‘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’ [‎245] (306/470)

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Tvife order , uponmj ^yibfencc togiye youVtci tails. The fweeteft mil lie, 1670
I muft confefs, 1 heard in Perfia-y and certainly he who was a <JMiU
hometan , furpaffed my Georgian Mafter far in Charity , who had
rather feed Doggs he kept for his pleafare 3 than Chriftian-ftrangers,
altho his own Domeftics.
'Tis true this Offer was very acceptable , but all my fear was,
that Heid.fi w ould not tarry long at Scam achy lo that I fhould again be
at a lofs, and therefore I determined with my felf to run away; as
then I met with an opportunity to go for Smyrna with a great Cara-
vAn, which was a preparing and almoft ready to fet forward. Iliad
already befpoke my felf to go with an who was to fet for
ward 6 days before the general Departure with the great Caravan
but what reafon 1 met with to the contrary (hall be Ihortly told.
T^oyemb. 4. I went out of the Town to fee if I could fpeak with an
Ambafladour who was difpatched from Iff Ah an to , and to
requeft of him to reprefent our Condition to the C^ar, but I could
not get to fpeech of him. He had with him 4 Tygres and Leopards
for a prefent to the Great Duke.
On the 11 to my great Aftonilliment and Joy I faw our Captain
Butler, together with Cornelms the Gunner 3 J .vanTermund,
Brand, Lelvis Fahritms and Peter Arentfz, coming into Scam achy 5 upon
which in all haft I ran to bid them welcom and falute them 3 altho
the Captain ihowed himfelf much difpleafed at us, for that we (as he
alleadged) went away without his leav and order, and not waiting
for him: to which 1 replied. Captain you
'Svas, That Tve fhould notfiay fo much as a quarter of an hour for any one,
the Gates Tver e (hut, but if anytransgrefion muji
to us , it mufl be this that Tve Jlay A till for you,
any thing of you, Tee concluded that yonTvere
had made jourefcape firn other T»ayj Tve
wake any longer delay , thought it more put Jlaytdl
Unas day light > &c. With thefe and other reafons 1 gave him he feemed
to be fatisfied , and promifed to do all that lay in his power to pro
cure our Redemption, as from that time forward he laboured very
much to do. And this was the reafon , that my intended Journey
for Smyrna , was not undertaken thinking this to be a more hope-
H h 3 full