"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" [‎٢‎٥‎٨] (٤٧٠/٣١٩)

The Voyages of V oy .III.
kept opea T^for feveral days together, whilft nothing was tal-
,67.. " ked of but Vifits and Banquets. My Patron profeffing Chnftiamty
was excufed from thefe Expences , holding out, that he being a
Chriftian could not fafely maintain Superftition. This
was a happy time for our Gentlemen 5 who now with A.uthoiity
went a mumping among the Pe nor did 1 think it good to dine,
with Duke Humphfcy> fo long as I hadfuchan honeft to
addrefs my felf to, whither I went and was very kindly entertained.
On the 3i we received a Letter from one of our Company, who
was a Slave in Scemkal , altho there was no name fet to it, at which we
wondred; yet did beleeve it was Munfter the Diamond-cutter.
The Contents was , That he underftood how that there were 2
.c Ca , c h Chirurgeons at Scamachy whom he intreated to redeem
« him, and he would order the Money to be paid at The Letter
was delivered to us by order of the Chan, but we had not the Power
to do any thing for him; yet underftood not long after, that the faid.
Munflcr was carried to ifptihan as Captiv, or Slave.
On the 25 we got a Letter from Meyndert one or our
Company, which was direfted to my Patron Bochdan : theContents
thereof being much at one with the former > yet he gave no other
account of his faft Refidence, than that he was a Slave and lived not
far from Derbcnt , where being a Smith by hisTrade he made Wea
pon s for his Mafter. He was afterwards bought by a 01 Bacchu
and fmceredeemed by7. yanTermun
The next day happened a Fray between 2 , the A^baf-
fadors Countrcymen, who hacked and hewed fo long with their Scy-
miters till they had hardly a free hand-breadth in their Bodies that
was iiot Wounded, norcouldourAmbaifadour part them, notwith-
todmg means hecoulduft, whereas every one hasthe Free-
nied with fcal^Flaflres of Lightnfng and Thunder : On rbs
d^ Jas alfo feen at Scamachy and other places in huge Balls
nf^e which feemed to be hurtd down from Heaven, with foch
Fore; as if the Bands of the World would be diffo ve. : ^
the moll dreadful fight that ever I have feen in my life. The Ham
thereof was blewilh like Sulphur when it burns, ^