‘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’ [‎302] (367/470)

The Voyages of lohn Struys.
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did Court and Palace of the grcztChodcUbende called.
This Was fortified on each fide with ftrong Walls and feveral great
bulwarks, altogether built ot huge fquare Stones of 3 Foot Diameter ;
it had alfo 4 high Towers , but ftrong and of neat Workmanfliip.
Within is a very noble Sepulchre built by Sultan Choddtbmde himfelf:
who lay here iflterred, but the too great Piety of his Succeflbr would
not futfbr his Bones to reft, but removed them to the
t^frddtl. In eotfing this Sepulchre one muft pafs thr6 three very high
(Sates all made of indun Steel, very neatly poliflied, andasfmooth
as Glafs, this being the feme Mettal of whic h the
M-fkymkm ate made, and is preferred before any other Steel
that isxtfed. That Gate which leads out tso the (as the
would perfwade themfdvs and us) Cannot be opened by any Force,but
when one prays to GOD, for the fake of his Servant of/y, that
ihiy open, it opens of it's fe& The Building is very high, contrafting
its felf at to,^ into the mannet of a ToWer, and within is fet with
White and blew Tiles of Porceline. Above, Wh€te ft begins todravr
its felf into the form of a Tower, is a Partition of Seed Barrs, which
makes a handfom Chore. In this Partition or Quire A booklet formed of a single gathering of nested bifolia. I faw many
Boofcs,Written in ^/•rffcfCharaders,fome whereof were above 50 Inch
es teng, I opened one of them and found an interlineary change of
Gold and Black lines, like the Rubrics in the Romw Breviaries, Li
turgies and Mafs books. Behind the Altar is the Tomb where Sultan
tMuhameAchoddabende lay interred but parted from the Body of the
Chore with great and mafly Barrs of Indian Steel, which the
fay was all of one piece, no place appearing where it might feem to
be well'd, or fet together, and that it was feven years a making in
India. In this faid Emarath are 20 pieces ofBrafsOrdnance, every,
Carridge having 4 wheels a piece, and the Balls lying by them of
white Marble, thefe are made (Torfooth) for defence of theH. Se
pulchre. The Tower above is 8 fquare,and on each fide a Gallery, and
upon each Gallery a fmaH. Turret going up with Winding-ftairs.
Before this Temple is a Fountain, the curious Work whereof iliows
the great fkill and dexterity of the Workman that ordained it: it
ceives its Water by an Aqueduft from the : and behind the
Emarat'h is a very pleafant Garden, with Walks and Rows of divers
forts of Trees.
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