‘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’ [‎268] (331/470)

The Voyages of iohn Struys. Vox. Ill, ^
w^r. in what was done. But the Ambaffadour who had been fo long at the fj?
16?i, Academy of P'enus, was fuch an expert Proficient that he could lay r
his Leflbn with out book as well as .his Domeftics, take'em one for-
one: and in fhort had fuch compaffion on her that he fent her away ;"®
a free Remiflionary, but not without reconciling her to her Has- 'jj
band. Soon after the Gentlemen alfo got inlargement. 1
On the 2 2 a Youngman (according to Sentence paffed upon him)
was beat to death with Sticks, being to pafs thro the Town and at
the Corner of every Street to receiv a certain number of Blows., till ft*
at laft he dropped down dead. This was mainly occafioned upon
the requeft of his unnatural and mercilefs F ather, who was an eminent jiip 111
Gentleman, and Inhabitant The Crime for which he ifWi«
was accufed was a kind of Satyr , or a Pifquil, which he had written I], i»
and fent to the Governour: the main purport whereof was in thefe nqtod
Words. WfTf comes it that yourLordffa-gr'Sthtt.nilotfafuddenf-
Who haspo/e/ed j our mud totfter-jhafe contitmed /,k Ferfians I utis Ji
j/td do Dishonour uilio'all /^.Muliilmans and the tehefc. nljntt
Kingdom in geneyd? Or are,^,indeed}>eLom aChrifii*n? Ihis lnno-
vation he meant, was an Interdiction which the Governour,
had iifueci 3 days after the-Praceffion , That none ihouJd hew and cut soft
(as was their Cuftom) with Swords- in the Streets, like,as we have
fpoke more amply in the teailof .J/j'. Phe,Father,.fomfaid,, durit iwotiH
not but make complaint, , left it fliould have been imputed to hi nir [oupjjj
felf as Mifprifion, it being well known by odiers, that it was his Son 1^1
who fent the Libel. But it may be obferved that thofe who would
put the affair in that Pofture, were either prejudic'd.or byalfed Per- ^
Ions. But others who \ycre iiidiftcreut looked upon it as an Example
of Unmercifulnefs and Ambition , where lie only did it forHopes. ^
of Favour froni .the Chan , which be efteemeda Purchafeequivalent
to his fons Life. The next day was another Man beat to Death, by ^
7 ofthe Chans Domeftic? befoxe the Gates of the Palace,, butfotwhat
I could not learn. , , , r ,
uttot- Upon the 2 6 we got another,Narrativ, wliieh cennrmed the ror,mcr ^
J^jgws from i^Ajlrachm > as alfo, how that Radqjn wasearried to l
&. ecu. In the mean while Mr. ymTermtind makes preparation to gofer
jfpahan , and with all diligence makes up a Company, to the end that
he might travel more fccu,re ? there being then a great rumor of many ^