'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.' [‎240] (261/448)

Cambyfes frantiq
fome reduce from but I rather think from ^fe i. e ^r^ ia Hebrew) the
Princefs The formerly though in vain courted for his Wite) attronted. him with an Army
eaual for number and not inferiour for refolution. So that both fides appearing defi-
rous to engage, after a hot difputethe Queen became vidonous *, and having Cyrm[ n
her power, the death of her SonSpargflpizes (to whom Cyrm refufed quarter not long
before) coming frefh in memory, flie commanded his Head fliould off, and then threw
it into a Veflel filled with blood, with this expreffion, Cyrm! now drinkjhy filL So writes
Hcrodomm&.Juflin. Neverthelefs, rd. Magnm and eport otherwife: as. That
at the age of feventy years, and the nine and twentieth of his Reign he died in peace,
and was with all due ceremony buried at Pafargada a City in Sufiana which he had found
ed. With which agrees Xev. lib. 8. Infllt. So that how uncertain foever the place and
manner of his death be, 'tis more certain , That hisbody was mtombed ztPafargada, fa.
ingthat Alexander the great returning thither out of India inconfiderately put to death
Or Cm a Prince of the Blood-Royal of Perfia upon a fuggeftion of that malicious Eunuch
Bazoos that he had violated Cyrm his Tomb, upon which was onely this plain Epi
taph,
Heusf tu homo i Ego'fum Cyrus, Cambyfis
Qui Perficum imperium conftitui,
Regnator fui totius Afia?.
Ne mihi ergo Monumentum invideas.
fio I man ! /Cyrus Cambyfes5
Who firfi the Per fan Monarchy begun.
The Afiatic Empire I controlled.
Envy not then that this [malt place / hold.
To Cyrus the magnificent (for fo he is called) fucceeded his Son *, a Prince in
nothing refembiingthe magnanimity of his Father; being infamous for his cruelty and
prodigious luft: But his Reign wasfhort (not exceeding nine years,) yet turbulent.
Outrage as 'tis obferved is commonly attended with a Ihort life. For, having fubdued
v£gy$t and Ethiopia as far as Elephantina (whofe neighbour the Troglodites (never
having been tributary to any) refufed fo much as to fend him of their Earth and Water
(which lalt they could ill fpare) in token of their fubjedion *, fo well fenced were they
withrowling fandsand heat intolerable) in a jealous humour by the hands of that villain
Praxafiis he made away his onely Brother Smerdis? and having no iifue of his own the
anguifli thereof difpofed him fo to frenzy, that it increafed upon the tidings brought
'that fifty thoufand of his men (whom he had fent to burn the Temple of Jupiter Ammon
which flood in Barca that confining part of Cyrene formerly called Marmorica) were bu
ried in thofe hideous waves of Sand, which Satan (who oft-times commands the air) had
raifedfortheprefervationof his Worfhip: A ftorm againft which there was no ihelter
norevafion, as Herodotus I. 2. albeit pre-cautioned by the P///*, who fuffered the like
fate for that fimple challenge they gave the South-winds for the injury they did them in
drying up their few Rivolets. With which not being admonifhed, but rather hardned, in
revenge he forthwith demolilhed the Temple of at broke the neck of
that beaftly Deity, of great veneration with the Egyptians; who indeed were fo pro-
digiouQy Idolatrous, that Varro reports of them, Omnia animalia (excepto porco) tanquam
Deos colebant. And at Damafcm going about the like pranks (which had been good had
the zeal been rightly grounded) he was cafually wounded by his own Sword, fo mortally
that he could not be recovered, but in that extremity died frantick and unpitied.
The Deputy he had left to fuperintend Perfia had a Son refembled Smerdis: whom he
vefted with the Imperial Robe and Crown which Cyrm left: and that device paft currant
until the impofture wasdifcoveredby- a Lady of his own Seraglio who was Daughter to
Ottanes a Satrapa of no mean accountwho one time telling her Father what ihe obferved
he acquainted the feven fubordinate Princes how that the pretended Smerdis wanted his
ears. Quickly they found the means to give him his defert, after he had as an impolture
worn the Diadem eight years.
The feven Princes who had the fuperintendency ofthe Realm not knowing of any right
Heir to the Crown, found out no better expedient for an Eledion, than by agreeing,
That he fliould Reign whofe Horfe neighed firft next morning after the rifing Sun: which
being publiihed, that night Darius his ingenious Groom made his mafters Horfe cover a
Mare in the place appointed ; fo that he no fooner entred the field next morning, but
the Horfe (mindful it feems of his late entertainment) fell to neighing couragiouily,
which the reft of the competitors (ignorant of that craft) accepted as an undoubted
prefage of his merit, and with all due ceremony faluted him with the Regal Name j at
Perfagard the Arch-flamen put upon his ihoulders the Veft and upon his head the Crown or
Royal Tiara which the great Cyrm had on at his Coronation. Howbeit, by being lineally
defcend-