'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.' [‎368] (391/448)

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Eighteen
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Malay.
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Nam-halas
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Dua-^ola'lyma.
BALY isanlfleEaft, and not far from Jam-, inhabited by Gentiles. The Women
there as yet continue the cuftom of burning at their Husbands Funeral more than in other
places in India, efpecially where the Mahometans have dominion.
Our courfe from Java to the Celebes is North-eaft; diftant from Bantam two hundred
leagues or thereabouts.
CELEBES, Cajfiteria of old, or that which Ptolomy calls Sotis Infda or Qu Nympha*
rum rnbens cub He dicitur 0 is nowbeft known by the Name of Makajfer from her bell City
fo called: an Ifle for quantity and quality very confiderable•, for it ftretches from the
Equator fix degrees South: oval in form it is, and two hundred miles long at leaft:
well peopled, but with bad People;, no place engendring greater Demonomiits or till
of late worfe Savages: agreeing with the old name Vtolomy gave the Men which was An
thropophagi or Men eaters.HowbeitjM^wrt is now known among them; but by him a malo
in pejus : for, though he teach them there is" one and but one God, yet feeing JESVS
CHRIS T is there unknown, at leaft unbelieved in, how little does that knowledge ad
vantage them? But the greateft part of the Inhabitants are Gentiles, who
Nil prater Nuhes & Cceli lumen adorant.
And ytt Antonio Tavia a Lufitanian Prieft reports that he converted many here to Chrifl,
but at this day thofe foot-fteps arc very rarely to be difcovered. From Macajfer to Cam-
byna W. N. W. are.four and twenty leagues-, and to Nojfaferes eighty are recknoned.
An Ifle fruitful, though under the moft frying part of the burning Zone. The Sun
yields them day and heat enough-, but Night their complexion. The habit they wear differs
not from their Grand-Father Adam's, a few Fig or Plantain leaves being tied about their
middles, and elfewhere naked. The better fort to vary from the vulgar are tulipanted -,
and the better to fet off their coal-black Beauties fhirt their skin with a pure white Shud-
dero which does not lenifie the fcorching heat fo much as it ferves for ornament. The
Women have adulterated their firft ftamp, not onely by deforming their Face and Body
with paint, but by that vile lubricity their Souls are Ipotted with. Impudence goes
here unmasked: for contrary to the pradice of molt places, in the night thefe drink
Rack which is their Wine, and then feem amorous: but it were well Travellers would
remember that ancient Verfe very applicable to'this place,
Nbx & Amor Vimmq', nihil moderabile fuadent.
for fuch is their damned Art, that thefe Syrens can fing fafety to themfelves, wlfen by
the fame pipe and weed they fmoak another to death: a trick they will be perfed in
though they die for it. -
Tytha-