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A45281	An account of the famous Prince Giolo, son of the King of Gilolo, now in England with an account of his life, parentage, and his strange and wonderful adventures, the manner of his being brought for England : with a description of the island of Gilolo, and the adjacent isle of Celebes, their religion and manners / written from his own mouth.	Hyde, Thomas, 1636-1703.; Giolo, Prince of Gilolo, b. ca. 1662.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3872; ESTC R1979	23,672	30

The Lively Portraiture of Prince Giolo Son to the King of Moangis or Gilolo lying under y e Equator in y e Long of 〈◊〉 20 Min. a fruitfull Gsland in Spices c. This Prince is curiously painted ouer all his Body except Face hands Feet is now living and to be seen in London to the admiration of all Artists AN ACCOUNT OF THE Famous Prince Giolo SON Of The King of Gilolo Now in ENGLAND With an Account of his Life Parentage and his strange and Wonderful Adventures THE Manner of his being brought for England With a Description Of the Island of Gilolo and the Adjacent Isle of Celebes Their Religion and Manners Written from his own Mouth Licens'd and Enter'd according to Order LONDON Printed and Sold by R. Taylor by Amen-Corner 1692. An Account OF THE Famous Prince GIOLO c. THis famous Prince that has been so often seen by the curious with a great deal of admiration though they could behold nothing but his outside so taking was the rarity and niceness of the figures printed on his body But it troubled some of the more sensible that for want of an interpreter none could consider him within both as to know from his own mouth the fortunes he had run through and what his sentiments were of his present condition from whence they might make a probable Guess whether he were really a Man of that Birth which those that were new proprietors of his person gave out or else some meaner slave who gain'd the Reputation of a Prince in his easy Captivity for his masters advantage Some few weeks since a Dutch Merchant that had resided sometime at the Dutch factory in the Isle of Celebes which is the next Island to the West of Gilolo the place of the Nativity of this Prince happen'd to go with some other friends and acquaintance of his to see him and had the good fortune to have a perfection in the language of the Celebeans which the Prince also understood having been Captive there some years before he was Transported for England This accident was not a little satisfaction to a Gentleman of my acquaintance who was by chance to see him at the same time and therefore it being toward evening and the last time he should be shown that night my friend profer'd the Dutch Merchant his friends and those that showed the Prince a Collation that they might make some enquiry into the truth of his story which motion being accepted by all parties the rest of the Spectators being now gone and having a Room to themselves they proceeded to ask him some questions So soon as the Prince perceiv'd one that he could understand he seem'd a little satisfy'd for a while but then presently something Melancholy and sighed very much which the Dutch Merchant enquiring into He returned him this answer I was I confess something pleas'd after so long a Consinement of my mind as well as person to meet with one that understood me but when I thought to unbosome my thoughts and griefs to you I reflected it was but a fruitless happiness to discover that to one that had not the will to hear me for any thing but the Satisfaction of his own Curiosity without any desire for my redress Which stopt the Current of what I had to say and added to my former griefs that though I had now sound one that understood me yet I could not to any purpose discover my secret sorrows to him with any hopes of Relief and for a wise man to do an unprofitable action levels him to the Capacity of Women that little consider the consequence of their Words or Actions As soon as he had said this he held his Tongue and sighed several times with a great deal of Ardour and before the Merchant had interpreted this to the company he interrupted him and ask'd what part of his World he had been in that he spoke the language of his Enemies the Celebeans and how long he had been from thence He answered him near five years Ah then return'd the Prince you can't tell me any thing of my unhappy Princess of Tominec nor how she bears the loss of her wretched Giolo The Dutch Merchant having not that tender sympathy for the misfortunes of a lover as this discover'd the Prince to be had much ado to forbear laughing aloud but fearing that might hinder him from what he desir'd he check'd his unreasonable mirth and told him he had never been at Tominec having resided all his time in Gioan on the West-side of the Island whereas Tominec was on the East which is now call'd Sion since the King of that part was a Christian but was sorry he could not give him some information about that he ask'd As soon as he had given the Company an account of this my friend desir'd him to assure him he would take care to send to the Dutch Factory on that Island to make an enquiry about it to his satisfaction on condition he would gratify the Company by him with the Relation of his Birth and Fortunes and the Religion and Manners of his Native Country Though it be no comfort to me to refresh my Memory with the thoughts of what I was reply'd the Prince which I ought rather for my own satisfaction to endeavour to forget in my present Circumstances yet in hopes of so great a reward as to hear from my Adorable Princess I will make all my wounds bleed afresh nay and my heart too if that would satisfy you The Place of my Nativity you must know then was Moangis a City in the Noble Island of Gilolo King of which was my Father I had but one Brother nam'd Moraballo who by being ill escap'd the Misfortune that befel my Royal Father and my self This Isle of Gilolo call'd also Batachina and Moangis from the three Kingdoms which it formerly contain'd till my Fathers Predecessors subdu'd that of Moangis and joyn'd it to Gilolo It is of large extent being much bigger than Z●ilon It abounds with a delicious Food call'd Rice and Wild Hens and on the Sea-coasts we find a sort of Shell-fish which in tast much resembles your English Mutton We have a Tree too of great use and beauty which affords us Bread and Drink for of the pith we make our Bread and of the juice we make a most delicious Liquor much beyond any I have tasted since my loss of my own Country the Name of this Tree is Saga Our People are tall and proportionable at least in our eyes our Women are the most beautiful in the world except the Princess of Tominec the Mistress of my Soul You Christians have a Factory in the Town of Batchame with a Fort to defend it As for the Religion we profess 't is of late years something vary'd from what it was of old when our progenitors ador'd many Gods but now we have receiv'd a new Prophet that brought us to the Knowledge of one God which

nine thousand Years God divided into three parts and holding up three of his Fingers ordered the Devil to choose which he would The meaning was what time he would choose to exercise his cruelty in against Mankind The Devil after a seeming pause chose the middle finger of the Three and consequently the middle Time Wherefore by the fatal necessity of this decree all humane affairs are subject to inconstancy nor can there be any settled state of things for any long duration In the first time Justice Moderation Temperance and Piety to God and man flourished when the world enjoyed Peace and Tranquility From which by the temptation of the Devil through Fase Peace and Pride falling and rebelling against God the Devil is permitted to infect and disturb the world with Vices contrary to those former Vertues as Injustice Violence Pride Lust and Avarice And all manner of Impieties both to God and Man swell to the greatest exorbitancies and consequently the effects thereof Wars Distractions and the other scourges of God as Famine Pestilence and Desolation Which God out of his infinite mercy and pity to Mankind and the World will not suffer to rage for ever but bridles the fury and malicious envy of the Devil and interposes a breathing time of happiness and tranquility Of the twelve thousand Years first decreed for the duration of the World nine hundred sixty-two remain when we expect a day of Judgement of all Mankind and the dissolution of the World And then as soon as all the dead shall have risen and received their doom the Righteous shall immediately enjoy the Heavenly Vision of God and be placed in glorious mansions proportionable to their good deeds and merits on earth and the Wicked having in their souls received condign punishment for their Sins in those several torments which were appointed them by the Angels Mehur and Vumudsittur shall at the day of Judgement also rise and their sins by the infinite mercy of God be pardoned and themselves be admitted into certain outward mansions where they shall at a distance be blessed with the Heavenly Vision only they shall be distinguished from the Just by certain Spots which shall be mark't in their Foreheads At the day of Judgement the Devil and all his Angels shall be Judged and their Kingdom utterly destroyed The World was created in this order The Heavens in forty five dayes The Water in sixty The Earth in seventy five The Trees in thirty The Creatures in eighty Man in seventy five dayes Yaxatend was the Name of our Prophet from whose death we begin our Aera which is now 1052. Years We Believe also That to do any Injury to another is a hainous crime and not to be pardoned without an equivolent Reparation That Ingratitude out-weighs at Pul 〈◊〉 almost all ones good Works especially if we presevere in it till our death We Believe a private sin against another more hainous than a publick one And that he that betrayes under the name of a Friend is certainly damn'd to the lowest of the seven Hells I have mentioned For our duty to God we are not oblig'd to many Prayers only that we make all our Actions such Fine words are not likely to prevail with God when the actions contradict his pleasure Praises we are bound to thrice every day for the benefits of preservation The past night for Food and Preservation the past day Priests we have but three in the Island one to each Kingdom who is employ'd continually in Praising the God of Heaven and Earth without any regard to the goods of this Life and when any publick benefit accrues to the whole Kingdom then this Minister appears in a pompous and solemn manner and returns in the presence of the chief of the Nation Thanks as publick as the favour Receiv'd As for other occasions we are every one his own Priest And our Parents are obliged under pain of death to instruct us in the Law of our Prophet so that when we appear before the Judges of the Country we may be able to give a full account of all its parts We are of Opinion that as Ingratitude weighs heavier than an abundance of good Works so Generosity and the doing good to those in distress will countervail all the ill Actions of our Life provided they be not injurious to our Neighbours in wronging them in their Estates Possessions and Reputations 'T is an offence against our Laws also for the same are the Laws of our Religion as of our State for any Parent for any interest whatever to force the Inclinations of their Children that so as they have no other bond but Love the Husbands and Wives might continue together during their Life with Pleasure and Content and beget Children that should inherit the Virtues and Beauties of their Parents who are led to Generation by the Dictates of Love not Duty Dissimulation in Love is accounted an unpardionable fault and which by our Laws is Punishable when discovered which after possession cannot well be hid Parents are obliged to give Satisfaction for all the Crimes their Children commit till they die because if they gave them a severe and virtuous Education they would not be subject to such extravagances and Masters that are cruel to their Servants are obliged to be publick Slaves for a proportionable time till they are better instructed in the chances of Human Life Servants that are refractory and disobedient are put to death as are all Rebels without any Tryal every Man being free to destroy such disturbers of the Publick Peace Thus Sir I have given you an account of the State and my Birth and Place of Nativity and wish you cou'd dispense with a more particular account of my Life because it will set before my eyes the remembrance of what I have been and render my present Captivity the more insupportable The Merchant gave the Company a particular account of all the Prince had said which my Friend took in Short-hand and then begged him to press Giolo to give them an account of his Life and adventures since by his unwillingness to relate them made them suppose contain'd something extraordinary and surprizing The Dutch-man tho' not so desirous of hearing any more as the rest was yet prevailed upon to solicite the common satisfaction which with some importunities he obtained And thus the Prince begun I have already informed you that the Isle of Gilolo is divided into three parts which were once three distinct Kingdoms and that my Fathers Predecessors had subdued one of the other two in the third that is called Batachina Verghad an Old Warlike Prince that had lost all his fourteen Sons in the Wars and incursions that had been made into his Country by the Kings of 〈◊〉 who had formerly great part of that Kingdom in their Possessions but by the Prowess of this Prince were driven out and after many attempts to recover their sooting there finding it to no purpose gave it over tho' in

those long Wars he had lost his Sons yet he had two Daughters one very Beautiful whom in the beginning of his resolution of casting off the Forreign Yoak was Married to my Father to joyn him to his interests whose power was sufficient to obstruct all his desires of freedom She bore my self and another Brother that I hope lives still to keep up the Honour of our Kingdom and one Daughter Beautiful as her self had been but not so sweet and candid a humour being too much a lover of her self and revengeful not easily forgetting what she thought an injury done to her Father and my self as the sequel of my Story will make evident By that time we were grown up to Men and Womens estate the King of Batachina our Grandfather by my Mother had lost all his Sons in the Wars I have mentioned who had left no Issue among them all but one Daughter so that in all probability that Kingdom would fall to my Father in the right of his Wife upon the Death of his Father-in-Law Giolo for that was his Name and for his sake had it conferr'd upon me who was now very Old and his other Daughter died for grief of the loss of so many of her Brothers whom she tenderly loved But the Old King finding he had no Issue Male to succeed him and unwilling to have his Family and Name bury in another that was a Stranger only by the Marriage of his Daughter which Match he had not consented to had it not then been necessary for his Interest so to have done resolved to Marry again to see if he could get a Son of his own in his Old Age to inherit his Name and that Kingdom he had redeemed by the loss of so much of his own and Childrens Blood from the hands of insulting Forreigners He Marries therefore a young Beautiful Lady of but a mean extraction for the Bed of a Prince by her had none but Girls and those of a very short Life Therefore finding Fate had so Ordained it that my Father should infallibly succeed him in his Crown his Grand daughter and all being now dead he seat to have him remove to his City of residence called Batachina as the whole Kingdom was that he might in his Life-time make him acquainted with and easie to the People The time of our departure being come my Brother was to be left Vice-Roy of his Kingdoms tho' he included he also should go with him at this time to pay his respects to his Grand-father but God ordered it for his happiness that the day that we were to go he was taken ill and obliged by that to stay behind therefore my Sister and I were to accompany my Father and Mother by Sea in a small Vessel in which being invited by the calmness of the Weather he was resolved to coast along the shore to Batachina secure of any danger in the midst of so great an attendance as went along with him in several other small Boats But after the first dayes Journey when it grew towards Night my Father commanded the Master of the Vessel to steer farther out to Sea and so cut off a great nook that bent in several Miles into the Land and so before it was very late hoped to reach the Cape where he intended to go ashore and pass some days till he had dispatched some Messengers before to the Court of Giolo to inform him of his coming and if the Weather altered designed to go from thence by Land But so it was that the Heavens had decreed my misfortune and in that my Fathers Mothers tho' not my Sisters Night came farther on than the King my Father imagined and that which hapned was the rising of the Clouds and with them a Wind and Storm which bore our Vessels out to Sea farther than we desired and by the next Morning after with a great deal of pains and difficulty we had kept the Royal Vessel above Water all Night we found our selves far from any shoar and out of sight of any Land all alone without any Boat near us to bring us any relief if we should be attacqued by any Pyrate which happened soon after we began to fear it for those of the Isle of Celebes being great Pyrates happened to have a Vessel of theirs come in sight of us by the first approach of day whether driven that way by the force of the Storm or by their own uncertain rowings in search of Prize I know not but in short made up to us and soon took us and with us sail'd home to Tominec of which City they were And being come thither by the ornaments of our Flesh they perceived we were of the Royal Family and therefore presented us to the King who being a haughty proud Man had no regard to our Birth and Quality but despising us in our present misfortune used us like Slaves but he had cast an Eye of regard on my Sister whose Beauty indeed was extraordinary and daily solicited her to yield to his embraces which with some little opportunities she yielded to and was delivered from the troubles of a Captivity to live a Queen as she was born a Princess But now neither Nature nor Honour made her remember her Parents or Brother preferring a little pet she had taken against us to all the duties of a Child and Sister she rather contributed to our Misery than sought us any relief which soon broke the heart of her Father and Mother to whom I took care with my own hands to give a Decent tho' not Royal Burial But before I proceed to tell you the misfortunes of my Love it would be some ease to me to breath a little and to give you some account of the place of my Captivity where I was not confin'd as I am here from sight of the Country Tominec therefore is the Name of a City and Kingdom in the Isle of Celebes which Island is very large and rich the Soil thereof exceeding fertile the People tall and comely of a curious Ruddy Colour much given to Piracy The whole Island is Governed by many Kings and with as many Gods which is the cause of much Contention and many Quarrels The People of the Kingdom of Tominec have very little notion of a Deity so that you will find no tract of Religion among them Sacrifices and Prayers they know not They say the Earth is their Indulgent Mother who furnishes them with all things necessary for Life yet they are not contented with that but seek the increase of their Wealth as Slaves by Piracy If any one discourse to them about a God and the Mysteries of Religion they answer as if they thought it a Jest Friend thou art very eloquent and subtile I wish I could talk as well as thee Nay they say sometimes that if they should be perswaded by such Discourses their Neighbours would laugh at them yet for all this they have a Natural sentiment of some Divinity