‘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’ [‎80] (123/470)

85 ~ The Voyages oi hhn Struys. V .
ambufh running towards me , from feveral places between me and
16/5 the River. Our men were newly come aihoar and filling their Casks
with Water ,who made all the hail they qculd jgain'd the Boat,loofd
off from the ihoar, and eying the Enemy too earneftly ran the Shallop
upon a Sand, where they were fet fail > but havingfome Fire-arms
aboard, they kept the Iurksoff, till they got the Boat adrift, and fa
made, their efcape. In the mean while 1 fat biting- my nails , and
foratching my head in the Vineyard. Seeing my way forelaid-, and no.
hopes ofcomihg to the Sea-fide. I began to confult with my felf what
fhift to make , and concluded it the greateit folly m the world tor
oppofe my felf againftfo many men, for which ( being once in their
clutches ) I might expect feverer ufage. It was not long before
they came to fee what kind of ZiFod, they had -got in their Gin,
where they found Peel-garhck-rezdY to yield up the Ghoft for fear.
They brought me firft to the Hamlet, wherewas faid-to itandin
times of yore, and afterwards to thofe Caftles which are built oppo- •
fite to each other, and command the entrance o f the Here
they put me in a Galley, ftnpt oif myRobes, fliaved my head , and
mude a f et me to an Oar ., which was work enough for fix of us to tug at >
sUvt< me anly, a pair of linnen Breeches to. cover my nakedaefs.
I was chain'd to a Rujnm , who had been 24, years in the Galleys ; fot
all ftrangers that/ they takeinthe^if/i^ Sea-Armade , are toftayiii
the Galleys during life, without the benefit of Redemption. Which
when I came to underlland, begauin all haft ta repent my: temerity,
andfoolhardinefs, and hadthought my felf more happy if I had been
pilling of Turnips or Cucumbers, at hurgerdam. , than, plucking oi
fiich four Grapes, inaTre^ Vineyard, u ■
How inhuman and barbarous our Ufage was , no Tongitexan duly
utter , nor Pen decipher. For the Guardian of that Galley was repu
ted the moft fevere ofany other in the Fleet , and although we plyed
never- fo; feduloufly , were fare to be threfh'd on the naked ribs with a
Buls-pizle:, when thefit took him j and one mans, hide muft unjuftly
be made a piaculum , for another's Remifnefs > or Sloth, nor was the
Tygre ever well , but when he heard feme a roaring , or yelling out
The Rttf was ever. .now and then counfelling to .betake our felvs to
■Slight f which I had a great mind to effay (^for the Venetian Armade
lay but ,two leagues from, us _) but.cou Id never fee an opportunity,
meeting:;