‘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’ [‎285] (350/470)

C hap . X XVU. The V"oyages of lohn S trays
with all neceffarys & refreflimeiits, which we had for a very mean kok
price. 1671.
On the 9 th we found very bad travailing way and with great Dif
ficulty, went over the Mountains of out of which Moun
tains arifeth the River Cara/u, and after it has encompafied many
Mountains glides with a loft and gentle ft ream thro the Valleys,
fill it finds the great Araxes , into winch it difgorgeth it's felf with an
incredible noife. Near the Village Samim is a very famous Bridge, all
of Stone, computed to be 45 o Foot long, and withall very broad. This
Bridge we paifed over, and towards night came to Trakdar a Village ^"idge.
feated in a plealant Landihip , where we took up our Nights-lod
ging, but not our Nights-reft, for we were horribly tormented with
Fleas and Lice, that being (as in Scotla/id) the Countrey-Plague, Lice and
which I prefume comes from the Heat of the Cows-dung, that
the Inhabitants dry and ftow up in their Houfes , to ufe forFc-
wel.
The next day we broke up, and went thro the Town Kelcherd,.
which is about -half an hours walking from t^frdebil., where is the ao-
ble Maufoleum , or Sepulchre of Zide Tza , the Father of
phy. This T&ayhrail was in his life time a man ofa mean and flender
Fortune, as well in Subftance as Parts, but Sedredm lus Grandchild
willing to make him coequal with his Father in the Calender, caufed
all his Bones to be gathered together and brought to this Shrine, which
was ereded to his perpetual Memory. The Time alfo built
that moft fumptuous Mefchaich , or Sepulchre within Jrdtbii, for Scech
Sephy his Father. Certainly thofe Bones of his Grandfather muft have
bin very emphatical and notedly eminent above all the Boors and Pe-
fants Bones that had lay there ahund red years, that could now, al-
moft reduced to Duft, be diftinguifhed from the reft: otherwife, thrice
happy were his Neighbours who had kept him company fo long a
time, for it was hard if fome Joynt or other was not canonized with the
Anatomy of this Holy T^erhad. However the very devoutly
pay their Devotions at this facred Tomb, without much refpeft to the ;
Matter. But in what manner thofe Bones appear I could not fee,
altho I was fhorn after the Verfran fafhion. and in my converfa-
tion with Hadji Byram my quondam Mafter, ufed more like a C^oiiipani-
on than a Servant, much lefs as a Slave, and was m general looked
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