'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.' [‎152] (173/448)

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old Wizard (covetous of gain) promifes his beltand accordingly by fpells fo perple x .
ed the deluded Sultan, that upon the Witches aflurance of fair quarter he defcends j but
the Block rewarded him. Abhas acknowledges the Enchanter merited his price: But
while the Wizard dotes upon his gold, he fees not that danger was at, hand *, for the
Kin* grudging the lofs, and knowing no better way to recover it but for being a Witch
feuds him to Satan without his head; making that the oCcafion of his juftice, which but
a little before he held ufeful, though then difliked it. To return.
Moyown ( a Town of note upon the road betwixt Shyraz, and Spahawn) is very delight
fully ieated •, enriched alfo with fweet Water, excellent Wine, plenty of Wood, Itore
of Grafs, and diaper'd with Nature's Carpets. - It belongs to their highly honoured
Prophet Rmaely whofe Tomb in a well-built Machit called Emoom I^mad is herefeenj
conliderably endow'd through the liberality of many Princes and Great Men: For to
wards its maintenance yearly twelve thoufand mawnd-jhaw of Rice, and four thoufaud
of Barley is allowed. Next night we lodged ( flept 1 cannot fay, we were fo vexed with
Mefjiuto's) in O-jone, a Village coniifting of thirty Familiesmoil of them Prophets or
Prophets Children. We ftill found leaft profit, where fuch Prophets dwelt, feeing they
drunk no Wine, nor were Grapes allow'd to grow amongft them: Not that Wine
there is held bad, but from fome Tradition, and probably that it is the Blood of thofe
Giants who warred againft the Heathen Deities. Nor was the Water in their Tancks fo
wholefom as might merit commendation*, albeit the Confervatory was as good as any
we faw till then:, being large, and plaiftered with a compolition of lime,and fand with
fome glutinous matter (as 1 apprehended) which made it both large and fmooth j fo
that it feemed to be no other than natural ftone, and 'better than what we call Plaifier
of Paris, Such were the Gifterns. or Tancks in old Rome as Pliny tells us: and of like Art
were thofe flender Marble Columns our fore-fathers have feen call or made for Cathe :
drals llrudures*, reckon'd inter res pertHtas hj Pancirollm.
Next day we rode over fome craggy and fteep Hills, and at night made Tartang our
Marine el: A fmall Town molt remarkable in a Mefchit, wherein we beheld a Monument or
Tomb which was raifed a pretty heigh: from the ground, and cover'd with violet coloured
Velvet - , under wliichlies buried a Great-Uncle of the Kings. Next night we came to JJfe*
pfl/f, a place obfervable onely in an old Callle, which was fometimes a Garrifon: in
and about which inhabit ( as we were told ) no fewer, than forty thoufand Georgians and
Sarcafhes, who by profeflion are Chriftians'-, albeit little better than captives^ being for
cibly tranfplanted hither. They are a People have Saint George the Cappadocian Bifhop
in veneration, being their Patron. From Mahometans they difrer(not in habit nor mode,
but) in their gray eyes, a great argument of heat, fayes •jirifiotle, as black is of the
contrary, the colour of moft Perfians, and have long white hair which after the mode *
of thofe antick Gallants recorded by Pliny and Lucian they wear tiffued with fillets of iilk
and gold or fdver. if any of thefe (which, is too too often) turn Mahometan-, they are
itfofatto preferred beyond vulgar merit. Poor Souls! hearing that we were Chrifliam,
they not onely flocked about us, but wept to fee us: Nor wanted we bowels of com
panion to behold Chriflian in fuch a miferable thraldom and condition, and under fuch
temptations. Nor far diftant hence is Thymar *, memorable (if By^ar err not) in an an
cient monument,by fome Hebrew Charaders fuppofed to be the Burial-place of Bathjhek
the Mother of King Solomon: which probably may be miftaken for Bethfhemejh,whicn lig-
nifies a Houfe dedicated to the Sun: Howbeit 'tis calkd Mechit-Zukimen, i. e. Solomon\
Chappel, a place (if truly fo) well worthy feeing.
Next night we lay in Whomgejh *, next in Ci4z.cuz.ar, next we came to Ba^eba-chowiZnd next
to Degardow: Eight leagues from which place (and near Tez.dycawjwe rode over a moun
tain of black Marble, (where doubtlefs are quarries of Serpentine and Porphyre,if the earth
were examined: ) the defcent was precipitious; fo that lave by ragged Iteps, and thofe
not a little dangerous, was no riding down. Out of this part of the moun
tains the River Rhogomana fprings-, which having watered runs into the Perfian
Gulph. Howbeit, down we got, and that night rode to Gmihawllello ; a Village fa
mous for a Cdrravans-raW) and for the belt Wheat-bread in Perfia. Next night we came
to Tezdecawz., a Town which ftands pleafantly in a narrow Vally, the ground on each
lide declining gently, fo as no Hill appears near it, the countrey round about for fotne
miles being even and Champain: It is hardly to be feen or found till very near the
place, did not a Caftle point it out which was built by Tezdgyrd a Per (tan King above the
Town long fince, as this Name partly intimates. Here is'a very Mtth Carravam-rw>
the belt from thence to Bander on the Gulph of Perfia.
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