‘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’ [‎255] (316/470)

C hap . XXIII. The Voyages of lohn Struys.
fore , the danger he was in , of loofing his Head when called in
queftion about his ill deportment in The Gentlemen in his '671,
Retinue finding this Procraftination of his Journey to did but
increafe their Mifery, were almoft in defpair, willing rather to beg
all the way home, or get into fervicewithcthe Car wans % Amonllthe
reft one Fable tVitskj , a youth of 19 years of Age, departs for
with the Car ay An. This young Gentleman having fhown us more
than ordinary favour, I thought my felf obliged to do wliat lay in
my Power to retaliate his kindnefs, and therefore gave him Letters
to the Dutch Conful at Smyrna. and to fome eminent Merchants of
our Nation, defiring if he fhould chance to be neceffitated or at a
lofs for Money they would pleafe to affift him, he having upon his
departure no more than 20 Crowns. I gave them alfo a full Demon-
ftration ofwhathehaddoneforthe D Slaves , as alfo an account
of his Worth in refpeft of his Race and Defcent, he beingof onc
of the nobleft families in the Countrey , and was able to remitt
what they thought good to difburfe for him.
On the 19 dito were 6 Silver Plates ftollen out of our Mafters Houfe
which put all into a diforder , he being fo paffionate that nought
could appeafe him ; and fufpeding one Man for the Theft, he
caufed him to be tortured in the prefence of all the Family, altho
he was innocent as to the Fad. Firft he was beat with (ticks on the
foles of his Feet which he neverthelefs manfully ftood out: when
this was done they held his Feetdofe to the Fire, which made him
yell and roar out, that the Hair of my Head flood on end; and in
as much as he could not any longer endure the Torment, he con-
fefTed what he was not guilty of, as afterwards appeared; altho
when he was taken away he denied all : and thus the poor man
meerly becaufe he was a Pole fo ufed that he could neither ftand nor
go , nor was allowed a fufficient care to reftore him to his former
Sanity, nor had any thing by way of fatisfaftion , as an acknow
ledgment of a wrong.
About this time came news from Tejflis about theChirurgeon who
had done that operation on the Ambaffador, how that the Prince
having underftood that he was arrived fent for him, and after many
Careflcs and in order to his Promife, fent for one ofthemoft emi
nent Merchants in the City , who had one only Daughter. The
* Prince