‘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’ [‎243] (304/470)

Chap. XXII. The Voyages of Struys.
as well in Diet as Habit, and at laft having fpent the Money they
brought with them out of Poland, were reduced to fuch poverty 3 that I670 *
they went up and down like Beggars, being alhamed to com into
honeft Company r for befides their coftly Attire which he always
kept locked up, he would not allow them a lufficiency of Linnen
to keep them clean. If any offered to complain he threatned to fell
them for Slaves, which tended to the great detriment of thofe his
Domeftics, and Difhonour of the King and Crown of Poland. This
bred in the Polifh Gentry luchdifsaffedion that they refolved often
times to have revenge > but as thofe who know themfelvs confcious
of fuch ill demeanor are ever in fear of their Perfons , fo he who
knew himfelf guilty of fuch wicked doings , had always a certain
number of his own Nation to fecure and guard him. However they
once finding opportunity, and being already com to the very Ca-
taftroph of Patience , began to hew him with their Scymiters and
Axes, as he fliould go out of his Dining-Room, where they chopt The^tm-
and mangled him fo that he lay for dead upon the Floor , in the
Portic, having received 17 grievous Wounds, and loft three Fingers Sp «
of his Right hand; yet by the great diligence and fkill of his Chirur-
geon who was then at hand, he was reftored to his former Health and
Sanity. This outrage as it could not but ingender bad blood , fo
it rendred the Ambaffadour much more defpightfull than before, and
that very night to be revenged, fent a Gear gun Soldier to
a Poltfh Gentleman , who was as Affiftent in this Ambaffage , and
equally impowered to treat with the Minifters of State at the Per*
fian Court, and therefore reckoned by the other as an obftrucfion
in the Promotion of his In tereft, as well as his being ready to repre-
fentthe Occafion of thefe Tumults to the King, in fuch manner as
might tend to his difadvantage : yet it ought to be underftood of
this Gentleman , that he neither gave incouragement , nor knew
any thing of that extravagant Action. The having obtai- Pan;e ,
ned entrance, ran to his Bed-fide and there moft inhumanly murthe' g r os.
red him whilft afleep. This Paniegros was a Gentleman of a brave
conduct, and withall of a meek temper, having purchafed the Love »»/«
even of thofe that feemed to be his Lot-enemies for his prudent and
civil deportment, He had lived for fom years together at
dam, and fpoke very good Tether-dutch. The reft of the Na-
H h 2 tion