‘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’ [‎241] (302/470)

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AmbalTadour to buy me of my Patron. This gave a delicate found
in my Ear, being the only thing I defired to hear of} and coming I<5 7 0 '
home began to lupplicatc my Matter that he would vouchfafe to
fell me into the Hands of the Polifh Ambafladour, at which he feem'd
to be a litle altered, and faid, John, conTviibjour fclf thc nature
requeft: haye you foundfuch hardhdve ?
iVhy thenJtou'd jou go from me ? Go ra lipahan.
Jince you hayeonce fayed my life and in a
befioTe you upon fom of your otva Nation w Redemption
thing clfe in ft e id of you, inhere you (hall But I ftill re-
mem bred the words of my Patronefs ^yiltine , and had no great fto-
mach to go for ifpahan with him: However with many thanks de
clined his Offer, praying him rather if he had the .Kindnefs for me
he profelfed, that he would pleafe to let me have my requeft herein;
for I longed mainly to be among Ghriftians. Well, laid he 3 fmceyoa
leill go , you fioall , but beafiured you fhall ufige haye
here , alt he it Tvere fvith 4 Chriftian, [forfooth~\. Bochdan
the Polilh Min'tjler, he is not fo good a Chrifl'tan jou
vain Georgian, lohom the King of Poland has Sophy,
to treat about a War "inth the T urks, b , and
remifsnefs in the Affairs of the King his
be called in quejlion about it. AH this did not a whit daunt me from my
Refolution, for I gave him a certain allowance as to the Charafter
he had given him> or, altho he had been fuch a Perfon there was
more hopes of my coming home thro Mofcoyia -, fooner than thro
India , and fo from Batayia. This Boc as I have been fmce infor
med had formerly a Command of Horfe under the King of and
was fo well acquainted with the Humorofthe King, that he was im-
ploy'd on this Ambalfage, but much envy'd by the Pclanders. The
next day I was fold and delivered up to the Ambaffador for 150 ,
being the fum Hadfy Biram had paid for me to the Prince. Upon my
taking leav of my Mafter, he wifhed me happinefs, and withone
told me that he was fenfible the King of had Money enough
to redeem a Chriftian, otherwife he would have taken nothing for me.
And now was none more happy than my felf in imagination, not
thinking otherwife than fuddenly to have my Freedom. On the
1 of November I was fent for by the Ambaifadour , where being
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