‘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’ [‎358] (433/470)

3 8 The V oyages ofStruys. III.
k/iWA them under the like CiYcmnftmces Ijhould hxve dan no more than lvha.11
1#as hound'to do. To whichthe Governour fmilmg repliedjThac I did ho-
h'cftiy and deferved to be commended, but withall charged me not to
tranlgrefs any more, and fo let me go without any further Trouble.
Whence we may learn what difference there is^between drinking at the
Fountain, and drinking at the Current.
Mean while the Ships came on undauntedly j and were hardly fail
ed within the Bay, but defcryed a tym in an KjiJfesSkm, in Head of
an L^ffs in a Lions Skin, and difcerned a Wolfs Body with a Sheeps
Voice, the Colours they faw fpoke good , but the Ships danced
an Enrrhfh Jig, wherefore they thought it beft to tack about and make
all the fail they could : which the perceiving , out after
them all in a Body, and took the Admiral and Vice-Admiral, but
the Rere-Admiral and the other 2 made their Efcape, and could not
be overtaken. The Admiral behaved himfclf with good courage,
and had probably not bin taken if hisMizzin Peek had not bin brought
by the board. The Ship that engaged and took him was the
Freedarult , being formerly a Dutch Ship and taken by the in the
year 1665 , and was now mounted with 54,Guns. Our Admiral would
fain have boarded her but could not, for the poured inceffantly
upon them with fmall (hot, infomuch'that he was fain to yield, the
Commander liimfelf being wounded in the Leg.
The next day we were ordered to go aboard dircfting our Courfe
for ^Jfcenfton Ifland, which ferv the for a Rendezvous, where
we arrived on the 19 of Ime. Here the Men went to take Tortoifes ,
which are there in very great abundance , fom of 200 and fom
joo'b- weight. Thefe Creatures are Amphibious , that is to tay,
living as well by water as by land; but by night com upon the Strand
where they lay their EggSj which are by the heat of the Suncngen-
dred in the land. '
The Wand A'fcettjion lies in 8 degr and 30 mm. Southerly Latitude
about 40 Leagues from Saint Helem. It is altogether rocky and pro
duces nothing of growth, having in it high Hilts, yet not fo high as
thofe in Saint HeUnei. The whole Ifland is white with tne --ung of
Mews, Cormorants, and a fort of Wild-geefe that com thitherto
build and breed, as alfo to prey upon the dead Fifh which lies in
heaps upon the fhore, and in the fmall Inlets, and Creeks. ^