‘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’ [‎280] (345/470)

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I weighing the danger of the Cofacs who ftill molefted the Cajpim.
Sea, durft not refolv thereupon , but defired her to put that out of
her mind. She perceiving me not at all flexible to imbrace her Propo-
fals, grew on a fudden very Heartlefs and dejefted, and with a deep,
figh {aid, mil,I find myfelfm defpair of ever coming mto Chrijlendom,
the mil of GOD he don: and feeing y Ifpahan you-
Tvoald do Tvell to take jout foutnej Tvitb my Hush and, Tt? ho intends if the ^eafoa^
prove good to fet forTvard to morrow, y Incredible was-my Joy to -
hear the news, that my Patronwastotakethejourney fofuddenly,-
who had an entire and unfeigned Love for me , as 1 have already'
fhown, About 2 hours after my coming thither came my Patron him--
felf, who underftanding by my Patronefs that I was com to take-
my laft leav of him, bade me fit down, and after a friendly welcom
told me if 1 would go along .with him to Ifpahan , he would bear my
Charges. I accepted of his" kind.Offer, with all telling him, how-
that 1 was afliamed of tiie freedom I had aflumed to myfelf in being
a continual burthen and Change xo him : but fmce it was aninten- •
tion of his toheap yet greater favours upon me, I pray'd him to admitt
2 more of my Gouatreymen into.onr Company, to wit, L.F»hru■-
tim and chriflian Brandt, who were redeemed by the Ea(i-lndia Com--
pany, upon the Interceffion of Uonh.Termund, they bearing their <
own Charges; He made, anfwer, John, fhall
altho there ere:Twenty of em. When all was in a readinefs I-went to
o-ive my Patronefs the laft Adieu, and obferved that Tears ftood m.
her Eies. William B. Klopper I would fain have had along with us., but
he judged it. better to ftay with the Legate, thinking to come <
that way, and thro CMrfcoyia foonerhorae., than by the the
more becaufe he found himfelf unfound of Body , and very unfit*
to undertake fo great a J ourney, and after that,fo long a Voyage, and.
pafs the Line twice; thus with Tears we took our Leavs of each
other, with order that-who foever did firft arrive at home ihould
wive an account of the laft Condition he left the reft in. The fame,
dav that we left Scamacht I met v/ith , who, as-
\va^ laid in Fag. 2 5 8 , being a Smith by his Trade, made Knives and
Swords for his Patron at Bachu , and had continued fo long in Slavery,
this Place being the moft noted in all the Countrey for Steel andiron
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