!['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.' [‎369] (392/448)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023517877.0x000001/215.e.12._0392.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'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.' [‎369] (392/448)")
'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.' [369] (392/448)
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Who have no fear nor fliame for their offence 5 Quae vero nec crubcfcunt
But hardned are with brazen impudence- Ncc metuunt.
refembling thofe mentioned by Pliny lib. 7. cap. 2. named BythU, qua yupllas Unas hah em
in fingnlvs oculisj in quels erat vis it a Natural is at vifn ejfafcinant & inter imant quos diutim intu-
antur, oculis prafertim iratis, tkc. No lels lewd and cunning in this hellifh Art was Far if at is
the Queen-mother who poifoned Statyra Wife to Artaxerxes by carving her half a Bird
with a Knife that was invenomed but upon one fide, as you read in Plutarch. And which
is no lefs mifchievous, the men ufe long canes or trunks called Sempitans out of which
they blow a little pricking quill, which if it draw the leaft drop of blood, it deftroys im
mediately : Some venoms operate in an hour; others in a moment^ the veins and body
(by the virulency of thatpoifon) corrupting and rotting prefently, even to terrour and
amazement. You cannot chufe but think this a Hell upon Earth, though at our firft ap
proach upon fight of fo goodly an Ifland, we thought it an EUfinm : but remembring
That
Jmpia fuh dalci me He venena latentj
we haftened away for better places*, the MoUccoes I mean, which Ttolomy calls Synda: than
which, no part of the Univerfe gives more delight or greater varietie of refrefliment.
Bbb By
Pythagoras made the Wantbns of Crotond modeft and the men moderate. To thefe
let me add with the Poet, Jam qui corrigat^ alter erit. This Artifice of thefe lewd ones may
run parrallel with that Maid who by cuftomary eating of Napellw (the moll" dangerous
Poifon, fome fay, of all Vegetables) hurt not her felf, but poifoned fuch as had carnal
knowledge of her. So as verily, that which Menander applied to the lewd Cypriots or
Propatid* very properly alludes unto thefe Courtezans,
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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.
Publication Details: London : printed by R. Everingham, for R. Scot, T. Basset, J. Wright, and R. Chiswell, 1677.
Edition: In this fourth impression are added (by the author now living) as well many additions throughout the whole work, as also several sculptures, never before printed.
Notes: Numerous engraved illustrations, including maps, views of cities and animals, printed within the text. Engraved plate entitled "Rvines of Persæpolis" is signed "W. Hollar fecit 1663". Misprinted page number: 711 instead of 117. Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description: [6], 399, [21] p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill., maps ; 32 cm. (fol.)
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- '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.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:iii-v, 1:8, 1:242, 242a:242b, 243:418, iv-r:vi-v, back-i
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- Herbert, Thomas
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