"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" [‎٢‎٨‎٠] (٤٧٠/٣٤٥)

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I weighing the danger of the Cofacs who ftill molefted the Cajpim.
Sea, durft not refolv thereupon , but defired her to put that out of
her mind. She perceiving me not at all flexible to imbrace her Propo-
fals, grew on a fudden very Heartlefs and dejefted, and with a deep,
figh {aid, mil,I find myfelfm defpair of ever coming mto Chrijlendom,
the mil of GOD he don: and feeing y Ifpahan you-
Tvoald do Tvell to take jout foutnej Tvitb my Hush and, Tt? ho intends if the ^eafoa^
prove good to fet forTvard to morrow, y Incredible was-my Joy to -
hear the news, that my Patronwastotakethejourney fofuddenly,-
who had an entire and unfeigned Love for me , as 1 have already'
fhown, About 2 hours after my coming thither came my Patron him--
felf, who underftanding by my Patronefs that I was com to take-
my laft leav of him, bade me fit down, and after a friendly welcom
told me if 1 would go along .with him to Ifpahan , he would bear my
Charges. I accepted of his" kind.Offer, with all telling him, how-
that 1 was afliamed of tiie freedom I had aflumed to myfelf in being
a continual burthen and Change xo him : but fmce it was aninten- •
tion of his toheap yet greater favours upon me, I pray'd him to admitt
2 more of my Gouatreymen into.onr Company, to wit, L.F»hru■-
tim and chriflian Brandt, who were redeemed by the Ea(i-lndia Com--
pany, upon the Interceffion of Uonh.Termund, they bearing their <
own Charges; He made, anfwer, John, fhall
altho there ere:Twenty of em. When all was in a readinefs I-went to
o-ive my Patronefs the laft Adieu, and obferved that Tears ftood m.
her Eies. William B. Klopper I would fain have had along with us., but
he judged it. better to ftay with the Legate, thinking to come <
that way, and thro CMrfcoyia foonerhorae., than by the the
more becaufe he found himfelf unfound of Body , and very unfit*
to undertake fo great a J ourney, and after that,fo long a Voyage, and.
pafs the Line twice; thus with Tears we took our Leavs of each
other, with order that-who foever did firft arrive at home ihould
wive an account of the laft Condition he left the reft in. The fame,
dav that we left Scamacht I met v/ith , who, as-
\va^ laid in Fag. 2 5 8 , being a Smith by his Trade, made Knives and
Swords for his Patron at Bachu , and had continued fo long in Slavery,
this Place being the moft noted in all the Countrey for Steel andiron
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