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A64545	A relation of the voyage to Siam performed by six Jesuits, sent by the French King, to the Indies and China, in the year, 1685 : with their astrological observations, and their remarks of natural philosophy, geography, hydrography, and history / published in the original, by the express orders of His Most Christian Majesty ; and now made English, and illustrated with sculptures.; Voyage de Siam des pères jésuites. English	Tachard, Guy, 1651-1712.	1688 (1688)	Wing T96; ESTC R16161	188,717	400

there they come out and take the first word they hear spoken for the response of the Oracle which they have consulted It sometimes happens that to punish their criminal Curiosity God permits that the event confirms what they have learnt by this way Thus some of the Wives of the first Ambassadors that were sent to France or board the Sun of the East being anxious to know the Destiny of their Husbands whom they feared they should never see again made their Sacrifices in the Cave I mentioned and being afterwards come back again to the Town in the Evening they heard a Woman saying to her Slaves Shut the door they 'le return no more They took these words as a presage of the misfortune that happened in the Sequel and from that time bewailed the loss of their Husbands The respect they have for the King goes as far as adoration The Reveren●e the Siame●e have for their King. The posture wherein they are to be in his presence is a visible mark of it Nay even in the Council which sometimes lasts four hours the Ministers lye all the while prostrate before the King and if any of them chance to faint he dares not rise upon his knees nor sit up upon the ground though the Prince comm●nd him so to do till a Curtain he drawn before ●is Throne When the King goes abroad all must withdraw and no body dares to be in his way but they who have express orders for it unless it be when he had a mind to show himself to his people on certain days of Ceremony Strangers also have Notice given them to keep within doors when the King is to go abro●d No man is suffered to come near the Palace whil'st he is there One day as I was returning from a Pagod with a Mandarin who had carried me thither in his Balon our Water-men going along with the Stream came a little too near the Walls of the Palace But they soon stood off again when they felt a shower of pease flying about their ears which the S●uldiers upon the guard shot at them with Trunks to make them withdraw The King holds Council several times a day The King holds several Councils daily and that 's his greatest exercise None of his Counsellers dares be absent and if any of them chanced to have extraordinary business or to fall sick he ought before the hour of Council ask leave of the King to be absent Without that leave no hurry of business nor sickness will excuse him from incurring grievous punishments if he be able to go for the King never fails to send to know the reasons of his absence and the Officer whom the King sends has Orders to speak to the person himself The Kings Daughter hath her Court and Council The Princess the Kings only Daughter hath her Court and Council consisting of the Wives of the chief Mandarins She is witty and active and in the Government of the Provinces which the King hath given her shows a great deal of wisdom and moderation She is only served by Women and no Man ever saw her neither publicly nor privately When she goes abroad upon an Elephant she is shut up in a kind of Chair that hinders her from being seen The Kingdom of Siam descends not from Father to Son. In the Kingdom of Siam the Kings Brothers are preferred before his Children in the Succession to the Crown but it returns to these after the death of their Uncles The present King has two Brothers who live with him in the Palace he hath also according to the custom of the Orientals an adoptive Son who accompanies him in all places and who has peculiar honours rendered unto him The Religion of the Siamese is very odd and cannot be perfectly understood but by the Books that are written in the Balis Language which is the Learned Language and hardly understood by any except some of their Doctors Nor do these Books neither always agree amongst themselves This following account of their Religion is the most exact that possibly I could attain to The Siamese believe a God but they have not the same notion of him that we have What the Siamese believe of their God. By that word they understand a being perfect after their manner consisting of Spirit and Body whose property it is to assist-men That assistance consists in giving them a Law prescribing them the ways of living well teaching them the true Religion and the Sciences that are necessary unto them The perfections which they attribute unto him are all the moral virtues possessed by him in an eminent degree acquired by many acts and confirmed by a continual exercise in all the Bodies he hath past through He is free from passions and feels no motion that can alter his tranquillity but they affirm that before he arrived at that State he made so prodigious a change in his Body by struggling to overcome his Passions that his blood is become white He hath the Power to appear when he pleases and also to render himself invisible to the eyes of men and he hath such wonderful agility that in a moment he can be in any place of the world he pleases The knowledg of the God of the Siamese He knoweth all without having ever learnt any thing from men whose Doctor and Master he himself is and that universal knowledg is inherent in his state having possessed it from the instant that he was born God it consists not as our doe● in a train of consequences but in a clear simple and intuitive vision which all at once represents to him the Precepts of the Law Vices Virtues and the most hidden secrets of Nature things past present and come Heaven Earth Paradice Hell this Universe which we see and even what is done in the other Worlds which we know not He distinctly remembers all that hath ever befallen him from the first transmigration of his Soul even to the last His body is infinitely more radiant than the Sun it lights that which is most hidden and by the help of the light that it diffuses a man here below upon Earth might that I may make use of their expression see a grain of Mustard seed placed in the Highest Heavens Wherein consists his happiness The happiness of that God is not compleat but when he dies never to be born again for then he appears no● more upon the Earth nor is he any more subject to Misery They compare that death to a torch extinct or to a sleep that renders us insensible of the Evils of Life with this difference that when God dies he is exempted from them for ever whereas a man asleep is but free from them for a certain time This reign of every Deity lasts not eternally it is confined to a certain number of years that 's to say until the number of the elect who are to be sanctified by his Merits be accomplished after which he appears

no more in the World but slides into on Eternal repose which was thought to have been a real annihilation because they were not rightly understood Then another God succeeds to him and governs the Universe in his place which is nothing else but to teach men the true Religion Men may become Gods Men may become Gods. but not till after a very considerable time for they must needs have required a consummated Virtue Nor is it enough to have done a great many good Works in their Bodies where their Souls have lodged they must also at every good Action they do have an intention of meriting Divinity they m●●t have intimated that intention by invoking and taking to witness the Angels who preside in the four Parts of the World at the beginning of their good work and they must have poured out water imploring the Succours of the She-tutelary Angel of the Earth called Naang pprathoram for they believe as we shall shew hereafter that there is a diversity of Sex amongst Angels as well as amongst Men. They who desire to be Gods carefully observe that Practice Besides that state of Divinity to which the most perfect aspire there is another not so high The Siames● acknowledge a permanent state of Sanctity which they call the state of Sanctity It it enough for being a Saint that having past through several Bodies one has acquired many Virtues aad that in the Acts which men do they have proposed the acquisition of Sanctity The Properties of Sanctity are the same with those of Divinity The Saints possess them as well as God does but in a far more imperfect degree besides that God has them of himself without receiving them from another whereas the Saints derive them from him by the Instructions he gives them It is he who teaches them all those Secrets whereof he hath a perfect Knowledg And therefore it is that if they be not born whilst he is in the world since they cannot receive his Documents they are not sanctified So that it is their custom in doing good Works to desire the Grace to be born again at the same time their God is What we have said of the Deity that it is not consummated till God dying upon Earth ascends up into Heaven that he may no more appear here below ought in like manner to be understood of Sanctity for it is not perfect till the Saints die not to be born again and till their Souls be carried into Paradice there to enjoy eternal Felicity The Siamese believe a Heaven and a Hell. These and the like are the Sentiments of these People touching the Deity And seeing they have sense enough to know that Vice is to be punished and Virtue rewarded they believe a Paradice where the Just enjoy the pleasure which their good works have merited and a Hell where the wicked receive the chastisement due unto their crimes They place Paradice in the highest Heaven and Hell in the Center of the Earth The Pleasures of Paradice and the Pains of Hell are not eternal they shall be there but for a certain time which is longer or shorter according as they have done more or less good works or committed more or fewer sins What the Siamese believe of Hell. They say that in Hell there are Angels who administer Justice and take care to mark exactly all the bad Actions of Men examine them after their Death and with extream severity punish them for the same They have a ridiculous imagination as to the Judgment that then passes they are perswaded that the first of these Judges whom they call Prayomppaban hath a Book wherein the Life of every particular man is registred that he continually reads it over and that when he comes to the Page which contains the History of that man he never fails to sneeze Therefore it is say they that we sneeze upon Earth and thence proceeds the Custom they have of wishing a happy and long Life to all that sneeze Hell is divided into eight Habitations which are as it were eight degrees of Pain nay they believe also that there is a Fire which burns the damned They fancy to themselves also in Heaven eight degrees of Beatitude What they believe of Heaven They 'l have the same things to happen there as upon Earth and affirm that there are Kings Princes and People there that there they wage War fight Battels and obtain Victories that Marriage it self is not banished from thence that in the first second and third Habitations the Saints may have Children that in the fourth in fine there is no more Concupiscence nor Marriage and so Purity daily encreases till one come to the last Heaven which is properly Paradice called in their Language Niruppan where the Souls of the Saints and Gods live in perfect Purity and sovereign Felicity They maintain that all the Good or Evil that happens to men is the effect of their good or bad Works and that one is never unfortunate and innocent at the same time Thus Wealth Honours Sanctity and Divinity are the Rewards of a virtuous Life and on the contrary Infamy Poverty Diseases Death and Hell are the punishments of Sins which men have committed And whether one be born again under human shape or under the figure of any Animal they attribute the Advantages wherewith one comes into the world as Goodness Gracefulness Wit or Nobility to the Merit of good Works and natural Deserts as Ugliness Mutilation of Members and the like to the Debauches of this or the other Lives which went before it All these things say they are so many certain Marks which discover to us what Lives men have led before they were born in this state and this is the Source of that prodigious diversity which appears in their Conditions their Lives and their Death Being prepossessed with these Errors they slight what you tell them of Original Sin and the Effects thereof and they call the Disobedience and Punishment of our first Father a meer Fiction Upon a Religious account the Siame e respect those who are any ways Eminent by the advantages of body mind or Fortune The Souls of men that are born again in the World come from three different Places from Heaven from Hell or out of the Bodies of Animals They whose Souls come from Heaven are distinguished by some advantageous Signs they have for their share Virtue Beauty Health Wealth and they are born great Men and handsom Princes Upon this Principle these People shew great respect for men of Dignity or of an illustrious Extraction because they look upon them as those who are shortly to be deified or sanctified s●eing they have done good Works enough to merit that high Rank of Honour to which they are raised They whose Souls come out of the Bodies of other Animals are less perfect than the former but far more however than those that come from Hell. They look upon these last as Rogues whose Crimes

him so much Glory and happiness and which are no other than the Knowledge and Worship of the true God which is only to be found in the Christian Religion He offers your Majesty then by his Ambassador adjuring you and your whole Kingdom to embrace and follow it That Prince Sir is more admirable still by his Wisdom Judgment and Prudence than by his Conquests and Victories Your Majesty knows his generosity and Royal Friendship you cannot make a better choice than to follow the wise Counsels of so great a King your good friend For my part Sir I never begg'd any thing of the great God for your Majesty but that Grace and I would be ready to lay down a thousand lives that I might obtain it of the Divine Bounty May it please your Majesty to consider that by that action you will Crown all the Great and Illustrious exploits of your Reign you will eternize your Memory and procure to your self immortal Honour and Glory in the next World. Ah Sir I adjure your Majesty not to send back the Embassador of so great a King with discontent he begs that in the name of the King his Master for establishing and rendring your Alliances and Royal Amities inviolable at least if your Majesty hath entertained any good thought or if you find the least inclination to embrace that Party that you would make it known It is the most acceptable news that he can carry to the King his Master Now if your Majesty hath resolved not to condescend to what I have had the honour to represent to you or that you cannot give a favourable answer to the Ambassador I beg of you to excuse me from carrying your Royal answer which cannot but be displeasing to the Great God whom I adore You ought not to think it strange that I speak to you in this manner whosoever is not faithful to his God cannot be so to his Prince and your Majesty ought not to do me the honour to suffer me in your Service if I entertained other Sentiments The King of Siam answers the Lord Constance The King heard the Discourse of the Lord Constance without interrupting him and having a little pondered with himself as one whose mind was taken up with great thoughts he answered him upon the spot in these terms FEAR not that I will force your Conscience But who hath made the King of France my good Friend believe that I entertained any such Sentiments Ah Sir who can doubt replied the Lord Constance but that your Majesty has those great thoughts when they consider the Protection you give to Missionaries the Churches you have caused to be built the Charity you give to the Fathers of China It is upon that Sir that the King of France grounds his perswasion that your Majesty had an inclination towards Christianity But when you told the Ambassador added the King the reasons that make me continue in the Religion of my Ancestors what answer had you from him The Ambassador of France replied the Lord Constance found your Reasons to be very weighty but seeing the propositions he made you in the name of the King his Master was sincere and disinterested and that that great Monarch had no other prospect but your Majesties good he did not think that any of the reasons which I told him ought to hinder him from obeying his Masters Commands especially when he understood that the Ambassador of Persia was arrived in the Kingdom of Siam and that he brought your Majesty the Alcoran to the end you might follow it In that view the Ambassador of France thought himself obliged to offer your Majesty the Christian Religion and to adjure you to embrace it Is it true answered the King that the Ambassador of Persia brings me the Alcoran It is so reported reply'd the Lord Constance To which the King forthwith made answer I wish with all my heart the Ambassador of France were here to see what Reception the Ambassador of Persia should have from me Certainly if I had no Religion at all I would never choose the Mahometan But to answer the Ambassador of France continued the King you shall tell him from me I think my self extreamly obliged to the King of France his Master finding in his Memoirs the marks of his most Christian Majesties Royal Friendship and since the honour that that great Prince hath done me is already made publick all over the East I cannot sufficiently acknowledge his Civility but that I am extreamly vexed that the King of France my good Friend should propose so difficult a thing unto me wherewith I am not in the least acquainted that I refer my self to the Wisdom of the most Christian King that he himself may judge of the importance and difficulty which occur in so nice a matter as the change of a Religion received and followed throughout my whole Kingdom without interruption during the pace of two thousand two hundred twenty nine years After all The Motives that keep the King of Siam firm in his Religion it is strange to me that the King of France my good Friend should so much concern himself in an Affair that relates to God wherein it would seem God does not at all interest himself but leaves it wholly to our Discretion For would not the true God that made Heaven and Earth and all things that are therein and hath given them so different natures and inclinations when he gave to Men like Bodies and Souls if he had pleased have also inspired into them the same sentiments for the Religion they ought to follow and for the Worship that was most acceptable to him and make all Nations live and die in the same Laws That Order amongst Men and that Vnity in Religion depending absolutely on Divine Providence who could as easily introduce it into the World as the diversity of Sects that in all times have been established in it ought not one to think that the true God takes as great pleasure to be honoured by different Worships and Ceremonies as to be Glorified by a prodigious number of Creatures that Praise him every one in their own way Would that Beauty and Variety which we admire in the order of Nature be less admirable in the supernatural Order or less beseeming the Wisdom of God However it be continued his Majesty since we know that God is the absolute Master of the World and that we are perswaded that nothing comes to pass contrary to his will I wholly resign my Person and Dominions into the Arms of the Divine Mercy and Providence and with all my heart obtest his eternal Wisdom to dispose thereof according to his good will and pleasure So that I most expresly command you to tell that Ambassador that I shall omit nothing that lies in my power to cherish the Royal friendship of the most Christian King and instead of complying with the means that he hath proposed to me I shall take such care during the time

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 P●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. ●vache Marine Cerafte ou Serpent Corm● Cameleon du Cap de Bonne Esperan●e Peti● 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 Etranger● 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