‘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’ [‎230] (289/470)

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1670.
fet~him upon the Horfe and got up my felf behind him, in the
mean while he continued bleeding at the Nofe and Ears, and fo
weak that I had much ado to hold him upright upon the Horfe
After he came home he was put to bed , which he kept for 14
days together before he recovered his Strength. It was no fmall caufe
of Joy to me that things fell fo well out , as that he lived to de
clare the true caufe of' this difmal accident : whereas if he had
died , 't would certainly have coll me my Life, among thofe brui-
tifli, furious and unreafonablc People, efpecially in conlideratkm of
of the Condition I was in, not only a Stranger both to their Re-
ligion and Manners as well as their Coimtrey and Perfons 3 but
likewifea Slave, for whofe Death and Slaughter a man is no more
accountable than for the flender Value and Market price > whilft on
the contrary it fell out that 1 got the Credit of faving his Life, and
his Benevolence ever after for an aft of fuch merit, having run the
jeopardy of my own Perfon. So much kindnefs he profefled for
me, that he promifed to take me with him to Ijpahm , where he
faid he would bellow me upon fome of my own Nation.
This Motion liked me exceeding well, but my chief Patronefs
who fpoke very good Loivdutch advifed me to the Contrary, fay-
ing , ^My Husband, your Lord, 'tis Ifpahan,
he intends to go on a Pilgrimage to , hefloiv 200000
on the Sepulchre of Mahomet, for T*>htc Hadzy Kan,
■Kill he canonized and regiftred among ,
themfehs and Honor of theirPofienty, no^ finfible^hit
Danger hangs oyer your head in regard ef Phis faid; fhetoldme
if I would vow Silence {lie would impart me a Secret, which per
haps would be of more importance than that, and without doubt
I should judge it more worthy of Acceptance. I promifed her I
would not detecl her Council, be what it would; but for accep
ting it deiired her not to injoyn me till I had heard and well
conlidered of it. To this fhe replies.
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