg from the extremity of the Foot to the Knee four foot long In short between the first and second we reckoned above three hundred of which none are less than the life and these stand upright I mention not a great many other little Pagods no bigger than Puppets which are mingled among the rest We never saw a Fabrick no not in France where Symmetry is better observed either for the body of the Building or the Ornaments about it than in this Pagod The Cloister of it is flancked on the outside on each hand with sixteen great solid Piramids rounded at the top in form of a Dome above fourty foot high and above twelve foot square placed in a Line like a row of great Pillars in the middle whereof there are larger niches filled with gilt Pagods We were so long taken up with the sight of these things that we had not time to consider several other Temples close by the Post within the same compass of Walls They judge of the Nobility of Families at Siam by the number of roofs that cover their Houses This hath five one over another and the Kings Apartment hath seven Some days after we were arrived at Siam there were two solemn Services performed in the Church which we have in the field of the Portuguese the one for the late Queen of Portugal and the other for the late King Don Alphonso Father Suarez a Dominican Frier made the Funeral Sermons After that the Festivals of the Coronation of Don Pedro King of Portugal who reigns at present was celebrated in the Church of the Dominicans where one of their Fathers Preached The Lord Constance was at the charges of the Obsequies and Festivals He would also have had a solemn Service performed for the late King of England if he had had certain intelligence that he died a Catholic He only expressed his Joy at the Coronation of the Duke of York by Illuminations and Fire-works which for their Novelties pleased the French very much There were long Horns out of which were streams of Fire that spouted up to a height like Water-works and lasted a long while these Festivals were accompanied with great Feasting to which the chief of all the Nations of Europe to wit the French English Portuguese and Dutch were invited Rejoycings performed at Siam for the Coronation of the Kings of England and Portugal My Lord Ambassador could not excuse himself from being present at two Feasts which were made for the Coronation of the Kings of England and Portugal We were obliged to be there too the Lord Constance having come and taken us with him in his own Balon The healths of all the Kings and Royal Families were
the good of Religion and the Conversion of the King of Siam by the Embassie which he resolved to send to him pitched upon the Chevalier de Thaumont for so glorious an employment being perswaded that the good examples which he would give in that Country would be so many proofs of the sanctity of Christianity that might fully convince that King of the truth of our Religion The King sends the Jesuits Patents of Mathematicians Next day after he came we had the honour to salute him in his Lodgings and received from his hands the Patents which it pleased the King to give every one of us in particular sending us in quality of his Mathematicians into the Indies and China They were Signed and Sealed with the Great Seal of yellow Wax and conceived in these terms LOUIS by the Grace of God King of France and Navarre To all who shall see these present Letters Greeting Being very willing to contribute on Our part to any thing that may more and more establish the security of Navigation and improve Arts and Sciences We have thought that for the surer attaining to that it was necessary to send to the Indies and China some knowing and Learned Persons capable of making there the Observations of Europe and Judging that for that effect we could not make a better choice than of F. N. a Jesuit by the particular knowledg we have of his extraordinary capacity For these and other causes thereto moving Vs of Our special Grace full power and Royal Authority We have Ordained and Constituted and by these Presents Signed with Our Hand do Ordain and constitute the said F.N. our Mathematician Our Will is that in that quality he go to the Indies and China there to make all Observations necessary for the improvement and curiosity of Arts and Sciences the exactness of Geography and the surer establishment of Navigation We therefore Charge and Command Our most dearly beloved Son the Count of Thoulouse Admiral of France our Vice-admirals and Lieutenant-Generals in our Naval Forces Commanders of Squadrons of the same particular Governors of our Towns and strong Places Maiors Consuls and all our other Officers to whom it belongs to give to the said F. N. all the Aid Favour and assistance that is needful to him for the execution of these Presents without permitting any Lett or Hindrance to be given him that may retard his Voyage for such is Our Will and Pleasure In Witness whereof We have caused Our Seal to be put to these Presents We Pray and Require all Kings Princes Potentates States Republicks our Friends Allies and Confederates their Officers and Subjects to give the said F. N. all sort of succour and assistance for the accomplishment of a design which equally concerns the advantage of all Nations without suffering any thing to be exacted from him contrary to the liberty of his Function and the Customs and Rights of the Kingdom Given at Versailles January 28. 1685. and the two and fortieth year of our Reign Signed Louis and upon the fold Colbert Though all things were ready for Embarquing A Frigat is joyned to the first Ship. and the Wind very fair for putting out to Sea yet it behoved us to stay till the Frigat called the Maligne mounted with thirty Guns which was lately ordered by the King to accompany the first Ship should be fitted and made ready to follow us when the news of these Orders came to Brest it caused so much Joy amongst all that were to go the Voyage and was received with so great applause that it was in every bodies mouth that now we could not but expect a prosperous Voyage The truth is without that assistance it would have been impossible to have carried the Kings Presents the Equipage of the Embassador and of the Officers of the Ship and Passengers and above all necessary Provisions for so long a Voyage not to speak of a great many Bales of all sorts of Curiosities which the King of Siam had sent for both from France and England About that time we had advice that at Lisbonne they had granted the Pass-ports which had been demanded for us The King ordered his Ambassadors at Lisbonne to demand Passports for the Jesuits from the Kingdom of Portugall and which we earnestly desired because the differences that happened betwixt Portugal and the French Ecclesiastics not being as yet made up we were in fear lest the Portuguese Officers might from thence take occasion to stop us on our way Monsieur de Saint Romain extraordinary Ambassador from the King in Portugal who very well knew the Kings mind as to that took notice of it in a discourse he made to the King of Portugal for obtaining the Passports These were his very words SIR I Have by the last Courier from France received Orders to acquaint your Majesty with the resolution the King my Master has of sending by Sea an Ambassador to the King of Siam in correspondence with the Civilities of that Prince and that taking advantage of that occasion he 'll send on Board the same Man of War six French Jesuits who are to go from Siam to Macao in China These Religious have in Commission to observe in their Travels by Sea and Land the Longitudes of the chief Places the Declinations and Variations of the Needle and all that can serve to certifie and improve our Charts and Navigation and to make an exact search of all sorts of curious Books for the Library of the King my Master I am commanded to tell your Majesty that they have express Orders to entertain a good correspondence with your Subjects in what place soever they may meet them and to have all due deference and submissions for the Portuguese Prelates The King my Master makes no doubt but that your Majesty desires also on your part that your Subjects in the East should give to these Religious the Succours and Assistances that they may stand in need of for the accomplishment of their Voyage and Commission and to the end they may be informed of it the King my Master has ordered me to demand as I do with confidence of your Majesty a Passport for these Religious in the most ample and favourable form that may be The Ship that is to carry the Ambassador of France and the Jesuits to Siam will infallibly set out before the end of March and I most humbly beg your Majesty that it would please you to order that Passport speedily to be expeded and presently after delivered In the same Packet they sent us this Letter The Letter of Father La Chaize to Father Verbiest at Peguin which Father la Chaize wrote in the Kings name to Father Ferdinand Verbiest of our Company Missionary of China and President of the Mathematics in that vast Empire Reverend Father WIth great joy do I acquit my self of the Commands of the greatest King in Christendom in addressing my self to your Reverence to recommend to you six of
come up with us sooner several others were to have embarked with us but the Season already far spent suffered us not to stay for them so that we put under Sail. Departure from the Bar of Siam And parted from the Bar of Siam with a good Wind the two and twentieth of December The Lord Constance had sent us on board all sorts of fresh Provisions in so great abundance that we were fain to pray him to send no more and even to leave some of them We came to Bantam the Tenth of January after we had run aground in the Streight of Banca through the Fault of the Dutch Pilot whom we took in at Batavia No Body can well tell what whimsy made him cast Anchor which put us in danger of being cast away for had not the Ground been so owzy as it was the Anchor we dropt would have bulged the Ship that ran foul of it and it was some trouble to get her off A Dutch Ship that came after had more Wit than to follow us and so was not stranded as we were So soon as we came to an Anchor before Bantam the Ambassador sent M. de Cibois Lieutenant of the Ship to make a Complement to the Governor not doubting but that he would come off with better Grace than he did the time before and the rather that he was not ignorant of the Civilities that the General of Batavia had shewn the Ambassador but we were mistaken Monsieur Cibois could not speak to the Governor who they said was sick and bid the Governor of the Fort tell him that they would send on board fresh Provisions This Promise amounted to no more but the sending of two or three Bullocks with an Excuse that there was no more to be had In the Evening came a Man who pretended to be sent from the Governor and demanded Money for the Bullocks which it was thought the Governor had presented to my Lord Ambassador That Messenger was used as he deserved and had an Answer given him to carry to the Governor sutable to such a clownish and uncivil Behaviour So next day we made Sail towards the Cape of Good-hope We had the best Luck imaginable in passing the Streight of the Sound which is a very difficult Passage to shoot because of contrary Winds that commonly reign there in that Season But God was graciously pleased to send us most excellent Weather which in a few Hours put us out of all Danger We had a more particular Instance of his Divine Providence three days after Our Pilots had a mind to keep thirty or forty Leagues to the Southward of the Isle Mony and thought they had steered their Course accordingly when about break of day Monsieur de Vaudâ—â—court made Land at three or four Leagues distance from us we had certainly run foul of it had it blown a little fresher in the Night-time This Land is so low that it is not to be known but by the Breaks We were obliged to bear away to the Leeward and leave it to the South contrary to our first Design During the whole Voyage we had as fair Weather as Heart could wish untill we were off of the Isle of Bourbon February the Thirteenth where we met with one of the most violent Gusts of Wind that the old Officers as they said had ever seen It lasted three days and having carried away the Frigats main Sail separated her from us much about the same place that we lost her when we were outward bound and we had no more sight of her till that Day we came to an Anchor at the Cape of Good-Hope whither she had got two Days before us News from an English Ship outward bound March the Tenth we made a Sail bound towards the Indies As we drew nearer we knew her to be an English Ship by her Colours My Lord Ambassador being willing to hear News from Europe sent Monsieur Cibois and his Secretary who spoke very good English to the Captain They brought back word that that Ship had been five Months out of England and that she was bound streight for Tunquin without touching any where that all was quiet in Europe that the King of England had defeated the Rebels and made the Duke of Monmouth who commanded them Prisoner who was shortly after beheaded that many of his Followers had suffered Death and other tasted of his Britannick Majesties Mercy These were very acceptable News to us and especially when they told us that the English Ship had made the Cape the Day before about seven Leagues off We then found that we were much nearer it than we imagined and next day casting out the Lead we found our selves about seven a Clock in the Morning upon the Bank of the Needles in ninety Fadom Water and about Noon we made the Cape of the Needles The Wind was then fair and we made the best use of it all Night long so that next day we made the Cape of Good-Hope about eight Leagues off About three in the Afternoon we came to the Mouth of the Bay but the Wind blowing too high for putting in we came to an Anchor betwixt Isle Robin and the main Land near the Frigat The Day following March the Thirteenth the Wind being abated we came to an Anchor in the Bay amongst seven great Dutch Ships that made up the East-India Fleet that was to return to Europe so soon as three or four Ships more which they daily expected were come to the Cape The Ambassador sent a Compliment to the Governour of the Fort who received it as kindly as the time before when we past that way We saluted the Fort with seven Guns and they returned us Gun for Gun. Whilst we were taking in Water and providing other necessary Provisions I went to pay a Visit to the Governour who had asked News of the six Jesuits whom he had seen the Year before He made me many Offers of Services offering me a Friends House if I would stay ashoar because the Observatory which was pulled down to be built again with greater Magnificence was not yet finished Being informed that I was to return to the Indies with several other Jesuits he added very obligingly that all should be ready against our Arrival and invited me and all my Companions before hand to come and refresh our selves there After all these Civilities he made me a Present of four lovely Tygers Skins and of a little tame Beast which he had taken in his last Expedition by the Hair and Size of it it resembles a Squirril and had much the Shape of one when he gave it me he told me it was the implacable Enemy of Serpents and was at cruel Wars with them It was then Vintage time which was very far advanced we eat of the Grapes of Africa that are plentiful and have a rare good Taste The White-wine is very delicate and if the Dutch knew as well how to cultivate Vines as to make Colonies and
158 The several Nations at Siam come and complement the Ambassador 160 The Lord Constance receives the Ambassador at the River-side 163 The Respect shewn to the Kings Letter 164 The Ambassador is carried to the Palace ibid. A Description of the Palace of the King of Siam 165 A Description of the Throne of the King of Siam 167 The Ambassador enters the Hall of Audience 168 The Harangue of the French Ambassador to the King of Siam 169 In what manner the Ambassador presented the Kings Letter to the King of Siam 171 The Ambassador presents the Abbot of Choisi and the Gentlemen of his Retinue to the King of Siam 172 The Ambassador sees the white Elephant in his Apartment ibid. The French Kings Letter to the King of Siam 173 The Ambassador visits the Bishop of Metellopolis 174 The King of Siam sends a Present to the Ambassador 175 The Ambassador ordered Money to be thrown out at the Windows to those who brought him the Present ib. The King of Siam sends his Presents to the Pagods with much Pomp. 176 The King treats the Ambassador in his Palace magnificently 178 The Ambassador Visits the most famous Pagod of Siam 180 A Pick weighs an hundred and twenty five pounds weight 181 A description of one of the fairest Temples of Siam ib. Rejoycings performed at Siam for the Coronation of the Kings of England and Portugal 185 The King of Siam goes abroad publickly to visit a Pagod 187 The King's Progress from Siam to Louvo 190 The Funeral of a great Talapoin 191 The description of a Palace of the King of Siam built after the European manner 193 The King gives the Ambassador an Audience at Louvo 195 The Elephants have five Toes in each Foot. 197 A description of Louvo 198 The King of Siam gives a private Audience to the French Jesuits ibid. The Jesuits Harangue presented to the King. 200 The Fifth Book THe Moors make a Feast to celebrate the Memory of their Prophet 215 The way of taking and taming Elephants 216 The Harangue of the Lord Constance to the King of Siam 216 The King of Siam answers the Lord Constance 222 The Motives that keep the King of Siam firm in his Religion 223 The Lord Constance his Reply to the King of Siam's Objections about changing of Religion 225 A Character of the King of Siam 227 We began to make observations at Louvo 230 Observation about the variation of the Needle 231 The King of Siam observes with the Jesuits an Ecclipse of the Moon in his Palace ibid. The King of Siam invites the Ambassador to an Elephant hunting 232 A description of that hunting 233 The King of Siam demands the Chevalier de Fourbin from the Ambassador 234 The Jesuits prepare to observe in the Kings Presence at Theepossonne 235 They begin the Observation of the Ecclipse before the King. 236 The King puts several Questions of Astronomy to the Jesuits 238 The way of catching Elephants 246 The Ambassador takes his Audience of Leave of his Majesty of Siam 248 Departure from Siam 251 The King of Siam's Letter is carried on board the Oyseau 252 Departure from the Bar of Siam 254 News from an English Ship outward bound 256 Putting out from the Bay of the Cape 258 We past the Line at the first Meridian 259 The Sixth Book THe Scituation of the Kingdom of Siam 264 A description of the Kingdom of Siam 265 The Habits of the Siamese 266 A Character of the Siamese and their Manners 267 The property of Betle and Areca 268 The property of Tea 269 The manner of preparing Tea ibid. What Ginseng is and its virtues ibid. The way of preparing Ginseng 270 Some particulars concerning certain Birds Nest 271 Various customs of the Siamese ibid. The Curiosity of the Siamese to know things future 272 The Reverence the Siamese have for their King. 273 The King holds Council several times a day 274 The Kings Daughter hath her Court and Council ibid. The Kingdom of Siam descends not from Father to Son. ibid. What the Siamese believe of their God. 275 The knowledg of the God of the Siamese 276 Wherein consists his happiness ibid. Men may become Gods. 277 The Siamese acknowledge a permanent state of Sanctity ibid. The Siamese believe a Heaven and a Hell. 278 What the Siamese believe of Hell. ibid. What they believe of Heaven 279 Vpon a Religious account the Siamese respect those who are any ways Eminent by the advantages of body mind or fortune 280 They know the punishment and guilt of Sin. 281 They believe Angels to be corporal 282 They acknowlegdge no other Devils but damned Souls 283 They Tell strange stories of certain Anchorites ibid. Their Belief touching the Eternity of the World. 284 The Earth in the opinion of the Siamese is flat and square ibid. The System of the Siamese 286 Prodigies which the Siamese expect before the birth of a new God. 287 Sommonokhodom is the last God of the Siamese 289 Fables which the Talapoins relate of their God. ibid. Thevathat Sommonokhodoms younger Brother makes War against him 290 Sommonokhodom assisted by the Female tutelary Angel of the Earth triumphs over his Enemies 291 The Foppery which the Talapoins tell of Sommonokhodom ibid. Thevathat killed his Brother Sommonokhodom when they were Apes 292 Thevathat makes a Schism and declares himself against his Brother 293 Thevathat conspiring to be God is with his Followers deprived of many knowledges ibid. The Talapoins perswade the Siamese that the Christian Religion is taken out of the Law which Sommonokhodom taught them 295 Thevathat is punished in Hell for having persecuted his Brother ibid. The Talapoins take the Siamese off from turning Christians by perswading them that Jesus Christ is Thevathat the Brother of their God. 296 Wherein consists the Annihilation of the Siamese God 297 The Siamese with great reverence preserve the hair and picture of their God. 298 False Oracles whereby the Siamese Authorise their Religion 299 The Law of the Siamese contains ten very severe Precepts 302 FINIS La Baye du Cap DE BONNE ESPERANCE Le Fort des Hollandois au Cap de Bonne Esperance Zembras ou Anes Sauvags du Cap. Carte des Pays en des Pâ—uples du CAP de Bonne Esperance Nouvell◠〈…〉 Hottentots habitans du Cap de Bonne Esperance Namaqua Peuples Nouvellem decouverts vers le Tropiq du Capricorne Rhinoceros Cerf du Cap. â—vache Marine Cerafte ou Serpent Cormâ— Cameleon du Cap de Bonne Esperanâ—e Petiâ— Lezard 〈◊〉 Cap de Bonne Esperance GRAND LEZARD DU CAP. LA RADE DE BANTAN LE PORT DE BATAVIA Batavia Cabinet de' Feuillage ou les Chinois font les Festin des Morts VEUE DE SIAM Balon du Roy a 76. Rameurs Ballon du Roy á 〈◊〉 Rameurs Ballon des Gentils Hommes Balon de Prince Mr. L Ambassadeur 〈◊〉 A. Constance en 〈◊〉 Semblable Elephan◠〈◊〉 avec sa Chaise pour la Princesse Reyne Elephant avec sa Chaise pous les Etrangerâ— le Roy monte sur son Elephant Palais de louvo d'ou le Roy de Siam Obserue l'Eclypse de Surie PAGODE DE SIAM Mandarin qui parle a vn de ses gens Ginseng Arequi Betel Talapoin allant par la Ville