‘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’ [‎216] (275/470)

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ikj The Voyages of V o v. III.
rut. how he was , and found that it was fufficiently bettered : for the
1670. Rupture which he with his own hands had indeavoured to flop, by
thrufting it in > and as often broke out > was now ftay'd j and he
told me that he could every day perceiv that it grew better. I gave
him advice to keep himfelf a whole year intheTrufs, and continue
anoynting himfelf after the manner 1 did my felf, which he alfo pro-
mifed to obferv. When I took my leav of him, he gave me a piece
of hard wood, of a dark-red colour j with a Crofs 3 and a filver Chain
which he wore about his neck, as alfo a Stone, which he told me he
had taken from under the Ark; Thefe Reli£ts he adjured me to be
very carefull of, faying the' real value and efteem thereof would be
fuch, that if ever I came to Rom , and bellowed them on St. Peters
Church that they would reward me with a Gift which ihould ferve me
for a maintenance fo long as I lived. The Wood and the Crofs I
brought with me, buttheftone, with fomefparkling Oar were taken
from me when the Englif h took our Ship. I he Hcrmitewasbornat
Rome , and of very good Parentage, his Father being one of the molt
eminent Citizens there, who upon his Death-bed charged his Son,
To retire himfelf from the Society of Men and betake himfelftothe
Mountain Ararat , there to fpend his days in a Heremitical Lite.
The Son in obedience to this his Father's Will, took upon him
this Tourney and manner of Life, where he had then been 25 years,
living there in great Tranquillity and with more contentment than
he could do in the World of Befides thofe Relicts already
mentioned he gave me a Teftimonial in Writing, to evidence to the
Curious my being there, which [afttr runs thus:
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thHe-X^Ofiauam non potui intemittere d Johanms Janfonn,
tmiMprecabatur. ut Tefiimonium ipft darem jcriptum, quod fuper-ncmi-
H'S natus Joannes Janfonius ffterit monte banBo Ararath,
j/stroys, circitertriginta quinque miliariumfurfim 5 M^rnmam Joao-
nes me fanaVit ah ma magnaruptura; • propterea tpft
asp, propter magnum diligent iam fmm qtwn mtht pr^ftittt:
pro hacheneVolentia donaVi mm quodfuitfrujhm
ArchaNoe, uhi inperJomintHs/ui,tfilluddequorfacruxejlf ^