Ant the Queen of Sheba's Parrot Esdras his Ass Ionas his Whale the 7 Sleepers Dog and Mahomet's Camel Which sufficiently demonstrates the Author to be Ignorant Impudent and Foolish The Government of the Kingdom of Persia. THe Government of Persia is purely Tyranical for the King has the sole Power of life and death over all his Subjects independent from his Council and without any Trials at Law He can put to what death he pleases the chief Lords of the Kingdom no man daring to dispute the reason Nor is any Soveraign in the World more absolute than he The King deceasing and leaving Male Issuâ—… behind him the Eldest ascends the Throne while his Brothers are kept in the Haram or Castle and their Eyes put out and if the King have the least jealously they are instantly put to death yea the Children of the Kings Brothers and Sisters likewise Formerly they were not so rigorous but only mov'd a red hot Iron to and fro before their Eyes But Sha Sefi perceiving that the poor unhappy Princes had some sight left ordered their Eyes to be digged out of their Heads Sha Sefi's cruelty spared not his Eldest Son Sha Abhas the Heir of his Throne ordering one of the Eunuchs to move an Iron before his Eyes no man knowing a reason but the Eunuch compassionating the young Prince moved an Iron yet not red hot before his Eyes and teaching him to counterfeit blindness preserv'd his sight till his Father lay upon his Death-bed when being very Penitent for having put out the Eyes of his Eldest Son to whom the Crown did of right belong the Eunuch seeing the King so sadly afflicted and ready to give up the Ghost assured him that he would restore the Prince to his sight and brought him with perfect Eyes to his Bed-side the sight of whom prolonged the Kings life till next day and gave him time to command all the Gaandees of the Court to obey Sha Abbas his Eldest Son as his lawful Successor There are several of these blind Princes at Ispahan and I knew one particularly saith my Author a person of excellent natural parts As blind as he is he is a great lover of Curiosities and has built him a House at Ispahan worth seeing He is overjoyed when he meets with any Rarities out of Europe feeling them in his hands and causing his Eunuchs to tell him the meaning of every thing He is a great admirer of Clock-work and Watches and to know what a Clock it is has little points set up in the Dial-plate and a half hand which points to the hour with certain Figures which he makes of soft Wax and sets in order upon a Table he will cast up an Account exactly Several other good quilities are eminent in him and it is a miserable spectacle that a Man should be reduced to that deplorable condition only because he is of the Blood-Royal of Persia This State is distinguished like most of those in Europe into three bodies First that of the Sword which answers to the Nobility and consists of the Kings houshold the Kans or Governors and all the Souldiery The second that of the Gown comprehending all those that belong to the Law and Courts of Justice The third is composed of Merchants Handicrafts men and Labourers Among other cunning Contrivances of Sha Abbas to know the true state of his Affairs without trusting too much to his Ministers he oft went disguised into the City like an ordinary man under pretence of buying and selling to discover whether false Weights and Measures were used so going one Evening in the habit of a Countrey-man to a Bakers to buy a Man of Bread and thence to a Cooks to buy a Man of Roast-meat a Man is six pound sixteen ounces to the pound having bought his bargains he return'd to the Court where causing them to be weighed exactly he found the Bread to want 57 Drams and the Meat 43. Upon which he fell into a rage against the Officers and the Governor of the City whose Belly he had caused to have been ript up but for the intercession of his Lords reproaching them for their negligence of the publick good and of the injustice of false Weights how sadly the cheat fell upon poor Men who having great Families and thinking to give them 800 Drams of Bread by that fraud deprived them of 143 then turning to the Lords he demanded what Justice ought to be done to those people none daring to open their Mouths while he was in that passion he commanded a great Oven to be made in the Market-place and a Spit big and long enough to roast a Man and the Oven to be heated all Night and a Fire to be kindled near the Oven Next Morning the King caused the Cook and Baker to be apprehended and led quite though the City with two Men going before proclaiming to the people We are going to put the Baker into a red hot Oven in the Piazza to be baked alive for selling bread by false Weights and the Cook is to be roasted alive for having sold Meat by false Weights Thus these two Men served for an Example not only to Ispahan but to all the Kingdom every one dreading the severe Justice of Sha Abbas Sha Abbas his successor acted almost such another piece of severity for having made one Iafer Kan a great Lord who kept a magnificent Train Governouor of Asterabat At first he was very mild but at last began to exact such sums from the people that his violences reached the Kings Ear who being one day drinking with his Lords and seeing the Master of his Musick in the Room who was a merry Droll and had always some pleasant news to tell the King he was pleased to ask him what the people said of Iafer-Kan adding that he had made him Governour of divers Provinces and had never heard any complaint of him but now he was accused of Tyranizing over the people The Musick Master being a meer Flatterer and knowing that Iafer-Kan was extreamly beloved of the King confidently averd'd that the Governor was falsly accused and that he had always known him apter to give than receive There was present an Agis lately returned from a Pilgrimage to Mecca him the King also asked what was his opinion of Iafer-Kan and his Government being a person long acquainted with him The Agis thinking to please the King returned the same answer The King who was well informed of the Kans behaviour turning to the Lords present What think you said he of these two Flatterers that absolutely know the contrary to what they speak And commanded two of the Musick Masters Teeth to be pluckt out and driven into the head of the Agis which had like to have cost him his life being a very old Man As for Iafer-Kan he was disgraced for a time but his excellent Accomplishments soon restored him again to favour Murther is severely punished nor will Money save the Criminal The
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so that if their Canoe overset at Sea ther are very little concerned all of them swimming back again to the place from whence they came and consequently they can Dive with great dexterity and fetch up any thing from the bottom About twelve their Fathers instruct them how to make a Canoe and catch Fish The Merchants bring their Sons acquainted with Europeans and with the Mystery of Trade At eighteen they begin to set up for themselves two or three together hiring a House and purchasing a Canoe they then cover their Nudities grow amorous and their Fathers look out Wives for them The Girls clean the Houses pick the Rice beat the Mays make the Bread clean the Kitchen buy and sell at Market make Baskets of Rushes and Matts which they weave extream curiously but their chief care is to provide Meat and Drink for their Parents secure their Goods and all other kinds of good Huswifry when grown up they are very lascivious and boast of their Gallantries especially with Strangers whom they seem to affect above their own Men They are very careful to keep their Teeth white have Wit enough but are very wanton with the Young Fellows stark naked to please whom they wash comb and plait their hair with great curiosity some paint their Foreheads and Eyebrows red and white and hang Pendants in their Ears all love Ribbons especially red they have Necklaces of Coral and Bracelets upon their Wrists Arms and Legs when they go abroad they weare a piece of Silk Taffaty or other Stuff wrapt about from the breast to the midleg and have always a great bunch of Keys though never a Coffer nor Trunk to open the Virgins make it their whole business to appear acceptable especially to white men and are seldom barren before though not very fruitful after Marriage For many years the English frequenting these Coasts made little benefit thereby for the Inhabitants perceiving their Gold so earnestly desired by all Nations set such a rate thereon and having been often beguiled they grew more wary in their bargaining and to the measure and goodness of their Commodities and though at first they knew no distinction of Christians but thought the Portugals and all other white men to be of the same Nation yet they have since learned the particular manners and dealing of each Countrey and have found the fairest Trade from the English who are therefore most welcome to them and speed best of any other Nation Especially since the Traders into these parts were Incorporated by their Charter dated Ian. 20. 1662. and intituled The Company of Royal Adventurers of England Trading into Africa or the Guinea Company The Limits of their Trade being from Sally in South Barbary to Cape de bona Esperanza or the Cape of Good Hope within which Limits all English Ships are prohibited to Trade unless Authorized by them The Commodities exported by the Royal Company to Africa are Iron Copper Slesias Sheets Says Perpetuana's Cowries Welch Plains Manillos Boysades Chints Romberges Coral Callico's Nicanies Clouts Amber Powder Muskets Batteries of all sorts Buckshaws Knives and Sheaths Swords Tallow c. For which they import from thence to England Gold Elephants Teeth Hides Malagueta or Ginny Pepper Red Wood Ambergreece with several other good Commodities besides numbers of Negroes for supplying the American Plantations to their great advantage The Royal African Company have Erected the following Forts and Castles upon the Coast for Securing their Commerce On the North Part of Guinea I Iames Fort in the River Gambia II. The Fort of Sierna Leona in Bence Island III. Sherbrow in York Island On the South Part of Guinea IV. Dickies Cove V. Comenda VI. Cape Coast Castle VII Fort Royal VIII Annamabo IX Winnebah X. Acra I. Iames Fort. THis Fort was formerly secured with eight Peices of Cannon but was demolished by the French in the late War It is now rebuilding much stronger and designed to have ninety Guns and a Garrison of Two Hundred and Fifty Europeans besides Negro's and Mulatto's The Government of this Place is reckoned worth about Two Thousand pound a year It is Scituate near Cape Verde so called from its continual greenness which makes it a delectable place being a Promontory which throws it self into the Sea covered with green Trees and causing a beautiful Prospect by reason of their evenness seeming as if planted by a line the Natives have generally small Bellies long Legs broad Feet long Toes sharp Sight quick Wits are Envious curiously Neat Thieves Letcherous subject to the Pox of which as well as their Pudenda they are not the least ashamed yet hold breaking wind backward a great incivility and wondred at the Hollanders for offering them such contempt They have Stomachs like Estridges as appears by their strange and usual repasts when they go to Market they wash from Head to Foot and put on other Cloths They buy only for one day Their Bread is made by stamping their Millet as we do Spice in a woodden dish steeping it over night with a little Maiz and in the morning laying it on a stone they grind it with another stone as Painters do their Colours till it be dough which they then temper with fresh Water and Salt and make Rolls thereof twice so big as a mans Fist baking them a little on the Hearth and then eat them Their Viands are raw flesh handfuls of Corn large draughts of Aqua Vitae Dogs Catts Buffles Elephants though stinking like Carrion and a thousand Magots crawling on them They have little Birds like Bullfinches which hang their Nests on the small ends of branches of Trees for fear of Snakes these they eat alive Feathers and all The Negro's say that up in the Countrey they eat dried Snakes and the guts of Dogs raw which our Author hath seen and a Boy who was left on Ship-board in pawn for Money would privately kill the Hens that he might eat the raw Guts They likewise eat raw stinking Fish dried in the Sun yet can dispence with dainties when they have them They make a kind of Ale of Mays and Water boyl'd together and putting it into a Vessel as large as a Kilderkin four or five place themselves round and drink it off each sending a little Pot full to his best beloved Wife They lay their hands upon the Head of him that drinks and cry aloud thrice Tautosi He must not drink off all but leave a little to throw on the ground to his Fetisso saying I ou spouting out some on the Arms and Legs of their Fetisso's supposing that otherwise they should not drink in quiet They are great drinkers and feed as unmannerly as Swine sitting on the ground not swallowing one Morsel after another but tear their meat to pieces and throw it into their Mouths which stand gaping to receive it they are always hungry and would eat all day long Yea the Europeans have great Appetites while they are there He that gets most drinks most
shall a time come when all ill men shall receive their deserts They imagin that their Friends after death become Spirits whom they call Iannanen and know all Transactions here below with whom therefore they hold familiar Colloquies acquainting them with all their troubles and adversities When they go into the Woods to hunt Elephants Buffles or upon any other dangerous Enterprize they go first and offer to the Spirit of their deceased Parents either a Cow Wine or Rice which they leave on the Grave They suppose them to reside in the Woods to whom they address themselves with great complaints and lamentations when in affliction where likewise their most Solemn Acts of Devotion are performed where no Women nor Children are permitted to come The King calls upon the Souls of his Father and Mother in every difficulty If a Woman be suspected of Adultery the complaining Husband desires she may be delivered up to Iannanen or the Spirits of his Ancestors and brings her in the Evening before the Council where calling the Spirits to her she is blindfolded admonished to forsake her evil Life and not to go to any but her own Husband and presently a great noise or murmur is raised as if Spirits did appear with some unintelligible though articulate sounds which are interpreted aloud to the whole Congregation with threatnings that if ever she commit the like offence again she shall be punished according to her demerits and with her Paramour be carried away by Iannanen to whom yet none are delivered up but upon clear evidence of their Guilt to which end they have a Water of Cursing or Divination wherewith they extort the Truth in all doubtful matters compounded of Barks and Herbs boiled together which when it is enough the Priest repeats secretly the names of the suspected persons or other matters to which the Witchcraft must be applied and then washes the Legs and Arms of those accused with fair Water after this he puts his Divining Staff which is bruised and tusted at the end into the Pot and drops or presseth the Water out of it upon the Arm or Leg of the suspected Person muttering these words over it If he be guilty of this or that then let this Water scâ—…ld or burn him till the very Skin come off If the Party remain unhurt they judge him innocent and proceed to the Trial of another till they have discovered the Criminal who being found the Executioner instantly leads him bound and blindfold into a Field or Wood and placing him on his Knees with his Head bowed down he first runs him through the Body with a Scimetar and then câ—…ops off his Head with an Ax for they do not believe he is dead till his Head is off The Carcase cut into four quarters after great lamentations they leave in the Field as a Prey to the Beasts and Fowls but the Friends take away the Head as a great Present and boiling it in a Kettle drink up the Broth hanging the Scull by their Fetisso or Idol The like Trial is made of other offences among the Blacks so that every one had need be very careful to prevent suspicion V. Commenda THis Fort is Four Square strongly built of Stone It hath Twenty Guns and Fourscore Europeans to defend it with many Negro's and Mulatto's Some time since Mendino the King of Manou died whose Subjects and Favourites made strict inquiry according to Custom how he came by his end but the narrowest of their scrutinies not being able to make any discovery they were forced to acquiesce yet had such an inveterate hatred against Manimassah his Brother that they forced him to the Trial which seeing no other Remedy he underwent without any hurt as a remarkable sign of his Innocence whereupon he demanded to be restored to his former Honour and Credit but instead thereof the Tryers told him The King in his Life time was our Common Father and should not we after his death endeavour to find out what caused him to dye it were a great shame for us we have examined and tryed you but it shall not remain so we will look farther into the business and make the Southsayers acquainted with it Manimassah mad at these inhumane usages burst forth at last into these words This shame is not to be suffered from my own Subjects in my own Countrey I will go under the Conduct of the Spirits of my deceased Friends and seek a dwelling place In this manner leaving his Native Countrey he travelled Northward into Gala inhabited by a mean and simple People and won so upon them by his endearing behaviour that they unanimously besought him to be their Prince to which he consented upon condition That they should give him some of their Plants and Venison for an acknowledgement of their subjection This they yielded to but such was their brutish Barbarism that though they owned him their Lord they used him as there Companion for being wholly unacquainted with Civility when any of them brought him Wine Rice or Flesh they came again to him to require their Callibashes or Basquets which unmannerly clownish behaviour Manimassah so resented that he withdrew from them to require assistance from Flansire King of Folgia whose Daughter he had Married to reduce the Gala's to his Authority The King hearing the request of his Son in Law lent him many Souldiers under the Conduct of Flonikerry his General who unexpectedly fell into Gala and subdued the People setling Manimassah in an absolute Dominion who hath ever since continued their Prince and taught them with sorrow more respective qualities after this Flonikerry returned to Folgia where he was received and welcomed with great applause and the King willing to gratifie him for his honest performances he according to Flonikerrys Petition gave him leave to go and Conquer and settle himself and his People in Cabo Monte an adjacent Countrey expressing his kindness in saying I shall do the desire of his Heart He with a considerable force Marching toward this place the Inhabitants being numerous and couragious were not soon subdued but at length tired with the continual onsets of their Enemies who shot poysoned Arrows which made all wounds though never so slight prove Mortal a fatal Invention unknown to these People they went with their Hoods upon their Heads as usual to ask favour which Flonikerry naturally inclined to pity easily granted bidding them go lie down with their Faces upon the ground then coming out of his Fort he trod upon them with his feet He then made an Agreement with them some Hens being killed in the presence of them all of whose Blood the Conquered swallowed a little as a token of Friendship Afterward the Hens were boiled and the Flesh eaten among them only the Legs were kept for a perpetual Remembrance for if any Man after that time broke his promise to him were the Legs shown who upon sight thereof soon recaâ—…ted for fear of the punishment that would follow Flonikerry overjoyed
Mâ—…avias a valiant Souldier advanced himself and to remove all future pretensions he slew Hali with his Son Ossan and eleven of Ossans Sons but Musa Ceresin the twelsth Son made his escape From this Musa one Guine Sophie derived his Pedigree in 1360. And considering that there had been no Caliphs for many Years past he began to contrive the reviving and establishing that Honourable Dignity in his own Family He dying in the midst of his Projects left the prosecution of them to his Son Aider Sophie who being a man of great industry sanctity and power and strenghtned with the love and real affection of his people Ussan Cassanes Prince of the Armenians gave him his Daughter to Wife But Iacup the Son and successor of Ussan after his fathers Death envying the glory of Aider Sophie and fearing his power caused him to be slain and delivered his 2 Sons which he had by Iacups Sister named Ishmael and Solyman to Amazor one of his Captains to secure them in prison Amazor being of a generous temper afforded them not only liberty but gave them ingenuous education Afterward Ismael the eldest a Gentleman of promising hopes undertook to revenge the Death of his Father which he likewise performed staying Iacup and his Son Elvan After this Victory Ismael being crowned King or Sophie or Shaa of Persia he altered the form of Religion there declaring Hali and himself to be the only true Successors of Mahomet the Prophet and condemning Abubezer Haumar and Osman with the Turks their Abettors and Followers as Usurpers Rebels and Schismaticks and ordered all Books to be Burnt and all Monuments to be defaced that mentioned any thing in honour of those 3 Caliphs This difference in Religion hath created so mortal an aversion in them to each other that the Turks hold it more meritorious to kill one Persian than 70 Christians The City of Medina where Mahomet lyes buried is in Arabia 3 days Journey from the Red Sea His Tomb is inclosed within an Iron Grate and covered with green Velvet which is every year made New and sent by the Grand Seignior the old one being by the Preists cut into small peices and sold at great Rates as Reliques to the Pilgrims In the Temple where this Tomb is placed there are say'd to be 3000 Lamps of Gold and Silver wherein is Balsome and other rich odours ointments and oils continually kept burning They would impose it for a Miracle that this Tomb should hang in the Air by means of Loadstones but besides that there is no such thing for it stands on the Floor were it true there were no such wonder in it For Democrates the Atheniah by order of Ptolomy K. of Egypt undertook to make the Statue of Arsinoe all of Iron and to hang in the Air. And in the Temple of Serapis in Alexandria there was an Iron Sun that hung in the Air by the force of a Loadstone being a rare peice of Workmanship The Turks make a Pilgrimage to this Tomb and all true Musselmen are obliged once in their Lives at least to go thither To this purpose I will relate the following Story from a late Traveller into Turkey A Mahumitan having in obedience to a Religious Vow undertaken this Journey and being of the Opinion of the rest of his fellow Travellers or the Caravan as it is called that they should meet with Water at a certain Well or Cistern upon the Road had made use of the best part of their Provision as the rest had done upon the Ceremony of the Abdest or Ablution which is their washing themseives before their Devotious for they wash the best part of the Head and Neck their Arms up to the Elbows their Feet the end of the Priapus and the Posterior Orifice And for this Reason they never erect any Mosquee or Church without planting Fountains round about it for they firmly believe that their Prayers put up without these Washings and in a state of Impurity would rather draw down the Wrath of Heaven upon them than procure the blessings of God And indeed these severe Commands of washing so often are very troublesome as well to those that live in dry places far from Water as others in the Northern cold Climates so that several Turks could wish heartily that they might be permitted to change their Religion which ties them to so many inconvenient slabberings When these Pilgrims came to the Cistern where they hoped to be supplyed they found the Water dryed up by the heat of the Sun They were extreamly concerned thereat finding themselves in the midst of the Sands Deserts and heats of Arabia They knew not what course to take in that extremity of drowth which tormented them with Impatience nor had many of them Money to buy Water of those who had been more provident and indeed had not much to spare Our poor Mahumetan found himself reduced to endure a scorching drouth and ready to be buried alive in the stifling Clouds of Sand which the Wind raises in that miserable Road. inspired him with more Execrations against Mahomet and his accursed Errors tren the most zealous of the Eastern Christians could have invented for him He said He did not wish the Devil had taken Mahomet for he did not believe him so unjust as to let that Impostor escape his Claws who being the only cause of the death of so many Millions of people as perished in going to his Tomb justly deserved as many deaths in Hell as he had caused poor Creatures to suffer torments in this infamous cruel Pilgrimage But he wisht with all his heart That Heaven had Thunderstruck from above and that Hell had then swallowed in Flames the first contrive s of that accursed Alcoran and the unfortunate Propogators of the Law of Mahomet or that he himself had been born a Christian. Some Christians in the Company were much surprized to hear a Mahometan thus blaspheme his own Religion but they were told That this Person was of a Sect who were neither Turks nor Christians but a sort of Mahumetan Heretics When a Mahumetan has purified himself he goes into the Church with his Eyes fixt upon the Ground and barefoot To which end the Eastern People have Shoes or Slippers of Goats Skins dyed Yellow Red Violet or Black but none of them may wear them Green in the Turkish Dominions this being the sacred colour which Mahomet so much affected only their Emirs wear a Green Bonnet which they put on with great reverence on their Heads and is a mark of their being allied to their Great Prophet and Legislator But this is not regarded in Persia. as we may find by the following Story Sha Abbas the renowned K. of Persia was the most accomplished Prince in all the East It happened that a Turkish Ambassador one time at his Court being much concerned to see Christians as well as Mahometans wearing green Shoes and Trowses over all Persia He in the name of his Master required the King to
the mischance of Capt. Woodcock who at the taking of Ormus seized a Frigate as Prize laden with near a Million of Ryals but coming into Swally Road the Ship sunk and therewith all his Golden hopes vanished The English East-India Company and also the Dutch have their Presidents and Factories in this City making it the greatest Mart in the Indies Surat is secured with a Castle of Stone well stored with Cannon The Houses are generally Built of Sun dried Bricks which are very large and lasting They have flat roofs railed round about to prevent falling They have beautiful Gardens of Pomegranats Melons Figs and Lemons interlaced with Rivulets and Springs The English House for the reception and Staple of their Goods is very Magnificent Baroche not far distant drives a great Trade in Cottons The English have a very Noble House here Not far from which Tavernier writes that of a dry stick a Mountebank in less then half an Hour made a Tree grow Five foot high which did bear Leaves and Flowers The History of Savagi the Indian Rebel THe Plundeiing of Surat by the famous Rebel Savagi and other his Actions deserve here to be inserted This Raja or Lord Savagi was Born at Bashaim the Son of a Captain of the King of Visiapour and being of a turbulent Spirit rebelled in his Fathers lite time and putting himself in the head of several Banditti and other debauched young men he retired into the mountains of Visiapour and defended himself against all those that came to attack him The King of Visiapour thinking that his Father kept Intelligence with him caused him to be seized and imprisoned where he dyed Savagi was hereat so incensed against the King that he breathed nothing but revenge And in a short time plundered Visiapour his principal City and with the booty he took there made himself so powerful as to be able to seize several Towns as Rajapour Sasigar Crapaten Daboul and to form a little State thereabout The King dying about that time and the Queens endeavours to reduce him being unsuccessful she accepted the Peace he proposed to her That he should enjoy the Territories which he had subdued and be tributary to the Young King and pay him half his Revenue However Savagi could not rest but being a stout man vigilant bold and undertaking in the highest degree he resolved to seize upon Cha-bestkan Governour of Decan and Uncle to the Great Mogol with all his Treasures even in the midst of his Armys in the Town of Aurenge Abad And had effected his design if he had not been discovered too soon For one night being accompanied with a crew of resolute Fellows he got into the very Apartment of Cha-hest kan where the Governours Son forward in his Fathers defence was killed and he himself grieivously wounded Savagi in the mean time getting away without damage Yet this disappointment did not daunt him in the least insomuch that he undertook another bold and dangerous enterprize in the Year 1664. which succeded better He drew about 3000 chosen men out of his Army with whom he took the Feild without noise spreading a Report by the way that it was a Nobleman going to Court When he was neer Surat that Famous and Rich Port of the Indies instead of Marching farther as he made the Grand Provost of that Countrey whom he met believe he fell into that Town cutting off the Arms and Legs of the Inhabitants to make them discover their Treasures searching digging and loading away or burning what he could not carry away with him He continued plundring 40 days So that none but the Dutch and English saved themselves because they were in a good posture of defence especially the English who having time to send for assistance from some of their Ships which lay near the Town behaved themselves gallantly and saved besides their own several other Houses near them A certain Jew of Constantinople who had brought Rubies of a great value to sell them to the Great Mogol was thrice brought upon his knees and had the knife held up to cut his Throat yet still persisted in his denial that he had any and so saed his Life and Jewels At that time the K. of Ethiopia had sent an Ambassador to the Great Mogol with several Presents and among others Twelve curious Horses and a little Mule the Skin of which was speckled like that of a Tyger So finely so variously and so orderly streaked that no Silkin Stuff of India was more beautiful There were also 2 Elephants Teeth so prodigiously large that a very strong man could scarce lift one of them from the ground Lastly the Horn of an Oxe full of Civet half a foot broad on the top They were no sooner arrived at Surat but Savagi came and ransackt and burnt the Town and there House among the rest So that they could save nothing but their Letters He emptied the Oxes horn and carried away the Horses and the Elephants Teeth He durst not attack the Castle but Marcht off without opposition loaden with Gold Silver Jewels Silk Stuffs fine Linnen and other Rich Merchandize to the Value of Three hundred thousand pound English money The Great Mogol sent an Army under Iesseingue to besiege the principal Fortress of Savagi who being expert in matters of treaty he so ordered the business that Savagi surrendred before it came to extremity and afterward joined with the Mogol against Visapour The Mogol declaring him a Raja taking him under his protection and making his Son a considerable Commander Some time after the Mogol intending War against Persia writ such obliging Letters to Savagi extolling his Generosity Ability and Conduct that he at length resolved upon the Faith of Iesseingue to come to the Mogol at Dehli A Kinswoman to the Mogol being then at Court having a great influence upon him perswaded him to secure Savagi who had murdered her Son wounded her husband and destroyed Surat So that one evening Savagi saw his Pavillions beset with 3 or 4 Begments of Souldiers But he made shift to get away in the night the eldest Son of Iesseingue was suspected to have furthered his escape but many say'd that it was by the consent of the Great Mogol since he could no longer retain him at Court because of the great spleen of the Women against him for having dipt his hands in the Blood of their kinsmen After this Savagi seized on many strong Holds mostly seated upon steep mountains the Mogol not being able to reduce him and he often ravages the Countrey from Goa to the very Gates of Surat He has likewise Ships at Sea and in the Year 1683 Fifteen hundred of his men in 3 Ships and four Grabbs attackt an English East-India Ship Capt. Iohn Hide Commander but were bravely repulsed with a great slaughter though those brave Englishmen had not the happiness long to enjoy the honour of that Noble Action their Ship being unfortunately cast away coming into the Channell and all the
rebuild and plant Banners over it nay some perform their Devonions at it One time saith my Author my Brother and I and a Dutch Chyrurgeon going along a narrow way having the Pales of a Garden on one hand one of these Rascals thrust hii Pike between the Pales thinking to have stabd it into one of our Breasts the Dutch man being before the head of the Pike ran into hii Breeches we both laid hold on the Staff while my Brother leap'd over and ran the Faquir through several Chineses came and gave my Brother thanks for killing him After which we waited on the K. who far from being displeased gave him a Girdle for the K is glad when those Rogues are slain counting them Desperados and not fit to live In 1682. The Eldest Son of the K of Bantam declared himself King and by the assistance of the Dutch took the City of Bantam and the English Factory there proclaiming the old K his Father a Rebel About the same time an Ambassador came from the old K. to K. Charles 2 by whom he was kindly entertained and having continued here some time oeturned again to his own Countrey At Socodona and Beniermasa in the Isse of Borneo the English setled other Factories It is as big as Spain incompassed with other smaller Islands and hath a City of the same name founded on Piles in the Salt Water with Sumptuouâ—… buildings of Stone covered with Coco leaves The People are more white than other Indians of good Wits and divided beewixt two Kings and two Religions the K of Borneo and his Wife being Mahumetans these of Laus still remaining in their Ancient Gentelism These believe the Sun and Moon are Man and Wife and the Stars their Children ascribing to them divine Honours to the Sun especially whom they salute at his rising with great reverence repeating certain verses Their publick business being treated in the Night the Councellors of State ascend some Tree viewing the Heavens till the Moon rise and then go to the Senate house Their Apparel is very thin by reason of the extream heat being only a Shirt of Silk or Callico which they wear more for modesty than warmth One of the Isles of Celebs is called Macassar where the English likewise setled a Factory being 600 miles from East to West plentiful of all necessaries in some part over-grown with Wood in which fiery Flyes make nightly such light as if every Twig or Bough were a Candel In the midst are high Mountains out of which flow many 〈◊〉 Rivers The Islanders Poyson their Arrows with the 〈◊〉 of certain Trees in 〈◊〉 so as to work a swift or slow death 〈◊〉 â—…re They think the K. has only these ret Receit to take away the 〈◊〉 of it who boastâ—… that he has the most effectual Pâ—…son in the World which no Remedy can cure One time an Englishman in heat of Bâ—…d had killed one of the King of Macassets Subjects and though the King had pardoned him yet both English Hollanders and Portugals fearing if the Englishman should go unpunished the 〈◊〉 would revenge it upon some of them besought the King to put him to deâ—… which 〈◊〉 much adâ—… being granted the King unwilling to put him to a â—…ngring death and desirous to shew the effect of his Poyson resolved to dispatch the Criminal himself so he took a long Trunk and shot him exactly in the great Toe of the right Foot the place he particularly aimed at Two â—…hirurgcons one an Englishman the other an Hollander provided on purpose immediately cut off his Toe but for all that the Poyson had dispersed it self so speedily that the Englishman died presently All the Kings and Princes of the East use strong Poysons and some Europeans having tried their Arrows by shooting at Squirrels they felt down dead as soon as they were touched The English Factories in China THis vast Kingdom was governed by Kings of their own for many Generatiens But Zunchin the last Emperor suffering the Eunuchs by extortion to oppress the People became odious to them So that in 1640. They joined with 2 Revolted Generals one of whom named Ly overraâ—… the whole Empire in a short space and was crowned K at Pequin Zunchin to prevent any Insult from the Rebels hanged himself upon a Tree in the Garden where his Empress had just before done the same the Traytor Ly enjoyed his Usurpation â—…ut a short time for the Cham of Tartary reckoning the former League of Peace with Zunchin voyd by his Death without an Heir He invaded China with mighty Forces and made an absolute Conquest thereof forcing the Tyrant to fly and hide himself and most of the treacherous Chinois were cut off by the Tartars the present Emperor of China and Tartary is the Son of him who made this prodigious Conquest The East India Company have 3 Factories in this Kingdom named Amoy Canton and Tunqueen from whence they bring great Quantities of Druggs and several other Commodities A late Author gives the following Lyst of the Fo rs Factories and Places of Trade wherein the Honourable East-India Company are concerned in Asia Bombay Castle Island And Dabul in Decan On the Coast of Cormandel Fort St. George Trinity Watch. Trinity Bass. Porto Novo Fort St. David Cudaloor Conimere Manjeckpatam Arzapore Pettipolee Messulipatam Madapollam Viccegaparam In the Gulf of Bengale Bengal Hugli Ballasore Cassumbezar Moulda Daca Chutta Nutta Pattana In the Empire of the Gâ—…eat Mogol Agra Cambaia Surat Amadaâ—…vd On the Coast of Malabar Callicut Carwar Gussurat Camboia Batricullay Duno Satanam Tully Chery Beataer Bringen In Arabia Faelix Muscat Mocha Mackuâ—…la Shahare Kisen Durga Doffare Aden In the kingdom of of Persia. JSpahan Gombroon Bassora In the Isle of Sumatra AChem Indrapore Bengalis Jambee Eyer Barma Eyer Dickets â—…yamong â—…ppon â—…amola Selabar On the Malay Coast. PEque Trinacore Cudda In the Empire of China TUnqueen Canton â—…moy Hockâ—…eu Siam Camboida in the Kingdom of Siam Mindano in the Island of Mindano Borneo in the Island of Borneo Iudda upon the Red Sea Mucassar in the Isle of Celebs Now Expelled Bantam in Iava till expelled by the Dutch 1682. FINIS Books Printed for Nath. 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