‘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’ [‎343] (416/470)

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true they did not at firft make any affault but deferred their purpofe
till midnight, thinking perhaps, that we not fufpeffing them might "W
grow fupinc, and judging our felvs fecure, grow fo negligent as to fall
afltep; but we thought good to fet a narrow Watch and kept our
felvs in a readinefs all the Night, with Weapons in our hand , for fear
of a fudden affault. About midnight they fell in and fought out
right, fo that 5 of our Men lay prefently under Feet , being in all
37. We fought joyntly together with good Courage fo that we fpee-
dily allayed their Fury. Our Party as we could obferve were much
Wronger than theirs, yet if we had not bin unanimous and faithfull
to one another we had not com fo well of, for there was not one Man
from the greateft to the leaft, but fought manfully and with a good
will, till the very laft, when they ran into another Roomand'/hut
the Door after them, which was no fmall advantage to us: for, when
we had them fo pen'd up we knew our felvs fecure, there being no
other Faftage for them to com out at. The Door we barricado'd in
with huge Stones , and with all our Carbines and Blundcrbuflcs
poured in fhot upon them, fo long, till they began to beg for Quarter,
which we refolved not to giv them, but promifed them the liberty
to com forth and to Hand to our mercy. In the mean while We had £ W r.
obferved that feveral of them lay dead and wounded. After they had ~
confulted a while among themfelvs they refolved to com forth, but
we refufed to let them com all together, but one by one: keeping a nar
row watch at the Door that they fliould not rulh out altogether. Ha
ving got them out they were very patient and fufFered us to ty them
back to back, i nofe that were wounded we killed outright j and
and when it began to be light we fet forward on our Journey, taking
the reft oeing abov 20 along with us, and coming to a Gi'oVcofDate-
T rees,there hung them up by the heels,and ftripping off their Cloaths rw
flalhed off their N ofes, Ears and Hands, which we nailed to a Tree as
Monuments andReli&s of Roguery,and left theBodies hangirig. How
we came to be fo happy as to conquer thofe Villains was no fmall won
der to me,lince there was never a man among the Company that fought
with any other Order than as his Courage led him, fo that we fee what
fom will do and can atchieve, when Life and Goods lie at the ftake.
Their Punifhment'tis true , was feverc enough to let them die alin-
gring Death , but the Lofs of our Companions was fo precious to
ment*
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