Tamberlan the Scythian who overcame all Asia and took Bajazet the Ottoman Emperor Prisoner putting him into an Iron Cage against the Bars of which he beat out his brains When Tamberlain had taken him Prisoner he was brought before him who fixing his Eyes upon him fell a laughing Bâ—…jazet being highly offended feircely say'd to him Laugh not at my Fortune Sir but know it is God that disposes of Kingdoms and Empires and the same may happen to you to morrow that has befaln me to day To which â—…amerlain replyed I know this as well as you nor do I laugh at your misfortunes but am thinking that certainly these Kingdoms and Empires are very contemptible things in the eyes of God since he gives them to such inconsiderable Persons as we are you a deformed one eyed man and I pitiful lame Creature The Mogol is the General Heir to all those to whom he gives Pensions and his will is a Law in the decision of his subjects affairs and therefore they carry the Names of their Imployments and not of the Lands which they enjoy Now because of this Barbarous tho' Ancient Custom in the late Mogols Reign one of the Ancient Governours being very Rich and finding himself near Death thinking upon this unreasonable Law which oft renders the Wife of a Nobleman and her Children poor and miserable in an Instant He secretly distributed all his great Estate to indigent Gentlemen and poor Widdows filling his Trunks with Old Iron old Shoes Rags and bones Locking and Sealing them close saying they were Goods belonging to the Mogol before whom they were brought after his death and opened in his presence before his Lords that all saw this fine stuff which so discomposed the Mogol that he rose and went away in a great fury He is able to bring 100000 Horse into the Field but the Foot are inconsiderable Chah Iehan the Father of the present Emperor left behind him about 500000 Livers besides the Rich Throne aforementioned The present Emperor or Mogol is called Aureng-zeb having usurpt the kingdom from his Father upon this occasion This great King having reigned 40 Years with much clemency and Justice in his declining Age fancied a Young Lady of extraordinary beauty not above 13 Years Old And because the strength of nature would not permit him to satisfy his Passion he took certain Provocatives which were so hot that he fell into a distemper which had almost killed him This obliged him to shut himself up in a strong Fortress together with his Women for 2 or 3 Months During this time he seldom appeared to his People and then at a great distance which made them believe he was dead He had 4 Sons and 2 Daughters whom he loved all alike making his Sons Governours or Vice Roys of four of the principal Provinces in his Kingdom During this false report of his Death Dara his eldest Son continued with him But soon after they raised Armys and fought against one another And after many Battels and much Bloodshed Aurengzeb the Third Son having destroyed his Three Brethren mounted the Throne keeping his Father Prisoner Some time after he sent to his Father for some of his Jewels that he might appear before his People with the same magnificence his Predecessors had done Chah-Iehan taking his request for an Affront fell into such a rage that he continued mad for some days and had like to have died upon it he called several times for a Mortar and Pestle to beat all his Jewels to Powder rather than his Son should have them but Begum Saheb his Eldest Daughter throwing her self at his feet by virtue of that Criminal power she had over him as being both his Daughter and his Wife kept him from it more out of design to preserve the Jewels for her self than her Brother to whom she was a Mortal Enemy For this reason when Aureng-zeb ascended the Throne he had only one Jewel on his Bonnet and as a Penance for so many Crimes he would not eat wheaten Bread Flesh nor Fish but fed upon Barley Bread Herbs and Sweat Meats But Chajehan his Father dying in 1666. finding himself rid of an object that reproached his Tyranny he began to enjoy himself with more delight receiving his Sister Begum into favour and calling her Cha Begum or Princess Queen a Woman of excellent accomplishments and able to govern an Empire and had her Father and Brothers taken her Counsel Auren-zeb had never been King He had another Sister called Râ—…uchenara Begum who always took his part and sent him all the Gold and Silver she could procure when she heard he had taken Arms in recompence whereof he promised when he came to be King to give her the Title of Cha Begum and that she should fit upon a Throne all which he performed and they lived lovingly together This Princess having secretly conveyed a handsom young man into her Apartment could not let him out so privately after she had quite tired him but the King had notice thereof The Princess to prevent the shame ran to the King and in a pretended fright told him there was a man got into the Haram even to her very Chamber who designed either to have kill or Rob her That such an accident was never before known and that it concerned the safety of his Royal Person and he would do well to punish the Eunuchs who kept the Guard that night The King ran instantly with a great number of Eunuchs so that the poor Young Man had no way to escape but by leaping out at a Window into the River that runs by the Pallace Walls a multitude of people ran out to seize him the King commanding they should do him no harm but carry him to the Officer of Justice yet he happily escaped and has not been since heard of It is an Ancient custom among the Heathen Indians that the Husband happening to dye the Wife can never marry again so when he is dead she retires to bewail him shaves her hair and lays aside all her ornaments taking off her Arms and Legs the Braccelets her Husband put on when he espoused her in token of her submission and being chained to him and all her life after she lives despised yea worse than a Slave in the House where she was formerly Mistress This causes them rather to dye with their Husbands than live in such Contempt the Bramins or Priests perswading them that after Death they shall meet him again in the other World with greater advantage Yet can no Woman burn her self without leave from the Governour of the Place who being a Mehometan and abhorring this execrable custom of self Murther does often deny it Some women are so offended thereat that they spend the rest of their lives in works of Charity Some sit on the Road Boyling Pulse in Water and giving the Liquor to Travellers to drink others hold Fire ready in their hands to light their Tobacco others make vows to eat nothing but
Elephants Teeth Lead Amber Looking-Glasses Sizars Knives Beads Bracelets Feathers Coral Quicksilver Vermillion Allom Brimstone and many others For which they Import all sorts of Spices Cotton-yarn Callicoes Pintadoes Tamerinds Sanders Spikenard Bezoar Alloes Mirrhe Rubarb Opium Frankincense Cassia Borax Calamus Mirabolans Green Ginger Sugars Sugar Candy Camphire Sandal Wood Benjamin Musk Civet Ambergreece Rice Indico Silks both Raw and Wrought Salt Petre Precious Stones of several sorts Pearl Mother of Pearl Gold Silver Christal Cornelian Rings Agats Lacqure Furrs and Skins of Wild Beasts Porcelane Copper China Roots Tea Sanguis Draconis China Wares of divers sorts with several other Commodities and Drugs Of Ispahan or Spawhawn and Gambroon in the Kingdom of Persia. DEsigning to give some Account of Persia wherein these Factories are setled I shall begin with Ispahan This is the Capital City of all Persia and the Residence of the King being in the Center of his Empire scituate in a great Plain which extends 3 ways 15 or 20 Leagues healthy and pleasant beautified with stately Pallaces delicious Gardens magnificent Piazza's and wealthy Bazars or Market-places only the Streets are narrow and dark to prevent the burning Rays of the Sun and annoyed with Loads of Ordure and Filth In the Summer dusty and in the Winter dirty In this City the East-India Company have a Factory as also at Bussora Gambroon or Gomrow is a City of great Commerce guarded with 2 Castles wherein are planted 80 Brass Cannon The Air is so hot and unwholsome that no Stranger can live there above 3 or 4 Months in the Year but retire to the Mountains 2 or 3 days Journey off All Nations that Traffick upon the Indian Seas and the Land Caravans carry Commodities thither and bring from thence Velvets Raw Silk and other Persian Goods This City of Gombroon where the English have a Factory is risen upon the Ruins of Ormus as you will hear which besng once the Staple of the Eastern World and where we once had a famous Factory I shall give some account of it Ormus is an Island in the Persian Gulf about 20 Miles in compass Stony and full of Rocks and in a manner barren of all Necessaries except Salt wherewith the very Rocks are covered and of Salt Stone many Houses built So destitute of all things fitting for the Life of Man that they had their Victuals yea the Water they drank from the adjoining Countreys the Summer so hot that the People rest in Caves covered with Wood and stand or sit in Water up to the Chin and have Loopholes in their Houses to let in the Wind yet in regard of the Scituation it was one of the richest Empories in the World the Wealth of Persia and India being brought thither and conveyed hence by Water to the River Euphrates and so by Boats or on Camels Backs to Aleppo Alexandria Tripoly and thence dispersed into all the Countries of the Mediterranean Sea The only City was of the same name with the Island founded 700 years ago by Mahomet Danku descended from the Kings of Saba in Arabia Felix who with many Families of the Sabeans passed over the Streights into Carmenia and the Isles adjoining and liking the Scituation of this Island built this City in it which he called Ormus or Armuzium the name of the Promontory wherein it lies It was seated at one end of the Isle about 2 Miles in compass well built with a fair Market place some Churches and a well fortified Castle furnished for a Siege by reason of its wealth and resort of Merchants grown to such esteem that it gave occasion to this distich Si terrarum Orbis quaequa patet Annulus esset Illius Ormusium Gemma decusque foret Were all the World a Ring this Isle alone Might of that Ring be thought to be the Stone It was first under its own King whose Dominion extended also to some part of the Continent on either side and over all the rest of the Islands within the Gulf His revenue was of no great yearly due till the coming of the Portugals thither by whom it was discovered under the Conduct of Albukerque in 1509. Who having fortified some part of it for their own defence made it the Staple of Trade for Indian Merchandize which so inricht the same that the Revenues of those Kings though Vassals and Tributaries to the Portugals amounted to an Hundred and Forty Thousand Seriffs yearly In this flourishing state it stood till 1622. when Abbas the Sultan of Persia having received some affronts from the Portuguess or desirous to remove the Trade from Ormus to some Port of his own gave Order to Emangoli Chan the Duke of Shiras to besiege it with Fifteen Thousand Men Who despairing of prevailing by his Land Forces only furnished himself with Ships and Cannon of some English Merchants to whom he promised many things which he never performed For being once Master of the City he utterly destroyed it removing the Canon to Lar the Wealth thereof to his own Treasury at Shiras and the Materials of the Houses to Gombroon the Portuguess and Christian Natives passing over to Muskat in Arabia Felix Since which though the English Captains that ventured in it were disappointed of the Rewards they expected yet so much Honour hath been given by the King of Persia to the English Nation that the Agent who resides at Gombroon takes Custom of all Strangers who Traffick thither The Religion of the Persians With the Life and Doctrines of Mahomet the Grand Impostor THE Persians are generally Mahometans of the Sophian Sect and the difference and hatred is so great between them and the Turks though both own Mahomet for their Law-giver that they are absolutely irreconcileable Now because this horrible Impostor has infatuated so great a part of the World with his blasphemous Dotages I will here give a breif Account of his Life and also of his Doctrine as it is comprehended in his Holy Book as they call it or the Alcoran Mahomet the Son of Abdalla an Idolatrous Pagan was born after his Fathers death at Iaâ—…hrip an obscure Village of Arabia Foelix but now become a City called Medina Talnahi or the Town of the Prophet to which a multitude of Mahometans go in Pilgrimage every Year His Mother named Hemina was a perverse Jewess both by Birth and Religion who dying when he was but 2 Years old left him to the caâ—…e of his Uncle Abdal Muâ—…alib He unable to give him any other Education than the Irreligion and Ignorance of his Countrey afforded him sold him at 10 Years of Age to the Ishmaelites after the barbarous Customs of the Arabians who exposing him to Sale in the open Market he was bought by one Abdal 〈◊〉 wealthy Merchant By him he was imployed as a Slave in all Servile Offices till observing his great Wit and fitness for better Services he at last used him as his Factor sending him with his Camels and Loads of Merchandize into Syria Persia
Men but Two lost Savagi now Acts as King and secures himself in the mountains where the Mogol is not able to attack him Caambaia is 3 Miles from the River Indus and about 3 Miles in Compass one of the neatest and best Built Citys in all the East and called the Indian Grand Cairo for its Greatness Traffick and Fertility of soil and so populous as to contain an hundred and thirty thousand Families Here they cut the Agats that come from other Countreys into several sorts of shapes and in the Suburbs they make Indico Here the East-India Company had a Factory the tydes are so swift that a Horse at full speed cannot keep pace with the Waves but the Sea and the Trade is fallen away from it Swalley is more South and about a Mile from the Sea but gives name to a large Capacious Bay where the Ships ride that Trade to Surat from which it is about ten Mile distant Maslipatan MAslipatan or Metchlapatam is a great City the Houses whereof are only Wood Built at a distance from each other It stands by the Sea and the Honourable East-India Company have a Factory here This being the most famous Road for Ships in the Bay of Bengal from whence they Sail to Pegu Siam Ormus Sumatra and other Places of Traffick This City is in Golkonda but the Great Mogol is so much dreaded there that his Commissioner is Master thereof buying selling bringing in and sending abroad his Merchants Ships none daring to contradict him in any thing nor to demand any Customs of him Paâ—…ania is a City South from Siam and was governed many years by a Queen In 1612. Some English Men came hither with a Letter from Q. Elizabeth and a Present from the Merchants of 600 Rials of Eight The Letter was carried in great state being lay'd in a Bason of Gold lay'd on an Elephant adorned with little Flaggs Lances and Minstrils They then obtained a Grant to Trade there upon the same conditions as the Hollanders and there was an English Factory which is now removed Siam is a Kingdom The chiefest part lying between the Gulf of Siam and Bengale the Countrey is plentiful in Rice and Fruits The Forrests stored with Deer Elephants Tyâ—…ers Rhinocero's and Apes Here grew store of large Bamboo Canes under the knots of them are Ants or Emmets Nests as big as a Mans head where they preserve themselves during the Rains which continue 4 or 5 Months The King of Siam was accounted a very Rich Prince and stiled himself King of Heaven and Earth though he be tributary to the Kings of China There were Idols in his Temples Seaven foot high all of massy Gold When the King appeared all the Doors and Windows of the Houses must be shut All the People prostrating themselves on the ground not daring to look up And because no Person was to be in an higher Place then the King they within doors were bound to keep their lowest Rooms He would suffer no Barbar to come near him one of his Wives cutting his hair for him One part of his magnificence consists in his Train of 200 Elephants among which one was White which he valued so highly as to stile himself King of the white Elephant He passionately admires them accounting them his Favourites and the Ornaments of his Kingdom If an Elephant dyed he was burned with the same Funeral Pomp as a Nobleman The English had a Factory formerly in this Kingdom as well as at Armagon As for Ballasore Hugli Chuttanetti Daca Rajamell the present Honourable East India Company have Factorys in all those Places of which little more can be say'd then what has been spoken of others At the famous Port of Bombay Island the English have Built a strong â—…ort and here they Coin both Silver Copper and Tin which passes among themselves and the Villages along the Coast. The Empire and Government of the Great Mogol HAving given some account of the Forts and Factrys of the Honourable East India Company I shall subjoine a breif Relation of the Empire and Government of that Mighty Monarch The name of India is now given to the Empire of the Great Mogol and to the two Peninsula's one on this side and the other beyond Ganges with the Islands scattered in the Indian Sea which are all comprehended under the general Name of the East-Indies yea some Authors take in all the Oriental Part of Asia It is recorded that the Old Inhabitants consisted in 122 several Nations originally descended from the Sons of Noah before their Journey to the Valley of Shinaar and their attempt in Building the Tower of Babel That it was first invaded by the famous Queen Seinramis with an Army of above four Millions whom Staurobates an Indian King opposed with equal forces who overcame and slew her That the next Invasion was by Bacchus the Son of Iupiter and Hercules who by policy and force subdued them and taught them the use of Wine Oyl and the Art of Architecture After this India was invaded by Alexander the Great He vanquishing first Clophae Queen of Magaza and then King Porus both whom he took Prisoners But restoring them again their Liberty and Kingdom returned back to Babylon where he dyed of poyson After this they lived in peace under several Kings In 1587. their Countrey being discovered by the Portugals and after by the Dutch and English they have had much Traffick with them This vast Empire comprehends the greatest part of the Continent of Asia wherein are contained 37 Kingdoms As for Remains of Antiquity there are few or none the Mogols having ruined all the Ancient Buildings which according to the Ancients were 30 large Citys and 3â—…00 Walled Towns and Castles so strong as to be thought impregnable which may not be improbable if Noah first planted there after his descent from Mount Ararat not far distant from hence Since such mighty Armys were raised in those Countreys not many Years after and the Land so well Built and planted so that when Alexander had overthrown King Porus near the River Hydaspis he say'd He found greater Citys and more sumptuous Buildings in India then in all the World besides Some of the Citys that end in Pore as Meliapore Visiapore and others seem to retain the Memory of K. Porus as others in Scander the Name of Alexander The Dominions of the Great Mogol are larger then the Persians and equal to the Grand Seigniors His strength lyes in the Number of his Subjects the Vastnes of his wealth and the extent of his Empire his Revenue exceeding the Persian and the Turks both put together But the K. of Persia exceeds him in Horse Arms and warlike People His Revenue is reckoned to be about Seaven Millions and an half English money The Throne alone wherein he gives Audience is valued at near Four Millions being almost covered with Jewels Pearls and all kind of precious stones of a vast Value The present Mogol derives his Original from
A Guinean Monarch THE English Acquisitions IN GUINEA EAST-INDIA CONTAINING First The several Forts and Castles of the Royal African Company from Sally in South Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa Viz. Iames Fort in the River of Gambo Sherborow in York Island Sierra Leona in Bence Island Dickeys Cove Commenda Cape Coast Castle Fort Royal. Annamabo Winnebah Accra Secondly The Forts and Factories of the Honourable East-India Company in Persia India Sumatra China c. Viz. Spawhawn and Gambroon In Persia. Fort St. George Fort St. David Conimeere Cudaloor Porto Novo Madapollam Metchlapatam Pettipolee On the Coast of Coromandel Carwar Callicut Surrat Bombay Island Ballasore Hugly Chuttanetti Daca Rhajama On the Co. of Mallabar Atcheen and York Fort. In Sumatra Amoy Canton and Tonqueen In China c. WITH An Account of the Inhabitants of all these Countries their Religion Government Trade Marriages Funerals strange Customs c. Also the Birds Beasts Serpents Monsters and other strange Creatures found there Intermixt with divers Accidents and notable Remarks With Pictures Likewise A Description of the Isle of St Helena where the English usually refresh in their Indian Voyages By R. B. London Printed for Nath. Crouch at the Bell in the Poultry near Cheapside 1700. TO THE READER HAving already endeavoured to Inform my Countreymen of the Grandeur of the English Monarchy by giving them an Account of the Kingdoms of England Scotland and Ireland and likewise of his Majestys Dominions in America the acceptance they met with hath incouraged me to discover to them what many have only heard of by discourse namely the English Acquisitions in the 2 other Quarters of the VVorld Africa and Asia In the first the Royal African Company being by their Charter from King Charles 2d dated January 2. 1662. Incorporated the Limits of their Trade were from Sally in South Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope In which large Tract of Land they have Erected several Forts Factories and Settlements for securing their Commerce which is very considerable in those Parts In Asia the English began their Discoveries just an hundred years since in 1600. under Sr. James Lancaster with 4 Ships only And soon after the Industry of others had such success that the Merchants Trading thither were likewise Incorporated by Charter This Honourable East-India Company by the prudent management of their affairs setled Forts and Factorys in Twenty four several noted Places Of which our unkind Neighbours deprived us of some and others were Deserted for Conveniency the names of those abandoned are as follows Ormus and Jasques in the Persian Gulf. Cambaja and Agra in the Great Mogols Countrey Armagon Pattana and Siatu on the Coast of Coromandell and Continent of Asia Ticko Jambo Prianan on the Isle of Sumatra Bantam Jaccatra and Japarra on the Isle of Jara Socodona and Bornermasa on the Island Borneo Macassar on the Isle of Celebs Polleroon in the Isle of Banda Firando in Japan Amboina Hitto and other Molucco Islands So that now the English possess only those mentioned in the Title Page the Account of all those Places with the Religion Government and Manners of the Inhabitants and the Strange Creatures therein cannot but be diverting I have also given a brief Description of the Isle of St. Helena and the wonderful Voyage from thence of Don Domingo Gonsales the Little Spaniard which ingenious and well contrived Fancy would have been lost if not here retreived These with many other pleasant Relations therein will I hope procure as fair Quarter for this as those formerly published have met with from the Friends of R. B. The Acquisitions of the Royal African Company in Guinea and the several Forts and Castles belonging to them from Sally in South Barbary to the Cape of Good Hope in Africa With an account of the Natives of those Countrys their Religion Government Trade Wars Marriages Funerals and Strange Customs Also the Birds Beasts Monsters Serpents c. found there Intermixt with divers Accidents and Notable Remarks THat Tract of Land called Guinea in Africa comprehends 700 Leagues from Cape Verd in 14 Degrees N. Latitude to Cape Consalvo in the first Degree of South Latitude The Portugals were the first that ranged this Shore and having Intelligence of the Commodities and manner of Trading the Natives by fair means and force got footing on the Sea-coasts building Forts and placing Garrisons and Factories in several places and found such a Golden Trade that they called some Coasts thereof by that name This was an inducement as what will not Gold attract to their further search all along to the Cape of Good Hope and thereby consequently to the East-Indies The fair quarter and usage the Inhabitants received from the Portugals already setled there incouraged them to exchange their Commodities which Trade according to the Custom of that Kingdom was maintained by Factors upon the King of Portugals particular account in every Port and Town as if he intended the profits of Merchandizing should defray the charges of his Conquests and Garrisons furnishing the Natives with Salt Iron Tin Copper Basons Knives Cloth Linnen and other European Goods and receiving in exchange Cattle Corn Rice and the like but chiefly Gold in great abundance both in Sand and melted Ingots which gave Life and Briskness to the further Discovery of those Countreys and continuance of that Trade to this day though not so considerable as formerly The English and other Nations desirous to share in this Rich Trade in short time Sailed thither and because they had no Forts to Protect their Persons and Goods from the Portugals and treachery of the Inhabitants they were compelled to Anchor along the Coasts near the greatest Towns and signifying to the Negroes what Wares they had brought by their plausible demeanor they at length imboldened them to come aboard their Ships and bring their Gold the manner of which Trade was very different from that of any other Countrey For betimes in the Morning the wind being then generally off the Shore and the weather calm the Natives came aboard in their Canoes and Scuâ—…es to Traffique some for themselves and some as Factors for others carrying at their Girdles a Purse wherein were several small Clouts or Papers containing the Gold belonging sometimes to ten several Men which though all of the same weight and goodness yet they readily distinguisht and having made their bargains for Cloth Linnen or the like at Noon they return'd with the Seabrize again to the Shore and beside the agreement these Factors had some small thing for themselves in reward for their Brokage but in process of time the Hollanders frequenting these Coasts and being well acquainted with the manner of the English Traffique and coming into the same places where the English Traded and were known they soon spoiled this Golden Trade by their sinister and indirect dealing for Anchoring with the English whom they found to have a better Trade than themselves they
at his success for assuring his new Dominion sought to win the minds of the vanquished to him and to contract a firm League with the Lords of his own Countrey But scarce were the minds of the Nobility united when Miminique Son of Manimassah with a great Army of Gala's and others make War upon him of whose design his Father was not ignorant having forgot the kindness received from Flonikerrys Arms in settling him in his new acquired Dominions Flonikerry drew together his Forces to whom the Nobles joining theirs he formed a considerable Army wherewith marching toward the Enemy they came to a Battle wherein by the multitude of their Enemies they were at first put to a disorderly retreat which Flonikerry who was of an undaunted Spirit perceiving digged with his hand a hole in the ground and put his Knees in it with a resolution either to die there or to remain Conquerour so after a long and sharp contest being even covered with Arrows he was slain on the spot However his Men to revenge their Princes death rallied and gave a fresh charge with such fury that they turned the Fortune of the day and became sole Masters of the Field The death of Flonikerry was kept secret till they sent for his Brother Zillimanque to take his charge who accepting the same pursued the Victory and drew near the Enemies Camp which he soon surprized and gave as a spoil to his Souldiers After which he marched farther the People all along yielding subjection without blows whereby they soon became Masters of the whole Countrey and gain'd the reputation of a Mighty People After which he was poisoned as was thought leaving behind him several Sons who were young and not capable to manage their Fathers Conquests However Flansire his eldest was admitted Successor during whose Minority his Uncle Iemmah undertook the Government but Flansire growing to years took the Royal Authority into his own hands and to shew that he inherited as well his Fathers Valour as Countreys resolves to inlarge his bounds yet farther and to that end marcht with his Forces over the River Galinas or Hens taking all the adjacent places as far as Sierra Leona and placing Garrisons therein having settled his new Conquests he return'd to his own Native Principality where he spent a good part of his Life in peace and quietness when on a sudden there came News from Sierra Liona that Kandaqualla his Governour was driven out thence and forced to fly with all his People to the Islands of Bannaneo not being able to withstand Falma of Dogo who with a mighty Force invaded them Flansire startled at this intelligence and knowing nothing more necessary than expedition sent to the Lords his Substitutes to raise an Army and meet him at an appointed Randezvouz but they having made a private Confederacy with Gamina their Master Flansires Brother neglected and slighted his Commands Flansire ignorant of this Combination leaving the Government of his Kingdom Wives and Children to his treacherous Brother Gamina marched with his eldest Son Flambore the present King of Quoia not doubting the Fidelity of his Provincials He went first by Land to the River of Hens and from thence in Canoes to the Isles of Bananes to take with him his People who were driven from Sierra Leona and so bringing them back thither he began a sharp War with Falma This Falma had been formerly in great favour with the King of Dogo or Hondo but having debauched one of his Wives the King was so offended that not content it should as usual be bought off with Gifts or Slaves he caused his Ears to be out off and banished him his presence but length of time so wore out the Kings Fury that Falma was again admitted to Court where he soon began to shew his Insolence and at length addrest the King in these Terms Sir King considering the wickedness committed against you my Lord and Master I am obliged to thank you for your gracious Sentence by which I am punished whereby every one that looks upon me derides and scorns me and the rather because the punishment is unusual and the like offence customarily bought off with Goods and Slaves Now as you were pleased to punish me so I desire the like offence in others may be punished in the same manner It may happen that some of the Kings Servants or Subjects may fall into the same Lapse but if this Sentence be either denied or not performed I shall complain against my Lord the King in the Ways and in the Woods to the Jannanen and Belli that is to all the Spirits and Demons The King having heard this audacious Speech notwithstanding this seeming Threat determined that the punishment inflicted on him should not follow upon all But yet to pacifie him he made him General of an Army to recover Sierra Leona out of the hands of Kandaqualla who presided there for Flansire To repel this Invader Flansire as we said coming to Sierra Leona with an Army and making sharp War at length by the help of some Europeans he fell upon the Town of Falmahah and with Axes cutting down the Treewall at last they forced an entrance and set the Houses on fire whose fury soon increased to an impossibility of being quenched whereupon Falma unable to resist fled whom young Flambore pursued and though he mist him yet got great Reputation the People stiling him The Pursuer of Falma Flansire having reconquered these Countries and setled Kandaqualla retreated with his Forces intending to return to his Wife and Children But on the way he had notice that his Brother Gamana had usurped his Kingdom killed all his Sons he could meet with taken his Wives for himself and had set up his Residence at a convenient place near the River of Hens to intercept and hinder his Brothers approach this Rebellion of his Brother was attended with the Invasion of Manou who dwelt near Cape Miserado They fell into his Countrey at Cape de Monto where they burnt the Town and led away all they met with for Slaves Flansire understanding these mischiefs marched toward the River Maqualbary with all speed complaining to the Kanou and Iananies that is to God and the Angels of his distress in these words To you it is known that my Father left me rightful Heir to his Kingdom which falls to me by the Laws of the Land seeing I was the eldest You likewise know that my Brother hath rebelled against me and hath set himself up to be Lord be you Judges between him and me in this intended Fight and if the Cause be unjust that he manages against me let the mischief fall upon his own head Then he passed with all his Souldiers over the River where the Armies met and his Brother with great numbers of men being slain he obtained a compleat Victory but still kept the Field to be ready against any other appearing Rebels his Son Flambore went with a Squadron of Souldiers into the Woods
a Cloud they intercept the Sun and having eaten the fruits and leaves they leave their spawn behind who are worse than themselves devouring the very barks of the naked Trees Orosius says that one time after they had done all this mischief they did worse by their deaths for being carried by a strong wind into the Sea and again cast up dead on the Shore their putrified Carcases caused such a Pestilence that in Numidia only there died eight hundred thousand and on the Sea coast near Utica and Carthage two hundred thousand In some places they forced the People to leave the Countrey it being so desart and destroyed that they left nothing to sustain them and lookt as if it had snowed by reason of the Trees without barks The fields of Maiz were as if trodden down after a Tempest of Rain and Thunder they lay above two yards thick upon the Rivers Bank In the River Nilus in the time of Mauricius the Emperour at the place where Grand Cario now standeth a Giant-like Monster was seen from the bottom of his belly upward he appeared like a Man with Flaxen hair frowning Countenance and strong Limbs After he had continued in the view of multitudes three hours there came out of the VVater another like a VVoman with a comely Face part of her black hair hanging down and part gathered into a knot her face was fair rosie Lips fingers and breasts well composed the rest of her body hid under water from Morning to Sun-set they fed their greedy Eyes with this spectacle which then sunk down into the water and was never seen more X. Acra THis is a Strong Fort erected all of Stone and consists of 4 Palankers 25 Guns and 70 white men besides Blacks Mr. Ogilby in his History of Africa names several other Places belonging to the Royal African Company as Madre Bomba Cormantyn Ianasia Eniacham Rio Nuno Rio Grande Serbro Cestos Achin Auta Ardra Benin with Old and New Calabar But I am assured that these mine aforementioned are all the Castles and Forts of which they are possest at this time This Countrey unknown to the Ancients is properly a part of Negroland and called Guinea from the heat hereof The Air is so extream hot and unwholsome especially to strangers many of whom live but a short time after their arrival that were it not for the Rains and Coolness of the Nights it would be altogether uninhabitable It is governed by several Sovereigns the Chief of whom is called Emperor of Guinea to whom divers other Kings and Princes are subject The Capital City is Arda Next to him is the King of Benin esteemed a powerful Prince having several large Territories subject to him Upon the Death of her Husband in the kingdom of Benin the Wife is absolutely subject to her own Son if she have any and cannot be sold for a Slave without leave from the King A late Author gives the following List of the Forts Factories and Places of Trade wherein the Royal African Company are concerued on the Coast of Guinea On the Golden Coast. James Fort in an Island in the River Gambia Sierra Leona upon Bence Island On the Coast of Malaguette Sherborow in York Island Druwâ—…n On the Quaqua Coast Rio de St. Andro Ieaque Ieaque C St Apolonia Aymo in Comore Bay Succundo Cabo Corso Fredecht Burg sold to us by the Danes Annishan unfortifi'd Anmamabou Aggau of no defence In the Kingdom of Loango Moango Mulemba Cabenda The Captivity and Deliverance of John Watts an Englishman from Slavery under the King of the Buckamores and the King of Calanach near Old Mallabar in Guinea HAving met with the following Relation I shall conclude the Account of Guinea therewith In 1668 An English Ship bound for Guinea Sailing to Old Calabar they entred a River called the Cross-River into Pirats-Island after they had taken in their Negro's and were ready to Sail the Master called up the Boatswain and three Men more to look out the Copper Bars that were left and carry them on Shore to sell The Boatswain with his small Company desired they might have Arms not believing they were so harmless a People as reported they took with them three Musquets and a Pistol and so rowed toward the Shore but their Match unhappily fell into the Water and the Ship being fallen down lower toward the Sea quite out of sight and they ashamed to go back without dispatching their business Iohn Watt's went ashore to the first House to light the match but before he was twenty Rods from the Water side he was seized on by two Blacks or rather Tawny-Moores and by them haled half a Mile up into the Countrey and thrown with great violence upon his Belly and so compelled to lye till they stript him and more Company coming they were so eager for his poor Canvas Apparel that some they tore off others they cut off and with that several pieces of his flesh to his intolerable pain With these Rags they made little Aprons to cover their Privities clothing being very scarce there The Boatswain seeing Watts carried away resolved with his two Companions to venture their Lives to have him again and arming themselves they were suddenly beset with a dosen men in several Canoes but they valiantly maintained their Boat three hours for after two or three Musquets were discharged they defended themselves with their Oars and Boat hooks The Boatswain received a mortal wound in his Groin and fell down in the Boat the other two adventured into the River endeavouring by swimming to escape the Hands of these cruel Infidels but the Negro's with their swift Canoes soon overtook them and brought them on Shore to the other They took the Boatswain out of the Boat and instead of endeavouring to preserve what Life remained in him one of them with a keen Weapon instantly cut off his Head And while he was yet reeking in his Blood they in a barbarous manner cut off pieces of Flesh from his Buttocks Thighs Arms and Shoulders and broil d them on the Coals and with much impatience eat it before his Companions Faces to their great astonishment About a Fortnight after one of the Company fell sick And instead of being his Physicians to cure him they were his Butchers to Murther him cutting off his Head and broiling and eating his Flesh rejoicing exceedingly at this rich Banquet Ten days after the other fell sick whom they used in the very same manner Watts continued still in Health though the Natives daily expected such another Banquet because it seems it is not their Custom to kill those that are well and so resolved to sâ—…ll him his Master was free to discourse especially since he had before learned the Tata Language in the West-Indies which is easily attained being comprehended in few words and all the Negro's speak it He began to discourse his Master of the reason of their cruelty who told him he should be content for if he were not
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
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. 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