"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" [‎٢‎٦‎٢] (٤٧٠/٣٢٥)

' z6z The Voyages of lohn Struys. V oy . HI.
enlargement promifing to impart fom weighty and important aftair
1&714 to the King.
I have already made mention, how that about 2 years before,
had difpatched 7 Ambafladors to the Court at ifpahan defiring a
Supply of Men and Ammunition, as alfo to enter into a League with
the King: butbyreafon the Cofa had plundered
bath and Lenkerm , and committed many infolent Outrages within
his Majefties Territories) and that Rad&tn was not by any acknow
ledged as a Soveraign Prince, his AmbalTadors found a very unkind
Reception at Court, and meeting with fome menacing Sentences
in their Inftructions , the King caufed their Heads to be fevered
from their Bodies, referving only one to bring back the Tidings, who
was upon his delivery of the Meffage ordered by Rd^tn himfelfto
be chop'd into Gobbets, as may be read more at large in 192 ,
193. So that I held it ftrange that would affumethe
freedom to fend any more Legates, without other Ground of Hope,
On the 25 was a Per /Ian of reputed Sanctity murthered by a
fian aim after a very bafe degenerate manner. The Murtherer was forth-
wmher. with apprehended and brought before the Prince , where he was
^ accufed of the Fact , and confequently delivered to the neareft
Allies of the Patient to ufe at their difcretion, as is cuftomary
in Perfi* ■. for rarely it happens that either the King , 1 mice,
Deputie or the Civil Magiftracy take notice of fuch delinquencies,
but turn over the Malefaftor to the aggrieved Parties, whoittney
be Poor oftentimes fell their Vengeance for Money , after which
the Law is filent: but here the Delinquent had not that fortune,
for, the Brother of the Murthered Party had neither Poverty nor
Mercy , but fo foon as permiflion was granted him , he caule
two Men to hold him down till he had ftabbed him with the lame
Weapon , faying , Get thee hen, ,
Tvhom thoubelongtft ; for the was a drunken Fellow , and
executed in the fame fit of Drunknefs wherein he had fo far miftake
himfelf, fo that the Murther, Complaint and Execution wexe a
done in the fpace of three Hours. jj "
^ On the 3 of May fell out a dolefull Tragedy at a Wedding, where
pttinf- w hen all the Company were in the middeft of their mirth, an
fage atk - - jjIlClv" 1