"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" [‎٢‎١‎٤] (٤٧٠/٢٧١)

2 j 4 TheVo yagesof Struys. V oy . III.
lune. tSAVefian Tartars come to buy th«fre , and are there fo cheap that a
1670.. Itifty well-bodied youngman is ordinarily fold for ten Crowns , as
fomeofour Company were fold for the fame price. The City UtTvm
is moftly inhabited by the poorer fort of Armnim s but Mount An-
rat, by thofe of the Romish F aith, and other Chriftians.
Mount Anrat is feated juft in the parting of from Media,
and is reckoned under the rank of the and Ctfpkn Moun-
tains. The ArmenUns call it Mep and the t It is
mvtch higher than either cdticajms , or the famous T&uyus y or any other
Mountain in all Mcdi 1 , AymeniA or t'crfiit , fo far as one can view. It
is a blew, and dark-coloured Rock. 1 have found there a kind of a
dark yellow Mineral, very ponderous , and fparkling 5 but could
never learn what mettal it -would have produced if melted, nor that
of a fparkling Sand and Dull, which I alfo found here, although I
brought a proof of each, which I loft, when we were taken at Sea
by the Endt/h and plundered, as herafter fiiall be faid at large. This
Mountain is for the moft part barren, and without Earth, and what
may be further faid by way of Defcription, the Reader will find in the
Relation ofmyAfcent towards the Top of it.
My Mafters purpofe was to fell me here, but I could ealily per
ceive, that they had no great mind to buy me. The fame evening
two Carmelite Friars came to me, and afked. It I wasnotaChi-
rurgeon , or, if I had any Judgment that way ? I replied, No; but
not fatisfied with the Anfwer I gave them, they applyed themfelves
to my Patron, afking him the fame Queftionj the one of them tcl-
' ling him, that a Friend of his had a Rupture, andif I could perform
the Cure , they would give him 50 Crowns. My Matter hearing
fuch a tinkling lum of Money promifed, prefs'd very hard upon me
to undertake the Work, promifmg upon Condition thatleffefted
the Cure, he would declare me Hereat I was in agreat Itrait,
on the one hand incited by the fweet ho pes of Freedom, andonth
other daunted when I thought what a fevere penalty I was liable to,
from the hands of thofe cruel men , if I Ihould chance to miicarry.
However I took courage, and confented to take the i ^ .'
trufting in the good Grace of GOD, and hoping i.01 a hu. y u '
which alfo would have come to pafs. by the death of one of us three.
Thus 1 undertook the Journey, and was feven days before 1 caro^