'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.' [‎107] (128/448)

Burial-place of I(wg Erythreus. 107
Ogyris looks into the Sea, from whence Ogyris inde falo nremif -r
Carmania/w, the place of refldence f-f' f p ' rn P es
Where vrinceh Frvfiirpin, //»,'/ ■ r f Carman id is, qua fe pelagi piocul mychit undis
T ^ y ^Regis Erythrei tcllus j tic nota fepulchro
ThuTomh conmns tn mommn defoUu. Tenditur. &nudis juga tantum canto h o„ct.
his Sepulcher being leen by Nearchus and Onhagoras upon a Hill planted with Tree. •
a report confirmed hj Mythrofafies a Perfian Satrapa, who fled Jhither to avoid thl
Anger of King Darms. Which Erythrem was a vidlorious Prince by land, and recntai the
great Mafter of Marine Arts and Navigation ; by the Greeks elpecially, by whom he is
fuppofed to he Janus and Saturnm mentioned in Berofm ; from whofe example Sefoftris iirffc
taught it the /Egyptians, as Bacchus did the Indians. Notwithftanding which, we mav
not conciude that £ 7 rW wasthefirft, feeing was the former praditioner in
that Art, for which we have the belt authority i and that it was long before the bfr h
either of Xto^or Neftme, who by reafon thereof and of their antiquity nevertheleft
were ranked in the catalogue of the Heathen Gods: And without controverfie, it was
front them the Phffimcians derived their skill, and from them the Egyptians, who in-
ftruded the Greeks, (amongftwhom the Cretans excelled even to a proverb,
nefat relagm l Isthere a Cretan that cannot fail ? ) from whom the Romans had their
Sea-knowledge, and of whom Femce wA Gem., were the leaders. But to return to I™
tUem. For proof hereof obferye what PUny I. 3. c. jo. records concerning him, S
turauhw, tnman mbro mter wfalas ah Erythrao rege Moreover
fo intricate is what we find in reference to thefe two Gulphs tfe Arabian and Perfan!
and fo equivocal is the word Erythr^m, that I cannot refrain the giving you a dance
thereof, to the end you may the better help in this dilemma. 1 L- 9 we read
MtHiram Kmg of Tyre furnilhed King Solomon with Ships and mariners for his voyaee
to ^ That was a City m Phcemcia (part of and frequently mentioned
m Holy Writ) is evident, albeit in the original 'tis 2«-, as we fee in the margent of
1 Re*. 9. 11. and haying the cedars of Z^W at command, permitted to cut
vvhat he pleafed towards the building ofthe Temple: Soas'tis undeniable that Tvr. was
part of byna, whoft chief City was Damafcm. Neverthelefs, feeing Hiram furnilhed
5.W with wood for his Ships that were bound for it Could not otherwife be
than thatthe placeor dock to build wasat Ez.ton-gchcr upon the Red-lea; fo that if oaks
or other Wood fit for Ships was cut in Phcenicta or any part then 'tis probable
that from Pelnfrnm it was by fledge or camels brought thence to the Red-fea albeit
Solomons extent of Jurifdidion thence ftretching into that part of Arabia could as well
command their wood as haven: But that he had the freedome of thofe parts and coun-
treys, appears both by his Fleet that rode, and his perfonal being there as in 2 CW
• i7 * t o™on went to Ezion-geber and to Ehth (which was near it) upon the Sea fide
in the Land of Edom> and Hiram fent him Ships and Servants that were expert in fea-
a airs, and they ^accompanied Solomons Servants to Ophyr? whence they brought four
hundred and fifty Talents of Gold. Yet that there was a alfo in this Sea, we learn
and who teftifie that Tyrtts efi
mlkjtadm a Car mama dtjtans,m qua Erythre* regis
Imeft &fylv e finhus falms conftms •, hie Erythram Concerning which
Tyrt, Stejhmm de ^M«xagreeth, Efl&Tymi
rmTylonvocat. By, which it is of fome difficulty to find the direft place/ feeingtheone
lays this Ifle of Tyrus is within the Red-fea , (which mare lignifies • ) the
other, in the Perlian Gulph, implied by its vicinity to In lixth
Geographick Table of J/ia it is alfo termed which, with the neighbouring
"land Arathos are placed under the latitude of twenty live degrees. But how the Anci
ents diftmguilhed thefe two Gulphs the Arabian and Perfian is no lefs abftrufe, thev
feem fo confufedly related to by Authors. For Nearchm Admiral in thefe
Indian Seas) giving his Mafter an account of his Voyage, amongft other obfervations
relates, that being by ftorm driven into the Red-fea (fo 'tis tranflated, albeit in
die original the woras be K oat ®- ) there he had the fight of King his
lomb*, who though he lived in Carmama died in an Ifland two thoufand furlongs from
that main land, (which Ifle Straho called Tirnid) where he was buried. Now albeit the
Ked-fea be mentioned in this Story, we well know molt Writers agree that Nearchus
lailedonly from Dm or fome other part of the River Indus up to Baljora which is at the
bottom of the Perfian Gulph: For, as concerning Alexanders failing from IndmtoSoco-
ora, where he met his Mate Ariftotle, and at his perfwafion planted the Ifle with a
^ 2 Colony