'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.' [‎218] (239/448)

zi 8 'Bubbles ofojlentation
as then they have the liberty to go to dinner. What may we then think of the Pesuan
Monarch, of him of Mattacala and Manicongoy who nourifli fo high a conceit of their ra
diancy that Heathen Ambafladours and others are required to creep like Worms and
hide their Faces, left their eyes fliould be blear'd in gazing on fuch a luftre ? Or of that
faftidious Monomotafhan, who feldom goes abroad or fliews himfelf, in compaffion ♦■o
his people, left they fliould be ftruck blind in eying him, a curtain weakening the beams
that other wife would iilue from his face; but are permitted to ufe their Ears to admir
his champs when he eats and the gulps when he drinks: but pay foundly for it, at everv
gulp and cough (he coughs fometimesyoumay fuppofe of purpofe) they fhoutforjov
and Stentor-Vike make the place to ring again. And feeing like pride appears in the Pa
pai Prince Boniface we find in Fafc. Temp, that not content with the Title of Univer
sal Bifhop, he intitled himfelf Lord of the whole World; but Sextw 4. his Succeflbr
foar'd a itrain above him in that Panegyrick up6n the triumphal Arch as hefirfteutred
Rome being writ, InTerrts-, crederls ejfe Dew. Therefore we may lefs wonder that Prefler.
John they call him having never read Saint Cyprian adQair. In mllogloriandum
e fi\ MM noftrnmnihil efi,) adorns his Myter with fifteen Provincal Titles, adding, That
he is head of the Church, the Favourite of God, the Pillar of Faith-, iflued from
won, David, Judahy and Abraham ; 5^prop, extrad from the Virgins hand, Son of
Saint Peter and Saint Paul by the Spirit, and of Nahn by the flefti *, In thefe, more vagrant
than his other reftlefs motions *, in vain fecluding himfelf from the view of man by a
thin lawn, fince in his fwelling impofthumes his Pourtraid is difcovered : A Canker alfo
fpreading North as far the other way, to that other kind of Heathen Chriftian by name
Ivan Vrfilomch a Tyrannick Mnfcovite, whofe Coronation Anno Domini 1584. was cele-
brated with wonderful magnificence, befideshisFurrs loading himfelf with two and thirty
bubbles of oftentation. All which confidered, we may fay, Wellfare Anrelim, Saladin. and
l amberlaney Heroes as great, as vidorious, and as terrible to the world as any of thefe we
have lately named; who fo detefted flattery that they bluflied at their deferved praifes-
and fome at their burials caufing their winding iheet to be difplayedas an epitome of all
tney merited', proclaimed aloud,d- Vmbra fmm, &c. But to return; let us now
proceed on in our journey.
ab ° uttel ? at night, thereby avoiding the Suns too much warmth: and
rahlp fn^, r 7 ^ 0m the A " tl P 0 ? es S ot inco : a fmall Town, but memo.
^ rpf!l t h^ C C etC c 0 l water ^ had i, herc to q" en ch our thirft with; an Element more
UetiU than Fire in Sun-burnt^. Our nextManzeil wasat At ^««our next;
caieofr.V n a royalCarravans-raw or Hofpital of Charity, erefted at the coit'and
heakh^f^ll ? S a e ^ a \ A ^', d ^ thc water (which is blackiftandun-
da? on t \ c but correfpond with other delights it has, it might merit better commen-
ruine r>V w Sdwaywe got next night; a Town both great and fruitful: Butthat it is the
moft T wam wvn ( as guefles) I cannot credit, feeing
MIT I r that . Cit y in MedtafHfertor or neighbouring But that it was
Meffahatha or Anacam I more eafily believe. The Pole is here raifed 3 degrees minutes
fff 1 ' P^^lyuponarifing hill giving ground to twelve hundred houfes,"
.K 1V( l frT . MouI ?f. am ^refrelhing it; from which and the peoples in-
thank , ful ^t h retributes a Tribute in variety of choice fruits and grain as
W leat,Rice,Barley, Figs, Pomgranads, Olives and Honey; the feven, the promifed Liud
inthe8.D«tf.8. is commended for. lam fureof this, 'noplace lever came in more
delighted me for aerial Mufick', andofall the Quire Collection of papers folded in half and stitched together to form a gathering of folios. , the Nightingale rwemv cnaXr
(here call'd Bulhds) claiming the preheminence; refrellimentvery acceptable to wearv
Travellers: a Bird whofe excellency the fecond belt of Roman Poets thus celebrates,
Satoe me voces avium Philomela coegit, J m the ^ p^j
^eanm eunSaa exuperat yolucres. Wh Birds in
.Uulcis arnica vein! noftisfolatia uraeftanq ^ ^ r • ;i J w excel.
litter aves etcnim nulla tibi fimilis. ' In^alKl j ^ J ^ ^
Tu Philomela potes vocum difcriminamille ■ "41 r ^ ,
Malle potes varios ipfa refeire modos. ' ^thoHfMdwarhlmjr Notes thy throat difplays -
Nam quamvis aliae volucres modulamina tentent n ^ jmet chant s ** many ways.
Nulla poteft moduli's aequivalere tuis. ' r 6 Birds may flrive to equal thee,
Infuper eft avium fpatiis garrire diurnis,* fif never ca n attain like harmonic.
Tu cantare fimul nofte dieq; potes' L ,^ la fi no lon g er than the day,
Bnt thine doth chafi the filent night away.
Our next nights travel
was ovei large plains, raifed a little in many places by artificial
mounts,