‘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’ [‎278] (343/470)

The Voyages of lohnStruys. V oy .III.
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I«^I» bemgaffeep&j«»fofe&me4i*sbtM'i*tuk fe&wiaho.
manly and witk what cruelty fae hadufednte: I told ttem alfo that I
was a Donreftic of tht Pdifk Am&afladoet: Heating this they let me
go: bat coming «r the Gorner of the Street I met with lo or 12 o-f
his Company, "all Tartm-, who nofbonenanda-ftoodwhatwasdon
but they ran all over the Town to feek me, and perceiving my feif
environed on every fide I ran into a Tobacco Imife wnder pretext of
fmoking a Pipe, paying my ufual Penny; and here I lurk'd till I
thought the Coaft was clear, and fo ran home. B« it was not long
before I heard a whole Troop the Gate,v. ho were the fame
that tollowed me, brmging the filly Mifcreant along with them, alt
bloody and plaiftered with Kennel-dirt, to fliow him to ray Lord. The
Ambaifadour underltanding what was the Matter, called me to him,
and hearing all the whole Paffage , faid to me •, Get yen ,
Loggerhead, Ts>hy did you not fir ike hornet t-hm 'Tire
at the Door. Hence, hence, 1 fay
when it cms to your mm ,go turn m A hard T alk,
upon my Word, yet coming bebw, all the Gentlemeaaiid Slants
waited there, longing to hear what refuk 1 had , and uuderftaw-
dmg, what the Ambafladours Pleafere was, they refolded unam-
moufly to furnifh themfelvs with Truncheons and'Glubs , and fall
upon them on a fudden, which we did and threfh'd them manfully
back and fides, for we were 2 to one: The poor that wanted
full SatisfaQrion got a handfom terc inrhe Fray, and was fo throughly
bafted with Oil of Ganes that he who at the firft coming to the
Door, pretended that he could not go , orftand, was fow^. 13 anoin
ted that he knew how to cut a Gaper as well as his Gompanions.
Which I alfo faid to a Gentleman that told it to my Lord. He iaughed
heartily, faying, Iprote/i this Hollander ts an
The Time drew on when all the Garavans fitted and made prepa
ration for rfpshm , which I gfeatly longed for. And to lofe no Op
portunity that would make for it, laddreffed my felf to my Patron,
humbly begging- that I might have my Liberty, which at laft he
affented to , on Gondition I would be accountable to hinuor the
150 x^Ahas,which he fold me he paid for me, rcfufing togiveit me
without. However he let me know privately by a third Perfon , that