‘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’ [‎198] (251/470)

ipg The Voyagcs of lohn Struys. V oy . III.
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jUiJE. Shallop where we ftill waited for the Captain and two other Perfons
^7°? w hofe Goods we had with us in the Boat. After a long expectation
we fawno Captain come, it growing late in the Evening , and our
Men impatient ofdelay would needs thruft off from the Wall, but
Lambert Helt the Mafter reftrained us all he could , faying, That it was
what we could not anlwer, See. Thus we ftaid waiting till the Gates
were to, ftill expecting their coming, but midnight already come and
no tidings of them we began to be in a hundred Fears : fome were of
Opinion that the Captain was gone in a or fome other fmall
Veifel with the other two Gentlemen that were with him , or that he
was taken and fecu red : others were jealous that the Wife of Trappen
hadbetray'd us. Thus in great fear we lay all the time , not know
ing what courfe to take , well knowing that if the Ruffes had
underftood our Purpofe, it would have coft us our lives , nor had we
dared to flay fo long had not our Shallop lay on the other fide of the
Ship from the Tow n-ward, and thereforeout of light : Nor could we
be ealily induced to beleeve that they would miftruft our venturing
our lives in the Sea with fuch a Boat. Thus we refolved by the grace of
GOD to thwart the C^«»Meer and fo for the Coaft , and
father truft to the divine Providence of Heaven, than confide in the
uncertain Mercies of unreafonable Men.
C H A P. XVI.
TheyMldown the Wolga, andmifs their Courfe. at Oetzjocge.
flrtnge mamer of fishing of the Biclocgc. o/Cavear.
with great difficulty to gain the Cafpian
cf the I (land Satyry Boggerc, Tall Re
fullTemoefl. The Golden Bay.Their meeting with a Tartarian B^i A de-
fcrtption ofTcrkl. The Beginning of t Circas-Tartars;
Complexions defcribed. Their Habit
Habit, Humours and Inclinations.
ON the 2 2 of lutteabout midnight we put off and rowed down the
River and ran into a Creek, which we ftill took tor the ftolgti
till afterward we found the contrary. We faw here and there foni'-'
Cottages of the Nagayan-Tartars , but had not the Courage to go and
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