"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" [‎٢‎٦‎٨] (٤٧٠/٣٣١)

The Voyages of iohn Struys. Vox. Ill, ^
w^r. in what was done. But the Ambaffadour who had been fo long at the fj?
16?i, Academy of P'enus, was fuch an expert Proficient that he could lay r
his Leflbn with out book as well as .his Domeftics, take'em one for-
one: and in fhort had fuch compaffion on her that he fent her away ;"®
a free Remiflionary, but not without reconciling her to her Has- 'jj
band. Soon after the Gentlemen alfo got inlargement. 1
On the 2 2 a Youngman (according to Sentence paffed upon him)
was beat to death with Sticks, being to pafs thro the Town and at
the Corner of every Street to receiv a certain number of Blows., till ft*
at laft he dropped down dead. This was mainly occafioned upon
the requeft of his unnatural and mercilefs F ather, who was an eminent jiip 111
Gentleman, and Inhabitant The Crime for which he ifWi«
was accufed was a kind of Satyr , or a Pifquil, which he had written I], i»
and fent to the Governour: the main purport whereof was in thefe nqtod
Words. WfTf comes it that yourLordffa-gr'Sthtt.nilotfafuddenf-
Who haspo/e/ed j our mud totfter-jhafe contitmed /,k Ferfians I utis Ji
j/td do Dishonour uilio'all /^.Muliilmans and the tehefc. nljntt
Kingdom in geneyd? Or are,^,indeed}>eLom aChrifii*n? Ihis lnno-
vation he meant, was an Interdiction which the Governour,
had iifueci 3 days after the-Praceffion , That none ihouJd hew and cut soft
(as was their Cuftom) with Swords- in the Streets, like,as we have
fpoke more amply in the teailof .J/j'. Phe,Father,.fomfaid,, durit iwotiH
not but make complaint, , left it fliould have been imputed to hi nir [oupjjj
felf as Mifprifion, it being well known by odiers, that it was his Son 1^1
who fent the Libel. But it may be obferved that thofe who would
put the affair in that Pofture, were either prejudic'd.or byalfed Per- ^
Ions. But others who \ycre iiidiftcreut looked upon it as an Example
of Unmercifulnefs and Ambition , where lie only did it forHopes. ^
of Favour froni .the Chan , which be efteemeda Purchafeequivalent
to his fons Life. The next day was another Man beat to Death, by ^
7 ofthe Chans Domeftic? befoxe the Gates of the Palace,, butfotwhat
I could not learn. , , , r ,
uttot- Upon the 2 6 we got another,Narrativ, wliieh cennrmed the ror,mcr ^
J^jgws from i^Ajlrachm > as alfo, how that Radqjn wasearried to l
&. ecu. In the mean while Mr. ymTermtind makes preparation to gofer
jfpahan , and with all diligence makes up a Company, to the end that
he might travel more fccu,re ? there being then a great rumor of many ^