‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ [‎121] (170/470)

Chap. II. The Voyages of m
rktskoti , is a large City, a great part thereof is furrounded with a octoe.
wall, the reft with huge Balks like Fallizados, and computed abou 1 i€ 7 s '
8 [ English ] miles in compafs. Their Houfes are made lleightly of
Trees and pieces of Timber, let in with joynts, without any Gentility
or ornament. The Town it felf gives a noble Prolpccl if you view
it from without, by reafon of the many Parifh - Churcl" and
Towers it has, but when you come within, it appears Very ugly, the
llreetsare irregular without Unitormity, and the Houfes built after
multifarious manners, fo that the pooreft Village, in the
fm, wlii is aParadice in comparifon of Fletsh is true they have fome Houfes
dioaoftk offtone, but the moft eminent and wealthy Citizens chufe rather to
iarfa live in Wooden-Houfes than in thofe, for that they fay. The latter are
[y-jef!, more wholfom. Here I happened to meet with a , and
after we had exchanged a few words together , concerning our
journey from Riga , I told him of my rouzing the Bear. He replyed that
I was happy to make my efcape fo, fince not only men are fometimes
devoured by them, but alfo Horfes and Kine, and withal told me,
how that they dig up the Graves for the Bodies of the Dead, when
they are hungry. But more lamentable was a ftory he told me, of a
She-Bear, that in the year i6y6. b Houfe
not far from thence, Mvhere she had found Woman
Infant in the bed Tvith her* TheTvoman
left leg and a litle of the Scalp, but altogether mifi,
laas concluded that the Bear had eaten confequently
more delicate. Tiot long after this difmd Pea fan t
Tvith him into the Mods not far from his
Trhich haunted his Fish-pond, and by t Bear, at
his Mafquet, and hits him dsreBly on the skull. The Bear( as
shot) rolls hmfelfin aheap , the Peafant
'Crtu; and her Duggs full of Milk, refohes the next d
nieisl 1 ! for then he thought that her Whelps
(his ^ filtoTfing he Tvent out to feek the Cave, taking 2 cr 3 other
ever 1'' Tvho being akout the 'JTiitddle ofthe Wood,
goots# chdi cry, and folloTvingthe direction , oTvn
jjgs M' 1 the cleft of a great Rock, Vahich hetosk an Pletskou, to nurfid
"eafa h his Wives Sifter, inhere out ofcurio ft ty
In the Suburbs otPletskou , wastobefeena fhank-bone of a Giant,
5 foot