"رحلات جون ستريز المحفوفة بالمخاطر والأكثر تعاسة، عبر إيطاليا، اليونان، لايفلاند، موسكوفيا، تتاريا، ميديا، بلاد فارس، الهند الشرقية، اليابان، وغيرها من الأماكن في أوروبا، أفريقيا، وآسيا. تحتوي على، I. أكثر الملاحظات دقة للصفات المميزة، الدين، تنظيم المجتمع، التقاليد، القوانين، وممتلكات السكان؛ II. وصف وافٍ للعديد من المدن، البلدات، الحصون، وأماكن المعالم التاريخية، بخصوص موقعها وقوتها، وتحصنها بالطبيعة، أو الفن وغيرها، مع أشياء أخرى جديرة بالملاحظة: و III. مذكرة دقيقة بأكثر الكوارث المفجعة التي شهدها المؤلف في تلك الأماكن (ومنها) حطام سفينة غارقة، عمليات سرقة ونهب، الرِق، الجوع، والتعذيب، بالإضافة إلى العديد من الأمور الأخرى المزعجة فضلًا عن المصاعب الأخرى" [‎١‎٢‎١] (٤٧٠/١٧٠)

Chap. II. The Voyages of m
rktskoti , is a large City, a great part thereof is furrounded with a octoe.
wall, the reft with huge Balks like Fallizados, and computed abou 1 i€ 7 s '
8 [ English ] miles in compafs. Their Houfes are made lleightly of
Trees and pieces of Timber, let in with joynts, without any Gentility
or ornament. The Town it felf gives a noble Prolpccl if you view
it from without, by reafon of the many Parifh - Churcl" and
Towers it has, but when you come within, it appears Very ugly, the
llreetsare irregular without Unitormity, and the Houfes built after
multifarious manners, fo that the pooreft Village, in the
fm, wlii is aParadice in comparifon of Fletsh is true they have fome Houfes
dioaoftk offtone, but the moft eminent and wealthy Citizens chufe rather to
iarfa live in Wooden-Houfes than in thofe, for that they fay. The latter are
[y-jef!, more wholfom. Here I happened to meet with a , and
after we had exchanged a few words together , concerning our
journey from Riga , I told him of my rouzing the Bear. He replyed that
I was happy to make my efcape fo, fince not only men are fometimes
devoured by them, but alfo Horfes and Kine, and withal told me,
how that they dig up the Graves for the Bodies of the Dead, when
they are hungry. But more lamentable was a ftory he told me, of a
She-Bear, that in the year i6y6. b Houfe
not far from thence, Mvhere she had found Woman
Infant in the bed Tvith her* TheTvoman
left leg and a litle of the Scalp, but altogether mifi,
laas concluded that the Bear had eaten confequently
more delicate. Tiot long after this difmd Pea fan t
Tvith him into the Mods not far from his
Trhich haunted his Fish-pond, and by t Bear, at
his Mafquet, and hits him dsreBly on the skull. The Bear( as
shot) rolls hmfelfin aheap , the Peafant
'Crtu; and her Duggs full of Milk, refohes the next d
nieisl 1 ! for then he thought that her Whelps
(his ^ filtoTfing he Tvent out to feek the Cave, taking 2 cr 3 other
ever 1'' Tvho being akout the 'JTiitddle ofthe Wood,
goots# chdi cry, and folloTvingthe direction , oTvn
jjgs M' 1 the cleft of a great Rock, Vahich hetosk an Pletskou, to nurfid
"eafa h his Wives Sifter, inhere out ofcurio ft ty
In the Suburbs otPletskou , wastobefeena fhank-bone of a Giant,
5 foot