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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and a noise which they made by clapping their hands These two Companies were drawn into ●o rings one within another The first which was the ●tmost and made up of the Men encompassed the ●econd or the ring of the women that was within ●hem both men and women danced thus in a round ●e Men turning to the right hand and the Women to he left Their way of Dancing whilst an Old Man standing in the middle with a stick in his hand beat the time and regulated their cadance Their Musick at a distance seemed to be pleasant nay and harmonious too but there was no kind of regularity in their dance or rather it was a meer confusion The Namaquas are held in great reputation amongst those People and are accounted brave Warlick The Strength Courage and Manners and Potent though their greatest Forces exceed not two thousand Men bearing Arms. They are all tall of Stature and strong have good natural sense and when any question is put to them they weigh their words well before they answer and all their answers are short and grave They seldom laugh and speak very little the Women seem to be nasty and are not near so grave as the Men. The Vbiquas are given to Thieving The third Nation are the Ubiquas They are by Profession Robbers and rob the Africans as well as Strangers Though they are not able to send five hundred Men into the Field yet it is not easie to root them out because they retreat into inaccessible Mountains The Gouriquas make the fourth Nation which is bu● of small extent The different Nations discovered by the Dutch. The Ilassiquas makes the fifth and are more numerous they are Rich and Powerful little versed in the art of War contrary to the sixth Nation I mean the Gouriquas who are great Warriours The seventh Nation are the Sousiquas and the Odquas are their Allies In the great Rivers there is a Monstrous Creature which they call a Sea-cow The Sea-cow and equals the Rhinoceros in bigness the Flesh or to say better the Lard of it is good to eat and hath a very pleasant taste I have here given you a cut of it as to Trees Plants and Flowers there are infinit● numbers of them and those very curious not only for their beauty but for their particular virtue also In the Progress they made which lasted five Months The Governor of the Cape made a Progress up into the Countrey they advanced as far North-ward as the Tropick that is to say they discovered two hundred Leagues of the Country keeping always within ten or twelve Leagues of the Western Ocean The Commander Vanderstel was there in Person accompanied with fifty eight Men well Armed His Calesh came after him and forty Waggons with twenty eight Horses three hundred Sheep and a hundred and fifty Oxen. These last carried the Baggage and drew the Waggons and the Sheep served for food to the Travellors He set out with his Company from the Cape of Good-hope about the latter end of May which is the Winter time in that Country and he chose that season that he might not want Water and Forrage in the Desarts which it behoved him to cross over They discovered some different Nations the eight and twentieth Degree of Latitude who live in a pleasant Countrey abounding in all sorts of Fruits and Animals Before they got thither they found many Desarts and Mountains one of which was so high that the Commander assured us they were forty days in mounting up to the top of it They were all both Man and Beast like to have been killed with thirst and were many times in danger of being devoured by the wild beasts which they met in Troops The danger he was in of losing his life He had much ado to save himself from a Rhinoceros of a huge bigness that was within three steps of him ready to tear him in pieces had he not escaped it by flinging himself to one side and getting out of sight of the Beast which sought about for him a long while to have rent him But when they came to the 27th Degree of Latitude about ten or twelve Leagues from the Coast of the Ocean they met with a very numerous Nation and far more tractable than any they had met with till then M. Vanderstel had with him two Trumpets some Hobois and five or six Violins and so soon as the People heard the sound of these Instruments they came flocking about them and sent for their Musique consisting of near thirty persons who had almost all different Instruments He that was in the middle had a very long Cornet made of the gut of a Bullock dried and prepared the rest had Flagellets and Flutes made of Canes of different lengths and thickness They bore their Instruments much after the same manner as ours are but with this difference that there is but one hole which reaches from one end to the other and is much wider than that of the Flutes and Flagelets commonly used in France To tune them together they make use of a Ring that hath a little opening in the middle which they move up or down in the pipe by means of a little wand according to the note they would have it tuned to Their Musick Instruments and Dancing They hold their Instrument with one hand and with the other press their Lips against the Instrument that so they may blow full into the Pipe that Musick is simple but it is harmonious He that is Master of the Consort having made all the other Musicians tune their Instruments according to the Key and Note of the Cornet which he has by him bids the Tune that is to be played and with a great stick beats the time so as he may be seen of all The Musick is always accompanied with Dances which consist in leaping and certain motions of the feet without budging out of the place they are in The Women and Maids making a great ring about the Dancers only clap their hands and sometimes knock with their feet in cadence None but the players on the Instruments change their place in Dancing except the Master of the Musick who stands motionless that he may keep them in tune and time The Men are well shapen and robust they have long hair which they suffer to hang down and dangle about their shoulders Their Arms are the Arrow and Javelin which hath some resemblance with the Lance their Apparel consists in a long Cloak of a Tygers skin that reaches down to their heels some of them are as white as the Europeans but they smut themselves with grease and the powder of a certain black stone wherewith they rub over their face and whole body Seeing their Fields and Woods abound with very rare simples of all sorts they are all Herbalists Many of them are very skilful in Minerals too which they know how to melt and prepare but they have no