'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎1] (22/448)

TRAVELS
Begun Anno 1616.
DESCRIBING
Divers parts of <lAF%1C the Great J
But principally the two femous Monarchies,
The MOgVL and •PEHSUS^.
PON Good-Friday, in the Year 1626. we took fhipping at Deal
near Dover, having fix great and well manned jfhips in company,
all which were bound for the Eafl-Jndies. In few hours coafting
clofe bythelfle of Wight (called fo from Gwydth a Britifh word,
lignifying cut off or ft en at diftance *, Vettis in Pltny, VeHa in Eu-
troyim ) a fudden borafque or guft aflaulted uswhich after an
hours rage fpent it felf, and blew us the third day (double fo-
lemnized that year by being the Feaft of Mother and Son) upon
the Lizards point, the utmoft promontory of Ccrmally as we
pafled*, from whence to the extremeft Gape of Africf^, in this
Voyage we compute our Longitude, and not from the Azores, albeft the firft Meri
dian.
The wind blew fair, fo as the feven and twentieth day failing by Mho in Galletia (which
if that called Terraconenfts was of old a Colony of the Perfmns) welanched into theSpa-
nifti Ocean, which we no fooner entred but defcryed feven tall Ihips, whom reputing
Enemies we boreuptofpeakwith, howbeit they proved Friends, Hollanders out of the
Levant A geographical area corresponding to the region around the eastern Mediterranean Sea. , who drunk our healths and faluted us as they paft with a roaring Gulverin, and
we in return vomited out a like grateful eccho: Thus plowing the liquid Seas in merrinefs
till the nine and twentieth day made us thefport of danger, ftrugling with fuch mighty
waves and deep Seas as oft-times made usfeem to climb up Mountains of fait water, and
were ftraightway precipitated headlong as it were 'twixt cloven Seas, a good while Hea
ven and Sea feeming undivided. This put me in mind of the third Ode in the firft lib. of
Horace, where 'tis faid
A heart of Brafs that man had fure.
Who in a Barque durft firft endure
The raging waves, not valuing life
Midft fierce South-weft and North-winds ftrife.
The Hyads (who clouds feldom want)
Nor blufiring South his ffrit could daunt.
Howbeit after thirty hours the quarrel 'twixt wind and Sea ended, for then a ferene
skve reanimated us, fo as we finilht March in the chafe of a Turkilh Pirate whom with
top-aallant top-fails and a foft wind we purlued fix hours, but being as well fitted tor
flight as fight he outfailed us. So returning to our courfe, the firft of Ajnl we cut our ^
palfaee through the Atlantkk Ocean by Arabs called faith Marmohm (from
Atlas Maurus Jafhets Son, and Brother to the Star-gazer Fromethem a Contemporary with
MoCes) from whom two famous Mountains, one in the other are c
denominate.) Long we had not been in thefe Seas, but another Barbarian Man of
War came up, fculking all night in hope to board the firft he faw divided at day-breaK
Illi robur & xs triplex
circa peftus erat a qui fragilem true!
Commifit pelago ratem
Primus j ncc timuit prsecipitem Africuni
Decertantera Aquilonibus,
nec trifles Kyadas, nec rabiem Noti,