'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.' [‎125] (146/448)

Terjia.
'Berry,
(joyoome.
Bafe Luxury ! wherein fo much is Jpent
Learn with how little Nature is content.
Jn Gold and Myrrhe thefe drinhjiot, hut are he (I
In health, when Bread and Water is their feafl.
" ~ O prodiga rerum
Luxuries! nunquam parvo contenta paratu,
c i uara P^vo Jiceat producere vitam
Et quantum Natura petat
Non Auro Myrrhaq; bibunt, fed gurgite puro
.Vita redit j fatis eft populis fluyiufqj Cerefqj
To return. So foon as Mm had run thrice fifteen degrees in our h > w < u
mounted our melancholy Mules, and made our next ft- » we
vable in the way, faye a thick Wall of great S
toil out of the Rock as a boundary, andto faSr^t r g • c f Ut by e L xtraord,nar y
the Kingdom of L.rr in that place lerminaing ® the
Berry is a Village which promifes much at a diftance but- wh™ ^ i. i .u
pedation: Howbeit, not a little famous through the Perfian Territof iesf Sfrom the
immunities that an ancient learned Syet endued it with rnnfirm^i i! r i 1 . 001 . e
ces-, and from an Arabic!^ School which is there^rentanH rHft .^ c j e F dlI1 §
Clafles of the Ciyil Law, Aftrology, Phyfick, and whaflead, dillmguifhed into feyeral
m their Pythagorean filence, praftifing to difconrfe by winks nods anddumhfi^n f
babhng and noife in all ArabwkSchooh is detefted: They obferve two R,T S r
Obedience and Moying the Body to and fro whiles thcv be re^
School is a fewma Machit(or Mefquit) of great veneration bv heinf i-h
that great Dodor Emmm^eddey-a-mcn-^ddy-My, was a PrOThe?™fon r L 0 ,[
allied to their great sity, in this graye enjoying ^ fay thev) dBhfhS!!? L® a 2. d
His Tomb raifed four foot from the pavement is longer and larger than j
Carcafs, for it is eight foot long and coyered with a white fine lianencloth the Tomb
ftones are caryed and painted with knots and poefies of Near him are fixed
two Lances to memorize his quondam profeffion, and fome Enftens nor of orrllnL, •
yention : Upon his Coffin lie Ifet of Beads, which (if you will credk AemS
Maft t e - rS Ve ^ Ue k 11 ? mira S leS: Within the Coffin is his ^mum
r". 8 ' t ^ cbr ain3 and entrails are taken out (for they corruSe
fooneft) and the Carcafs (as they fay) is embalmed in wax or fuch eums a? Wh
delicately and are of longeft continuance. Atthe top of the (^df
wherein thefe Lmx-eyed People yiew the deformity of their fms. They alfo !h wed us'
a fquare ftone which was pierced and hung near the wall • a rare fto/e, "areJiq^ moft
notorious! for the Prophet ufedto burthen the backs of impenitents finneK wither
teUmgthemtheir impiety made it feem heavy, a weight fo ponderous as mad J them
take the right path to be quit of it. A little pot they alfo Ihew&l us, hold in? a W
reign Unguent made eight hundred yearsfince, oft ufedand (which iW miracle) never
exhanfted; tis not onely good to help fore eyes, but a Panacea (as they would have us be
heye ) agamft all Difeafes. To crown all, a Book (no of Devotion) was lafd
upon his Coffin any body may be fuffered to fee it a far off fbut to mnrh il
fumption) in ftorm and crolfe^they fay) ^
Church was neatly matted •, a Mofque of fo great veneration fhaf ,
too, lho.es Such „ jSues, (in
the like, according as their Offering is, have Itisfaaion. The 0^ (theS) they
fay never deceives them. Sed nm ego crcdulm illis ; and with that I bid farpw i -. L p
which fome make to be the firft Town in that which Sy^| L called S ZZ'
F 6 !' r ufually eXtenC J it So ? th , as far as the Gul P h having to the North"
Eaft the two CarmamJs, and Weft Suftma, according to the 5 Book of '
. nc f t fight we got to Bamarow. The laft Town fealkd us vyith traditions thk
with good chear, Mulick, Kettle-drums and fix dum Mufquets. The ruins of an an
cient Caftle (demohlhed by the PerfianJ here Ihews its ribs, through which the cool air
Wows, feldom failing from the top of that Mountain: One fide of the Ciftle wall is
anatomized to the Town, the other to the ftony Defert. Next night
bragging that it has a thoufand but ordinary Houfes. After we had repofed an hour'
oWif-m'iT" , Amballadors better repalt performed rare tricks of AfUvity, lome
laid ^ 1 u rT" two u Ihar P e gS' d with his bare feet; then
Jaid his naked back upon them,ruffenng a heavy Anvil to be fet on his belly and 2 Men to
Horfe - lh . 00 l f s "P 0 ." as f0K ' ba s they could beat; that trick end-
1? a 5 mS ^nd tlnghs thorow with many Arrows and Lances, then by meer
a erJfc ft , bead and agility of Body lift up ( no lefs than a yard from the ground )
a great ftone weighing fix hundred pound; apd then (as if heTiad done nothing) knit
his