‘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’ [‎321] (388/470)

C hap . XXXII. The Voyages of lohn Struys.
as at prefent they do, and have free Toleration to knock any man
down that fhall offer to interrupt them. They have one only Mona- l6 " 2 -
ftcry, or Coembium , where they all live together 3 which was built them
* at the Charges of the prefent King: and have alfo a confiderable Sum
allowed them for their maintenance, befides what they gather from
the People by mumping , op rather Mountebanking.
On the VVeft fide OooutDoivlet-Chane are all theSooth-fayerSjof which
there be tyo forts, to wit, Eemal and both which are in their
practife more ridiculous than our circumventing Gypfies, and confe-
quently not worth my Pains to recount, nor the Readers Patience to
hear of'em.
In going from the Maydtn to the Northward you find a way which
leads you to the Bajan, where is a very ftately , full of Shops
and thofe ftored with very rich commodities. This Market conlifts
in a certain number of Streets, that are moftly arched over. Hither
repair Merchants of all Nations, except alone, as , T"
t&rs, Turks, ^rmenUns, Georgians, asalfo Enghfh y
Hollanders and other Europeans. Their way of Dealing is altogether
for Money, nothing by Barter. Abas is the moft plentifull coin in
ufe among them, valuing fomthing lefs than an \Engtifh~\ Shilling, and
the Schach Abas which is half the value of the other; the latter is alfo
moftly called Chodiabende. They do not ufe much Gold, but abun
dance of Copper which they call P40 of which Pieces make an
Ahas. The Europeans who com thither bring commonly Rix-dollars,
which the Per Jims once getting into their Hands will by no means
part with them, for they are diligently fought up by the Money
changers, who bring them to the S , or Mint, and make
a confiderable profit of them.
C H A P. XXXII.
Tabcrik Kale the Treafurie of ths Kingdom.Plot Suburhs Ifpahan. Tziulfa,
f lace where the A rmenian Chriftians h Refidence. T abrifabath. HalTc-
nabatb. Kebrabath, fo citUed from Kebber, Pagans.
Tzarbag. P'he Nature of the Pcdians, Prepertj
the Epiphany ky the Armenian ChrtfliMs.
I spahan, as it is a Royal City of focoofiderable a Monarchy, and
one of the firft magnitude, fo it has a ereatcoocourfe of Strangers
ST' from