VOYAGE INTO : TARTARY. CONTAINING A Curious Defcription of that Country, with part of Greece and Turky ; the Manners, Opinions, and Religion of the Inhabitants therein; with fome other Incidents. By M. Heliogenes De L’ Epy |: Doétor in Philofophy.” ~ Primi Mortalium quique ex bis geniti naturam incorruptt Sequebantur, eamdem habeant dy ducen 9 legem, commiffi melioris arbitrio, Sen. Ep, XC, WN at Ae London, Printed by T. Hodgkin, and are to be fold by Randal Taylir near Stationers Hall. 1689, Early Engiish Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC images reproduced by courtesy of British Libraryhe Pridhtfl of the fon prchcnted ry cel 7 a youth th dhe Tomplet e Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library oe eet a a & VOYAGE INTO | TARTARY.- CONTAINING A Curious BDefcription of that Country, with part of Greece and Turky ; the Manners, Opinions, and Religion of the Inhabitants therein; with fome other Incidents. By M. Hteliogenes De L’ Epy |: y Dottor i Philofopky. Primi Mortalium quique ex his geniti naturam incorrupti Sequebantur , eamdem habeant dy ducem Cy legen, commiffi: melioris arbitrio. Sen. Ep, XC, London, Printed by T: Hodgkin, and are to be fold by Randal Taykr near Stationers Hall. 1689,| TOTHE | Right Honourable THE — | EARL i NICVM | : . jor4 NRICARDE My Lord, HE Good Fortune. which has always at- - f tended me by Sea and § Land, in my laft Travels in- f to the Levant, incourages me fto prefume, thar that fame t Providence, which more OA efpeci- WN SR seem aM Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British LibraryEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The Epiftle efpecially affigns certain Ge- | niuss to watch over the fafety of fuch Perfons, which tt culls out for che Execution of the greateft Enterprifes, caft an Eye upon me, from the very Moment that I de- parted from London, with a Refolution to find your Lordfhip out, in whatever part of the World you were. That Providence doubtlefs it was,which having {natch’d me from the gaping Jaws of Dragons in France, and deliver'd me from feveral dangers and hazards which I ran both upon the one and the other Sea, diverted alfo Dedicatory, | from my Heart the Sharp | pointed Dagger of a Megera, ! which Hell ic felf had vo- | mited up to overwhelm me i at Venice: This Providence Jit was that ftaid a {mall Veffel at Marfeilles for feven , Months together,till the day ) that I arriv’d to embark my felf for Smyrna, & to be there before your Lordthip was ito depart, in purfuance of | 4 other Voyages quite contra- ry to the Advantage of your jAffairs, and which I could jnever difcover. At length jbeing happily return’d home qunder the Conduét of your Auccefsful Patronage, after A 2 IEarly English Books O acne inline, Co is I » Copyright © 2 Images reproduced by courtesy of British ons Pro Quest LLC The Epiftle . Thad travell’d Six thoufand nine hundred Miles by Sea or by Land in four Months time, I Hacter’d my Self, tha i in Dedicating to your Lord- ! Ship this little Psece, which | departs from my Study upon a. Voyage to the Republick of the Curious, it might find the fame Good Fortune} as the Author of it. Tho indeed a ftronger Reafonfi oblig’d me to procure it this! Honour ; that isto fay, the; Grandeur of a Name whic has prefervd it felf untar nifhd.in the Nobility o yous Family for many Ages, even till this very ‘ay i , your Dedicatdry. your own Tllufrious Perfon. For you are defcended from that Great Hero, who affitted Wilham the Conqueror to lay the Foundations of a Mo- narchy, which the Sword of yout Anceftors has ever fince upheld with the hazard of their Lives. Witnefs that Thunderbolt of War, the Deceafed Earl your Father, who for having taken up Arms in the defence of the King his Mafter, had loft his Head, had not the Ven- geance of Heaven crufht the “Tyrant who had condemn'd him by the means of afmall number of Judges and Ju- A 3 tyEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The Epifile ry Men, that then acknow- ledg’d no other Law than | Abfolute Power. And your | Lordfhip, the true Offfpring | | ateradts the AffeCtion and | Efteem of all that have the of fomany Hero's, tracing their Glorious Examples, declar'd your {elf againft your beft Friend, fo foonas he appear'd tobe anEnemy | to the King his Father, whofe | Arms your Prowefs caus'd to be redoubted, both in | Flanders and wherever elfe § the Honour of his Com- § mands carry'd you. Icould 4 fay much more, but that | your Modelty obliges me to H dilence. Buttowhat purpofe # fhould I be multiplying i words, _ Dedicatory. . words, when your own Acti- ons themfelves fufficiently Proclaim the reft, as well as your Perfon, which alone advantage to know thofe ex- cellent Qualities with which God has endow'd your Lord. fhip ; and of which J wifh your Lordfhip a happy and long Enjoyment. Accept therefore] befeech yourLord- {hip this {mall Prefent as a Teitimony of my Refpect in the Quality of Your Lordfhips, Moff buimble and moft Obedient Servant. De L Epy.Se THE PREFACE. Had written in my time fe- veral Volumes upon feve- ral Subjects, which after. © wards Ithrew into the. Fire 5. as: well for that they diflik'd me (for Lam a very. fevere Cenfu- ver of my own works,) as for that I did not think them proper for the Genius of the Age, more. inclin d. to trifles than to ferious. things.* Neverthele/s I was mer ciful to the Memory.of my Ade ventures, not fo much for any. A 5 E iftcem: . Early Engt Books Onli eC ntine, Copyright © 2 Images reproduced by courtesy of British pio ProQuest LLeEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The Preface. Ejteem which I had of them, but that I might leave ‘my Chil- dren fettld in a Foreign Coun- : try the Confolation of knowing . whence they came, and by what < Accident they happend tobe born. Afterwards under tanding by the Converfation which I had had with the Book/ellers, that Books of Travels were agreeable to the Palates of moft Readers, the Inclination which I have had allmy life to be ferviceable to Mankind, made me refolve to publifh this fmall Part of mine, at leaft to give.fome few hours Divertifement to the Publick by reading them; with this Pro- inife, that if this fmall Effay The | Pre face. q find acceptance,they fall have the whole Fournal entire. The Im- proffion was begun in French the laft year 5 at what time finding my elf oblig'd to return into the Levant, upon the occafion which have hinted in the preceding Epiftle, I defir'd the Printer to frop his Prefs till my return, be. caufe I defw'd to overfee it. In the mean time be had caus d-my Copy to be Tranflated into Eng. ith, which I view'd and found faithfully done. After which ha- ving roftor’d him his Tranflation to do what be pleas'd with it, be defir'd me to anfwer fome Ob- jettions which had been made in bfence. my abfence. hEarly English Books | The Preface, In the firft Place they will | hardly believe the Shipwrack | which I fuffered in my Third | year, noy the manner how Te. , Scaped, Neverthelefs there is no- thing more certain than what I s have faid of it: befides other Grcumflances, which I baye o- emitted which would feem yet more incredible. All the City of : Lyons, which is the Place of my Nativity, was at that time fully poffefsd of it; 1 was there lookt upon as another Mo- fes. Neither am I fo old, but that there are ftill Perfons alive that can teftifie the fame, 2. They will have Heliopo- lis to have been'in Agypt ; I 7 Copyright © 19 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The. Preface. confefs it ; but that is not the Heliopolis I /peak of. But as there ave at this time feveral Gities of the fame name ; as Frankfort upon the Maine, Frankfort upon the Oder ; Ly- ons upon the Saone, and Ly- on le Saulnier; or Lyons where the Saltpits are, befides. Leiden which the Latins. call Lugdunum alfo: Chalon up- 1 on the Saone, and Chalons upon the Marne ;. Valence in the Dauphinate, and Valence in Spain: Why mujt it be deny'd, but that befides Helio. polis m Agypt, there may be. that other of which I have given. the Relation in Vartary. They, who.Early English Bool Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The Preface. who never faw more than their own Village, never imagin that Steeples are of any other fafhion than their own, Lactantius and St. Auftin langht at thofe who by the di€tates of found fence af- firm’d there were Antipodes. 4nd a German Bifhop was ac- cusd for a Hleretich before Pope Zachary upon the fame feore. And if Columbus had not difcover’d the way where o- thers follow'd him, we fhould have had enow pitiful Scholars that would have maintain dthere was never any fuch thing. Be- ing once in a Coach with an Im- pertinent Lady, underftanding that I was a French Mam, fhe would ght © 2019 ProQuest LLC The Preface. H would not believe that they {poke inFrance any other Language than hers, which fhe thought to be the Language of the whole World. Good God ! how ma- ny People are there, who be- lieving themfelves to be very witty, are altogether lke this Woman? If not in this very par- ticular, yet in feveral other things. We have taken for Fa- bles what the Poets or the An- cients have told us of the fuft Inhabitants of the World. That they liv’d after the manner of Beafts, without Commonwealihs, without Laws, naked, and feed- ing upon Acorns, and what the | Earth produc'd, without any o- therEarly Englis ig ooks Online, Copyright © Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The Preface, Nature. Yet they who retirn - from America, tell. us that they meet with fuch People there at this day, and that that part of the World is fill in its In. fancy. Nay though our own Fkemifphear be fo Pol:te, yet there are fome Cantons di/co- ver'd, where the-Mex-bave only the outward fhape of Men: Wit- nefs the Savage, which, as Monfieur Sloskoski a Canon of s Cracovia, told me at Padua, he faw m his own Country, and which had been brought from the Mountains that Separate Po. land from Hungary. He was allover Flaix, {poke not at all, ie cmon 2019 ProQuest LLC The Preface ther preparation than that of ff but made a fign for his Vitter | ali, by barking like a Dog ; be i hid bimfelf up ina Corner, a- 4 foan’d to be fen of Men; be ' yefusd all manner of Cloaths + which they brought him,’ and the Bread and Meat which. they offered him bakd and boil'd ; on- ly fed upon raw Flefh and Pros vender like a Beat : For the ruggedne/s of thofe uninhabited Mountains hindrng People of our Conditions to have any Con- verfe or Commerce in thofe Parts, preferves thofe Savages in their purely natural Eftate ; in like manner as the vaft extent of the Ocean had kept the Indi- ans thew Primitive fomplicity. Now -Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The Preface, Now becaufe there was not any | | travel thither, is either want of | Courage or Curtofity. Now that | other People, befides thofe of | whom Hiftory [peaks , have Author, who had inform'd the Polonians that there were Sa. vages fo near them, had they any reafon to give the Lye to thofe, who having travell d thi- ther, either out of Curiofity, or by accident, fhould haye affiurd them that it was fo, unlefs they had brou ight one of thofe §. aWages along with thens? which howe. ver i was more eafie for them to do than ta bring a Heliopo- lican into Europe,For of things which we do not fee, we know nothing but by the Report. of others. Now Men have not re- ported to ws all things for want _ H of having been upon the Places ; and ca pacaernnen apres The Preface. and the Reafon why they do not tranfported themfelyes from one Country to another, there is no Queftion to be made: Witnefs thofe, who in the Times of the : fir Mraclites efcaped ont of that part of Syria, where they inhabited, into Africa, where they Eretted a Pillar, which was found feveral Ages after” with this Tn{cription, Nos Maurufii_ qui tel by Mae fugimus a facie Jo- “v4 fue Larronis, filii Nave, "Tis very well known, that we haveEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The Preface, have but a very fmall part of the Ancient Authors, and that | fonifies little to call in queftion thofe which have been prefery'd || Fans to us ave very much main'd. | Had we all of them entire, we have found out the Tranfmigra. tion of this Solary Colony, whe. ther the Incredulous might eafily £0, fince we donot here pretend ” toundertake the fantaftick Tra- vels of Begerac de Cyrano. As to what remains, fince Trelate nothing which is impoffible or miraculous, or that may. render ty Relation incredulous, it Signifies | SpA sr titov banana oad Ease ASS eS oe Bs LR Sanne "The Preface. the Matter of Fatt, while the | poffibility of the thing is acknow- | ledg'd ; and that leaving to fhould not be fuch admirers of 2 what appears to us fo fh ange or |, new by reafon of our Ignorance | only, Perbaps we wight there | every one the liberty to believe as they pleafe, they do not deprive me of that freedom which Plato had to propofe the Idea of 4 Republick after his manner, 3. ds for the Paffage where I fay that I heard People peak. ing Greek litteral behind a Wall, they exclaint d it is impofible ; but if they read with attention allthe Relation, which in two different Paffages fays well enough for fatisfymg our Admirer, and I donot like Re- ious. petitio i TeEarly English The Preface 4. They fay that I have nop Liven an exakt Relation of my return, "To which T anfwer, that being wear?d with’ Ion Travelling, I thought it fusfcient to fet down the mof} Remarkable things till I recover’d Turky. And as for what concerns Italy or France, I have not Jaid any more concerning them going thither than coming back; the’ T have made very exatt Defcrip- tions of them too,as well asof Ger- many, Switzerland Holland, Greece and other Countries, de. Sorbd fo many times by other Pens, and as well known to the Englith as England is Self. Lowever Courteous Reader, if : t oks On pyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library The Preface. it be my good hap to under ftand |) that this Effay finds a favoura- _ ble acceptance, 1 may obferve the Promife which I have made & you at the end of my Relation, : by giving you the whole of my ‘ Adventures, together with the 1 knowledge of all the Corners of the World, where I have been, | as exaddly as it is pofible to fe done, ®Early English Books ADVER TISEMEN T. Monfieur LV EP Ys | ‘TRAVELS He Author teacheth Phie | lofophy and Phyfick, both § Ancient and Moderna : Geography, § Hiftory Chronology,Latin, Greek, § French, {talian;and keeps Boarders, If any Gentleman or Gentlewoman be defirows to learn Philofophy, or whatfoever they pleaféin Latin, or in any Vulgar Tongue, he is ready to wait on them: He liveth in Beauford Building's in the Strand behind the Fountain Ta- vern, over againft the Crown, pyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library : INTO TAR TARY ™O glorious is the Beauty of the Sun,and the Sphere of his Aétivity fo large, E " that of ail thofé People E who adore the Creature to the 4 Prejudice and Difhonour of the | Creator, thofe are to be deem’d E lefs culpable, who pay their ho- | mage to this, of all the Beings or 4 Things of. Heaven which we | behold, the moft noble and beau- 3 B tifa.Early glish B a iP’ Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 2 A Voyage into tiful. In fhort, his Character. have {uch a Correfpondence wit thofe of the Deity, that wer itnot for that Revelation whic informs us to the contrary, w could not be blam’d for adorin him as the God of this fubluna ry World. The Earth, whic feems to undergo a kind o Death at his departure, feem to rife again at his returns whi the Plants fending forth the Flowers and Leaves, recloatht her with their gayeft Ornaments, The Birds renew their Amours; the very Infedéts propagates th more perfe Animals refum new vigor to engender the like: And, in a word, this com mon Mother of all things grow: young again, when. he has nifhed his Southern Retrograda tion, and comesback to us. Or, - 4 yright © 2019 ProQuest LLC : i i i t TARTARY. if ic be he that ftands ftill, when fhe, according to the Or- der of her Revolution, oppofes gainft him one or other of his i For then it is that fhe keeps open-houfe forall her nhabitants, by the Production of her Fruits, by the Favour of his lovely Afpedt, from which othing is conceal’d. For the aft extent of his Beams renders ‘| him prefent over all the Univerfe, ., of which he penetrates the deep 4 Abyfles, there to produce Gold, Diamonds and Pearls. He is he inexhauftible Fountain of hat heat which enlivens us, and cur real Fellow-parent in. the Generation of our Children, if we may givecredit to Aréfatle, He is lovely. for his Beauty, to : be adored ‘for his Power, un- } fpeakable for his Effects, formi- : Be dablely Eng. Pyrigi Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 4 A Voyage into dable for his Chaftifements which he hall quickly feel, tha ftares upon his luftre, with dif- refpedtful Eyes, as being dazd |; with the. fight; and if he con tinue: -obftinate in his curiofity he’ fails not to find himfelfover- |: whelmed with the fpendor of his Glory. Now if all thefe | Attributes will not ferve to ex- | cufe People that want the light | of the Sun of Juftice, and that | to be ovly a more fpecifick Cha- racter of the Divinity, we may f addin their favour, That hes | only fingle 3 for which reafon is was that the Greeks calld. him jy ‘antvev, by a name excluding | Multitude. The Affrians nam’d him Adad, fignifying Ove, and eft of the Gods, together with the Perfiazs, who called him by | TARTARY. © another name, which fignifies in } Labar pay him homage, as alfo 4 t anor q int © 2019 ProQuest LLC their Language, He ix whom re- fides the Soveraignty of Conmeand, If Plicy bis admirer did not adore him, he deem’d him wor- thy the Adoration of the Peo- ple, which the Inhabitants of the Fortunate Hlands never re- fued him. The Mujfagetes ac- knowledge no other Deity but him. Alfo at this day we find in China a Temple dedicated to the Atoms of the Sun, whofe Palace is thought to be the Pa- radife of that People. All the Heathen upon the Cosft of Ma- fome part of the Feppows, and the Great Tartars, as we are _ told by feveral Geographers. acknowledged him for the chief- FE For my own part, in truth, I never obferv’d any fuch fort of Worthip in all that vaft extent B3 ofEar! Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library eB A Voyage into of Territory, which I have tra- |, vell’d5 only T met with one {mali comer inhabited by Phi- lofophers originally defcended from the Greeks, who mov'd by thefe, or fome other more. im- portant RefleCtions, were con- vine’d not of bis Divinity, but of his Superiority, and confe- crated Holy-days 5 and ordain‘d Ceremonies, whereia they ac- knowledge the Benefits which they receive by his Influences. Their Form of Government 1s Ariftocratical, under Laws that feem to have been borrowed from Plitc’s Commonwealth,*or & elfe from the primitive Chriftt- ans, as injoying all things in | common, tho’ it be not really fo, as you fhall fee in reading thefe Travels, which I was in- duced to undertake upon the following occafion. In ht © 2019 ProQuest LLC TARTARY. 7 In the third year of my Age, ‘and the year of our Lord 1636. Fit was feot by my Parents from a Country-houfe upon the Saoxe 4 twoLeagues above Lyons, with my Governefs in a Boat, which + through the carelefsnels of the | Mater, was overfet by another ‘larger Veflel that was tow'd a- long the fame River. Tremem- ber [ heard the confufed noi of Shrieks and crying-out, We are loft, we dre loffy 1 ask’d what | was the matter? they made an- wer, That they believed me to fi be the Caule of their difafter, le while the Boat-men ftood ga- Hi zing to fee me play inthe Wa- er. . At length I loft my fenfes, = [know not how. But nofooner recovering my (elf, I faw a Lady + floating upon the Water, that {with a lamentable voice called j B4 ~ me.A Voyage into me by names whereupon Ical-/': led to her and others whom I). {aw perifhing before my Eyes, to do as I did: For I fanfied): my {elf holding faft by the Piles; of a wooden-Bridge, believing’ certainly that 1 could not be” drowned fo long as I kept my: hold. Methought alfo that fome body went about to hinder me} ' from faving my felf, by thrufting) - away my Head with a Pole,) which made me call him Cruel Being thus loft a fecond time, remain’d fencelefs, till 1 found my felf in a Bed, where fora People had laid me, who per ceiving me from the (hoar about!’ half a League lower, and be... lieving me to be a Bundle off Goods, came and fetch’d me out?’ of the middle of the River, wherethey found me carried by 4 the 4 ke: Early English Books Online, Copyright © 201: Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library TARTARY. 9 ') the Stream upon a Bavin ‘of Vine-Twigs. About two hours after the Boat was funk, where- in were fourteen Perfons all un- fortunately drown’d. From that time forward, being at the dif- pofal of thofe to whom I was beholding for my life, I rowld ‘ from School to School, learn- ing Greek, Latin, and Poetry, with whatever befides the Cir. cle of the Sciences contains, _ till I was fourteen years of age; at what time being fallen into thehands of a fort of Perfons, who have the fubtilty to infinn- ate themfelves into the fimple Minds of Youth, and to.make what impreffionthey pleafe there- in, I fuffer’d my felf tobe led by their perfwafions to follow their Maxims. [remain‘d in their So- ciety travelling from City to B 5 City,Early Englis ooks Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC 42 A Voyage into City, from Country to Country, till Twas four and twentyyears of Age; at what time finding my felf at Rome in full leifure to examine the Sciences, which Tthoughe I had acquir’d, I found by my felf, that I knew nothing becaufe I had been ill taught: Therefore I tranflated my {lf from the Lyceuw to the Portico, to the end I might give my feif wholly up to the Study of Mo- rality, till the Reflections which I made upon the feveral Objects that prefented theméelves to my Senfes, furniflYd me with ether Principles, that made me apply my felfrothe fudy of Philoio. phy and Phyfick, with a greater fathfadtion than before, During this leifure of mine, E open’d my Eyesto obferye rhe Cheats that had been put upon | Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library - tal of . the . Twentieth of TARTARY: me, and bethought my (lf that it was my duty to abandon |. thofe People, whofe ill lead Lives gave the Lye fo manifeft- ly to their Tenents. There ha- ving communicated my Defign | to Monthrefo, the honeftelt and ~ the moft Learned among the i: whole Tribe, he not only ap- | provid it, but defir'd he might _ have the honour to accompany 7 me in fo laudable an Enter. Prize. With thefe Refolutions we departed from the Capi- the Roman Empite January 1663. by St. Fohw Lateran's - Gate, and arrive at Naples by . the 25th, where after we had feen the Curiofities of Przzuolo, "and Pefaoins, tir'd with our Tra vels through the Principal Parts. of Enrope, we refolv'd to fee theEarly English Books Online, Copyright © Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 12 A Foyage into the Varieties of other Coun- tries and Territories of the World. Thereupon refolving to go aboard the firlt Veflel that fet fail for the Levant, we went to the Sea-fide, where we met with Signor Hippolito, Cap-_ tain of the good Ship call’d the Hope who underftanding our defign, made us an obliging Proffer of his Service, which we readily accepting, embark’d the fourth of February, with a Wind fo favourable, that ina fhort time we loft fight of the Land, which by Sicknefs laying in my Cabin | faw no more till we arrivd at Porto Lione, where we again had a view of itthe Fifteenth, Overjoy’d that _ 1 was fo near a Place which was | formerly the Manfion of all Hu- man Wifdom, I foon forgorthe 3 tircfome |, 19 ProQuest LLC TARTARY. 13 tirefome hardfhips of the Sea. So foon as I caft my Eyes upon the ancient Pyreum, fo ill treat- ed by Time, that it does not preferve fo much as its Name, chang’d into that which it car- ries at prefent,. by reafon of the ilfhap'd figure of a Lyon. In the fame Place we hir'd Poft- Horfes to vifit Athens, diftanc from the Port about five Miles. So foon as I arriv’d there, I be- gan to look for the rugged Ruins of that Famous Piece of Antiquity, Wherein I found great Afliftance from the know- ledge of the Learned Demetri- ws, to whom I was recommend- ed by his Friends at Venice, Nei- ther was my own Skill in the Greck unprofitable to me. For though the Vulgar Greek differs very litle from that in the Schools,Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 14 A Voyage into Schools, the Corruption of this is not fo great, bue that it may be undetftood, when it is {po- ken according to the Pronuncia- tion of the Country. Befides . that it is as common among Perfons of Quality, as Latin among the Poloxians. Moreo- ver, they told me, that there is - no other Greek to fpeak pro- perly than that. In regard that. what is calld Vulgar Greek is a kind of Pedlars French, which. differs according to the {everal Jurifdictions of the Country : that it was the famein thetime of Demofthenes 5 that then, be- fides the four Diale&ts moft known, there were fome other in ule among the Vulgar Peo- ples but that che Orators in their publick Pleadings made ufe of the common Speech, which. TARTARY. 45 | which was underftood by the ordinary fort, although they did | not fpeak it; which they con- | firm’d to me by the Letters of private Perfons written at that time, and which were after- wards found in the Ruins of | old Wall Their Books alfo were written in that fort of | Greek, which we call for that . Reafon Literal, and which isthe | very fame that the Preachers at | this day make ufe of in their , Sermons. Ina word that Per- | fon isdeenyd to write and fpeak beft- among them, who comes neareft the Language of the . Ancient Authors; which is at ' this day the only Standard of | the Language, asthe Parzgoz in | dtaly, and the Parifian in France | in refpect of the other Provin- ces, where though it be not {pokenEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 16 A Voyage into fpoken, yet it is underftood by the meaner fort. ‘The Citadel or Acropolis feated upon a Rock commands the City, and is feen at Sea. Being not permitted to goinI could fee no more than | the outward fide of it; but my Friend told me that there was a noble Piece of Antiquity, vz. the Temple of Diaze, How- ever all that wecould meet with of the Ancient Ornaments of | that City, built many Ages be. fore Rowe was, only certain, {mall Towers erected in honour of thofe who had been Vittors in the Olpwpick Games, and fome Porticos of ruind Tem- ples; among which there is one which refembles that of Virile Fortune, which is now the E- Syptian St. Mary's at Rome, up. on the Lanks of Ziber, in the Flefh- TARTARY 17 Fleth-market. They fhew'd me alfo a certain piece of carv'd Work, reprefenting Déaza. in her hunting-Habit, attended in a Wood by her Nymphs. It wasa wonderful Piece of Work- manfhip, and the Intcription gave us to underftand, that it was wrought by the hand of Phidjas, having been digg’d; but a little before we came thi- ther, out of the Ruins of the Areopagys 5 which does not now ftand within the compafs of the City, that is now reduc’d with. ina leffer compas. They alfo fhew’d me the place of the Tem- - ple or Altar Erected to the un- known God, Several Statues are dige’d up out of the Earth every day, of which not one that I have feen comes near to thofe of Italy. Thereupon be.Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 18 A Voyage into ing amaz’d to fee few Signs of its ancient Splendor, they made me anfwer, that I might fee them in other Places, whi- ther the War had tranfplanted them, or elfe Barter in Traffick, Indeed there was one Piece which I faw the laft time I was at Venice, in the Houfe of Sig- nov Michele Peruli, an Athenian Merchant, which had been fent him as a Prefent, reprefenting in BaG Relief; a young man fiark naked, holdinga Wee * Jack-daw in his frie wd Righthand, Thebot- Signifies the Om of the Sculpture fame, was adorad with a Palm-tree, upon the Trunk of which a certain kind. of Beetle was engvav'd in acreeping Po- fture. The Cornith comes forth as far asthe Statue, and is railed y TARTARY. 19 by two borders, between which Hat the Top thefe words are to ibe read in Greck Letters, Li Zderuss Anwosnvats “Evovuyess, which | fome will therefore have to be | the Son of the Great Demofthe= | ves. The Piece is good from ithe Belly downward; but the | Head is not very “Sxtraordinary, and the left hand is broke off, Every Body knows that the Sta- jtue of Vexws which formerly i ftood upon Mount Pincins at ; Rowe, and is now to be feen in the Galleries of Florence, Ki leave being given to the (,Grand Duke by the prefent iPope to remove it thither, was the Work of an Athe- \:nian, whole name is en- agrav’d at the bottom of 2 the . Statue , Kacouesiis "Arona {ties “ASIC tnoioe Kleomte-Early English Books Onfine, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 20 A Voyage into nes the Son of Apollodorus an Athenian made this, A favour which the Dukes Predeceffors could ne’er obtain, though from Popes of the fame Family. So Cautious they were of with any of the Oicaments of their City; whereas the prefent Pope fuffers cifem to be daily ta- €n away, notwithftanding all the grumbling of the Rozens, So that all that remains at this } cr : ne . day of the Athenian Antiquity i Magiftrates, for the Grand Sigs , wior is contented only with fend- wht d h i ing thither one of his Favourite compals it round, and are the f Eunuchs, who receives the Duty is their Olive Trees and their Wit. Thee Olive Trees en- chief Revenue of the Athenians, Their other Fruits are very Ex- cellent, and ig may be the beft inthe World. But as for the Inhabitants they are no lefi na- turally Witty “and. Ingenious than ever; ‘fo that if they , were parting . TARTARY. an were but well manur'd by Edu- , cation, they would prove as Good Poets, Orators, Philofo. | phers, Statuaries or other Ar. ° tifts whatever, as ever were known at the time when ir fou. rifh'd in its higheft Splendour. | The Turks have the fame re- F {pect for them as the Romans hads who fuffer them to live | according to their own. Laws, and to be govern’d by their own impos’d, without farther con- | cerning himfelf with their Af fairs 5 befides that his Garrifon is_very sinconfiderable. The Bifhop is. Judge of the Diffe- ‘Fences between the Diocefans,. : who generally fubmit co his De- terminationEarly English Books Online, Copy! Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 22 A Voyage into termination for fear. of Ecclefi- aftical Cenfures. They trade _ into Italy with their Commodi- } ties, for which they receive in exchange Cloth, and all manner of [ron Tools, THeir Women are handfome, and richly clad | F from the Sun § their Beds are TARTARY. 293 » Quilts laid down on the Sopfa, _ but fome of them are furnith’d ; after our own fafhion. They believe the prefence of / Jefts Chrittin the Sacrament 5 in their Garments embroider'd |. with Gold down to their very |} have, for fear of a greater mif- chief, The Citizens of Quality wear a long black robe with fhort Sleeves; ‘but their Priefts | are habited much like the Mini- 55 » affirm to be _ but by virtue of ‘the Prayer {ters of the “Exgli/ Church, on- ly the Sleeve isnot gathered in- to Pleats: In the City they al- ways wear upon their Heads a a flat Hat; which they call an Uchiedow, becaufe it covers them |: from though the moft Learned among them have acknowl-dg'd to ie, that the Fathers never under. Shooes, which their Husbands, | ftood what Tranfibantiatjon though poor, willingly let chem | meant. They fay moreoyer that - Chrift is not there’ prefent in ) that manner whidlr the Latins | hold, when the Prieft pronoun. | ces thefe Words, tem ui ¢a otic, : This is my Body which they purely Hiftorical, i when he fays, Tloinooy fe ad deny 5 1 i © 2019 ProQuest LLC _ » Tirey aw apa ce Xest of Mz round Cap; but inthe Country Chip cad ie mer iA jeg ver kneeld before the Sacra. ment,24 A Voyage inte their Shoulders co the Bread, as well before as after Confecrati- [ The Liturgy being ended, on. the Prieft invites the People to the Communion, if no body. | come, he eats the remainder } upon a Table which ftands at the fide of the North Door.. As for the Sick, they cormmu- nicate of the Bread and Wine Confecrated by the Bifhop upon Maundy Thurfday for the whole year. To which purpofe they keep the Bread fteep’d in the Wine, by the fide of the Altar in a Cup-board without Light. T ask’d them, whither the Sa- f} crament fo preferv’d, did not § putrifie 5 but they affur'd me, it did not. The Bilhops Miter is not | cloven, but round, and all befet wit Early English Books Ontine, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library ment, but only bow’d with | TARTARY. 295 } with precious Stones, All | Bithops believe themfelves to ne equal as to the Funétion, but | Hot as to the Sea, the Dignity of ' which exalts the one above the _ other, by virtue of an Infitution | purely Humane, and not Di- | vine, ; _ They never fay till they are » fick to receive the Sacrament of | Extream Unétion; but they re- ‘ ceive it all every ycar.in the ho- ily Week, after ‘this manner: Two Arcobithops ‘bleG the | Oils afterwards the Archbifhop fof the Church being feated in p his Chair, and five or fix Priefts | in theirs, the People prefent themfelves to be anointed; fir(t bby the Prelate, who holding a Wax Candle in his hand, | dips the Cottenin the. holy Oil, ’ Cc : and then anoints the Forhead, theEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 26 A Voyage into Perfon goes to the other Priefts | who do the fame. They pray} for the dead, whofe Souls the believe remain in this World} in expectation of the Genera day of Judgment 3 not admittin any parcicular Judgment. Toey frequently perfume wit Frankincenfe in their Ceremo nies, which are very decen and fill the Soul with a fenfibl Devotion. I ask’d them th reafon why they made {uch fr quent ufe of their Perfumes fend up their Prayers with th Perfume, which afcends towar Heaven. the Face, and Palm of the ; Hand 5 after which the fame TARTAR. 27 to themfelves, and which is no more than Truths neither do the Latins difpute the Point of Elderthip. That which fur. priz’d me was this, that they fhould preferve: themfelves un. der the Tyraqny of the Moho. metans, wheioecither by their oppreffive 1 ofitions, nor fair Promifés, could ever oblige the Eaftern Chriftians to change the Goel for the Adlcoran, To which purpofe I will impart to he Reader two Remarkable Paffages, that happen’d about fix : 3 ote fince 5 th : to which they anfwer'd, That it} 7°75 3 the one at Conftanti- wasto admonith the People tof 7”? Te, that befel a young man i between fey : j fi feventeen and eighte i Years of Age, giteen 1 te duthon As to what remains Vs the Eaftern Church glories inj the aki Language above a- its Priority, which they affame{)? -ctov’d by tol} his Excellent Qualities, even of whofe Name wa Learned for his Age in every one for 2 theEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 28 A Voyage into that reafon would fain have ‘brought him over to the Maho- wetan Religion. To which § ' tle Note to read, wherein were | written, in Arabiag, thele words, L believe ix Godggagd in Maho met bis Apoftle, “S6 {oon as he g had read it, they faluted him as § one of their Brethren, faying F he was a Turk, as having made # a Profeffion of their Religion by reading that Note. He deny’ ity upon which they carried hi before a Judge who condemn’ i From thence they hal'd@ him to the Grand J7er, whof upon the Teltimony of thofep wicked People who had fo fur- prizd him,. condemn’d him alfoff to make profeflion of the Law,g as being thereto oblig’d by his reading 4 the Turks themfelves, who for g reading, TARTARY. - 29 Upon his refufal they carried him to Prifon, where for thirty days he endured moft horrible torments; of which purpofe they fhew'd him a lit. @ O"¢ among the reft was the thrufting of fharp Reeds be- tween the Flefh and the Nails of his Fingers: After which he had his Head cut off, whichthe Embaflador of France bought of the Executioner as a precious Relique. - The other, named ‘Diauwanti, aged about thirty years, and of a charming Beauty, -was rowing naked in a Boat wpon a River of Affa, with: certain Turks, who movd with com- § paflion that fo lovely a Man fhould perith for want of em- | bracing their Religion, ‘put a white Turbant upon his Head. Which done, he. was ufed with, theEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 30 A Voyage into the fame feverity as Anthony was, : iless whi , after he had refufed the chiefett § fen less which we refolved to Preferments in the Empire, Bur a ‘facobin Monk, who was there [| by day Decal ad with great at the fame time, renouncing his delight cro@’d over feveral de. Slates . . . q licious Gardens and Fields plant- their ‘hat. thev’t by his Apofta- |) ed with Olive-trees, promifing CY> Waat they had loft by the |. our (elves a molt plealant Jour- | ney, perceiving the Sun to rife. Chriftianity, was the occafion of generous Conftancy of Diamaz. ti, I could give a more ample 3 a Ti ; ’ Defetiption oF the Religion o F; upon the Lilies whitenefs. But the Greeks, but having doneit to enlarge this Volume. what was without. TARTARY. 31 walk according to the cuftom We fer out | contrary to the Maxim of the — in another place, I iball soe fhuly f Weather-wife we were deceived. For ablack Cloud behind us be- ‘ H ing driven forward by a Welt Neither was Demetrive con- & y , tent to thew me what was with. |! in the City, but extending his }! kindnefs, refolw’d to let me @e F To which § purpofe he invited me to take & awalk with him to the Coun- e try-houfe of one Conftantine his | particular Friend, diftant about |} wind, foon got under the Sun, and deprived us of thefightof . that noble Planet. Prefencly the Sky became fo dark that we could hardly difcern one ano- ther; which were the fore-run- ners of a moft dreadful Thun- ders. which, however, did aot tertifie me fo much as the Rain C4 thatEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 32 A Vayage into For befides that continuing all that day, it foak’d through my Shirt to my very Skin 5 the Fat L through which we were to pafs to get the neareft way, being diffolv’d, we funk inthe Mud up to our : very Knees, fo that we were f fore'd every flep we took to iB pull out our Legs with our Soil of the Fields the bad Weather and worfe Way, tired me fo much, that f Twas forced to make a ftop. Ne- verthelefs I encourag’d Monthre- § Jor to follow Devetrias 5 1 bid them alfo drink and be merry, and take no notice of my indif- pofition , telling them withal, Phat after I had refted my felf upon the defcent of a Turfy “Bank, where I was laid down | through | that followed did me mifchicf. [ TARTARY, 3 through meer faintnefs, I would 4 endeavour to overtake them the | next day, After that, falling infenfibly afleep, I knew not what became of them, till wak’d ‘with the noife, I pérceiv’d them upon two Camels followed by a Countryman who led a third, which carried me to the Friends Houfe. Confiantine treated us with Hands. This fame Combat with 4 that magnificence, that it was Ff eafie to fee he had been adver. | tifed of our coming. But having. ] loft all my Strength and Spirits, | notall the Delicacy of his Vi- |) ands could force my languifhing. : Appetite; fo that the good 7 Wine was all the Refrefhment ‘ Tcould take that Evening. How- _-ever[ took fome pleafure to fee 2 the Company fall on fo heartily. | fometimes cafting my Eyes upon Cs aEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 34 A Voyage into a Lady that fate over-againtt : me, young, handfome,and plump, yet one that eat no more than & my felf; which I wondered at the more, becaufe I could not [: fee any reafon (he had to be fo | cender-ftomach'd. Tobferv’d al- fo, that fhewould be ftill ftaring |: upon me, and could read in her i Eyes that { was not. a perfon out | However, Mo- [ defty would not permit me tol of ber Favour. my Indifpofition was Exeufé e- nough for me to take leave of | the Company, that [ might re- } pair the Loffes of my Strength | by the Refrefhment of a good §: Bed. After a fhort Nap, Tob-f} fame young man in his Shirt, ierv’d Monthrefor earnettly pee. ping through the crevice of aj) right Hand, and his Eyes {park- Door that lead out ofmy Cham. | ber into another, aad finding TARTARY, 35 by my ftirring,that I was awake, he came to me, and made me put my Head out of Bed, and | look through the fame chink in- 3 to the next Chamber, where | [faw a_young man performin 4 the Dat of : Chambermaid te » the young Lady: But neither of | us knew what the meaning of it was 3 thereupon I fell afleep again, and Moxthrefor went to fj bed# Abouc midnight I was inform my felf any farther, and! awaked again by the hard tread. ing of fome body in the Cham- ber 5 at what time, putting by the Curtain of the Bed, which - was of Cloth of Gold, I was | ftrangely furprized to fee the with a Scimiter drawn in his ling like the light that glitter’d }; out of the Lanthorn which he: ly English Books Online, Cop t 7 fan ven 1S produced by courtesy of British Library 36 A Foyage to held in his left, with my own Night-cap. Nor was I lef ter- rified to fee him in that po- fture_ making toward Moxthre- Jor’s Bed 5 which however, he prefently left to come tq, mine 5 and fo foonas he percefved my bare Head, which I thruft ove from between the Curtains to fee what was the matter; OAS | # it yon, cry’d he? The noife which he made, wakned “thy Companion, and I at the fame eens HAD anut pesto ee Ce ee _. TARTARY 37 about both his Arms, and ftopp’d -his Fury, which was as much as he could do, in regard we had both left our Swords in the place where we fupp’d. Pre. fently after the Lady coming out of her Chamber, made 4 hideous out-cry which railed all the Houfe, and brought them into the Rooms and Demetriys | without any more to do, took time leap'd out of my Bed ftark | 4 naked asI was, having lain af. ter the Italian manner, the bet- ter to eafe my felf, fnatch’d up my Cloak and wound it about my Arm to fend off the Blows which the enraged youngFellow iaid on without merey, By this Montirefor coming to my af fiance, chfpd the young man fy 4 yright © 2019 ProQuest LLC my part. At which the Ag- greflor began to vomit forth a. gainft me all the Reproaches and ill Language that his Paf- fion could ‘invent > OUt of g falfe belief, that 1 had at- tempted the Honour of his Sj. fter, thews my Cap to Conétap. tine, as being the moft proper Judge of the Trefpafs which was fuppofed to have been com. mitted in his Houfes; and adds, That38 A Voyage inte | That having heard a noife in her Chamber, he haftned thither and found what I wanted, lying at her Beds-feer. However, though the Prefumption were very rational, Demetrivs had a & better opinion of me, as well in refpect of his experience of “my Converfation, and the Re- commendations of his Friends in my behalf, and ftifly maintain’d that I was a Perfon that {corn’d fach a difhonourable Aion. On the other fide, the Lady who had thrown her felf be- tween her Brother and me, to § ftop his Fury, conjured him by her own Honour, not to be- lieve any thing that might tend to her Scandals alledging, that § the Cap might have been carried § into the Chamber by fome un- § thought-of Accident. This Con- § Stantine | nama id Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC images reproduced by courtesy of British Library TARTARY, 39 itantine confirm’d, affaring the Company, That the Rats, of which the Houfe was fall for want of Cats, thefightof which he could not endure, did often play him fuch Tricks, many times carrying away his Stock- ings and other Clothes, fome- times into one Corner, fome- times into another, and that fo my Cap might have fallen ac- cidentally from my Head, and have been carried where the young man found its therefore he defired Lafcaris to pacifie his Wrath, and me to pardon his zealous Fury in his Sifter’s behalf’ Thereupon, every one acquiefcing in his Judgment, they all return’d to their Beds, By break of day my Enemy gave me another vifit, notlike . a Mad-man, but witha fereneEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 4o A Voyage into and {miling Countenance, crav'd my Excufe for the Tranfports of his Rages and fo faying, he “brought ‘me one of his own Shooes that a Rat had likewife carried away,- all gnaw’d and Vermin-eaten as it was: And this, added he, puts me out of doubt of Conftantinds Conje- Cure. After that he made me ptivy to his Sifter’s Concerns, and his defign to carry her pri- vately out of the way, that he might releafe her from the im- portunate Addrefles of the Eunuch Governour of Athens, who was paflionately in love with her, but whofe vain and impotent Careffes were loath- _ fome to her. Dewetrins would fain have had me travelled farther up in- to the Country but in regard it 1a ig s vince of Greece s I rather chofe TARTARY, 4t had feen enough to judge of the Nature of the reft by what I had feen already, that is to fay, j That it was enriched with ex- f cellent Fruits, _ abounding in f Corn and Oil, without any de- ficiency of Bacchws’s Liquor, 1 determined to return to the City, where finding my Land- lord Epiphanes tie Legs ard y Feet by the Fetters of that Di- ftemper which proceeds from Wine and good Chear, where men indulge their Appetites to B® excefs, I relieved him. with my Antipodagricon, or Antidote a- | gainft the Gout; and under- ftanding that our Veffel’ was p ready to fee fail for Conftanti- nople, tho’ there {till remained f many things for me to have feen in this fo highly rertawned Pro- toEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 42 A Voyage into to deferr the Satisfaction of my Curioficy till oiy Return, chan to lofe the opportunity of our Veffel; fo that we embark’d the 25th. New-ftile, and the 157d, ' Old-(tile, which the Greeks re- tain as well as the Evglifh. Scarce were we got clear of the Road, but my ufual Diftem- § per feized me, which obliged me-to keep my Cabin, where T lay ill till we came to Byzan- tiem, where we arrived the 4th. f of March. Upon our landing, a Freach Stave that ftood upon the Key, offered to conduét-us to the Houfe of Siguior Lerenzo,§ to whom I had Letters to deli-J vers by the way we met with two Turks, one of which took off my Hat, and with his Footfl toffed it up into the Air, like a Foot-ball, diverting him(elf and aay TARTARY. 43 his Companion for fome time with bis rude Sport,laughing and houting all the while, Therea- fon was, as our Guide told us, becaufe thofe fort of People bear an inveterate hatred to our Habits, which they look upon to be very paltry and ridiculous, ° neverthelefs we think them to be very graceful, and account our félves the wifelt People in the World. , This Capital City of the Or- toman Empire having been (e- veral. times defcribed by other | Travellers who have been very exact in their relations, I {hall fay nothing of it, only that af- ter Thad fatisfied my felf with the fight of the Hippodrome, and feveral other the moft re- markable parts of it, I departed thence the 7#4, of March, ha- . vingEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 44. A Voyage into ving the opportunity of a Vef- was to fee the moft remote Pla. fel, which carried me through f ces, rarely frequented, and of we atrived the 17¢h, my defire which the Relations are hitherto to fee Tartarz, of which Coun- wy Bs iss een fo litte fai, | excel?d in the Litteral Greek. that Paflipe. However, not ha- peeing jerefore that T had a o i ving any information that might f ‘“#ttering of both the Lan- affiit me to find out the moftf foond . : d, he was defirous commodious and fafelt way top COrelponded, he : fteer my Travels, 1 made it my f to make a Third in our Socie- bufinefs to frequent the Coffee-§ Houfes, where I had the goodf luck to meet with Ariftides, af young man, well-featurd, and ; infinitely civil, the Son of arich Merchant of Famina in Epires,§ the Euxine Sea to Lovati, where famous for the Birth of Pyrrhus, and well ftored with Learning, p feat 3 This Perfon was alfo a Traveller ; paving ad Wwe ee ote fon for his pleafure, and with the : 1 gut ag fame defign thar we had, which wash neye With the Inftrudtions TARTARY. 45 very imperfe&. Heunderftood the Turkith perfectly well, but guages, and that our humours ty. Thereupon we concluded to range the remainder of Tur- ky, being inform’d that we fhould find Viflels at Santa Ma- ria, which would tranfport us into Tartary through the Cafpian Sea, and that we might take that way without any danger, the whole expence of the Jour- we46 A Voyage into we pitch’d upon a Rough hewn Blade, who undertook to delity, befides that he lookt like an honeft ftout fellow, a Mer- chant of Ariftides’s Acquaintance § if 4 jconfequently worfe manur’d, engag'd. A Crown is a Spavifh Real, which Money, as well as | Hereticks by the Greeks, though ithey obferve their Ceremonies, ‘The difference between them that of the Gervsaz Empire and Holland, goes through all Turky with Venetian Sequins, to the great advantage of Travellers 5 upon every, Sequin you get, five Shillings, upon every Real one Shilling, ~ Upon the Twentieth of March we got aHorfe-back, the Weather being very fair, and eth, at what time we got to Santa Maria, by eafie Journeys, fetting up our Tents in thof places | Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC images reproduced by courtesy of British Library TARTARY 47 | Places which feem'd to us moft Aconvenicnt 3 and yet for all condué us for Twenty five fl that we travell’d at leaft Twelve Crowns a Head, for whofe Fi- f try which comprehends Mingre- Leagues a day, All chat Coun. lia and Georgia, is fufficiently beautiful, but ill peopled and The Georgians are acompted confifts chiefly in this, that they will not acknowledge the Holy Virgin to be the Mother of Gods alleadging that God could have ns Mother :* Hows ever though they blame the Greeks for being of a contrary fo continuing till the Thiri- fOFinion, yet they do not for bear to frequent their Churches in Italy, and prefer them before the Latins. Aviftides and myEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 48 4A Voyage into monies in the Paflion Week, at what time Mowthrefor lay fick of a Dyfentry; but by virtue of an infallible Cure which If brought with me from Rome he recover’d, and wasin a Condi-§y 5), fome eafe. tion to put to Sea, the Third of April, which we did with a fair Wind that brought us to Mora§ the Seventh. However we did not land there, by reafon of the Peftilence that was-very violent in that Place : Which was to mea grievous Affliction by rea fon of the racking Pains which Iendur'd upon the Sea, .and which only going afhore could relieve. Thereupon we were conftraind to put out again in- to the open Sea, which being offended at our Return, began} to murmur, and by and by all TARTARN. 49 felf were prefent at their Cere. in a raging fury began to threa- ten the deftruction of our Vef- fel, and fwallow us up in his j Mounting Waves. Nor did the Storm ceafe till fome hours after Night was (hut in; bue then it became fo calm and {mooth that The next day being the Eighth I got upon the Deck, and deferying Land with a {mall Town about three Miles diftant from the Shore, I propos’d to pour Fricnds, that we might be row'd athore in our Skiff to awhich they agreed, and our {Captain was no lef willing, and rin refpect to Ariftidesorder’d the gScamen to carry our Lugpage tothe Town, which afterwards we found to be Sabatan. There jve were curteoully receiv'd by athe Inhabitants, who carefs'd us after an extraordinary’ manner, Db andEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 50 A Voyage into and without any hopes of Pro. fit, in regard there are no [nush other Countries of Europ the Perfon that entertains you being fatisfi'd with having per- formd a laudable A& of Hoffi- tality, Happy was he that could have us5 and therefore to pleate more then one we divided ourf felves.. However though w. lodg’d_ in feveral Houles, wel kept together all day lon mmended t . . They alfo recommended to ourk n with Caranan our Tartar be. Service a Tartarian, who havin: liv'd among the Franks at Con frantinople, had learnt the Ttali ae Language; and therefor finding him inclin’d to ferve u we accepted of him. And thu having recover’d our forme health by reft and good feed TARTARY 4 ign, than te cravelat a ‘venture in that place, as in France andg™ 4 Country that “Tet ‘us come fwhere we would, we had what eaim'd at. About a Mile from ‘Sabatan e' travell'd over 4 rifing round’; from- whente “we ight take a view of the ountry ; and after we “had t ‘fome time lookt as far: as e could fee, we’ chofe' the outly Eaft, as feeming: ithe oft pleafant, and fo march’d te us; cartying a Basker of Provifions; wich a Partifan in s hand, and his Bow and At: ws athis Back, We carry’d ery one a Carbine in our jandg, as well for dport as. de. Hee, two Piftols in our Pock- : . ts, atid: a: Sclini 7 ing, we fet forwards again the Bridde 5° and a3 Scimitar by our Eleventh, without any other de- Bags of Linnen for change, wa Ags ; for-our Coats and 2 threw a52 A Voyage into threw them upon a Horfe which "we had provided to ferve us in time of neceffity. Moreover Ariftides had one more atten- F dant than any of the ret; a flout Maftiff, which he had | bred up of a Whelp, fierce to all others but his taftical Cap of Steel to defend of Wild Beafts, Horn of a Rinoceros, with a pierce a Bufolo’s Skin. This Dogs Name was Pamphagos, § ‘Al-devour : in plain Evxelifh And thus accouter’d and_pro- vided we travell'd all that dz till night without meeting any aS Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC images reproduced by courtesy of British Library | again betimes in the : and we found by Caramans | pace, that we had made a thift Maiters § to find the way to our Mouths Friends; and which his Matter — in the Dark. Bue when we had arm/‘d with a ftrange fan. § 7 2 TARTARY. 53 Living thing ; nor was the night’ | le tedious to us for want of a good lodging, The Twelfth, fetting forward - orning, had made a farther Breach in a B his Basket at Noon, he began him from the Claws and Fangs § which cove- ring his head like the hollow F keep behind. Toward Even- halt of a Pruen Stone, ended a ff ing we difcoverd a Cottage little below his Nofe, like the § to out-ftrip us fo faft thar we were fore’d to order him to made of Stone without Morter E. cover’d with Grafs. Thereup- Point fo fharp to be able to § on we defir’d Ad-devour to o- pen his Mouth and {peak to the Cottage, believing that upon’ his furly fummons they. that were within would make their Y § appearances but no anfwer be- , ANY B ing returnd, we conjedturd i Living | D 3 toEarly English Books Ontine, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 54 4 Voyage into tobe as we found. it, empty ; | and thereupon thought fit to take pofleflion, not. ‘knowing where to find-a bettcr Lodging. | The raft of the Evening’ we fpent in cutting Fern for our Bedding, The Wolves however being come, Moexthrefor ttrook alight with his flee! and fline, to the end we might fip with more pleature by ihe light of a {mall Wax Candles Carauan was cxtreamly pleas'd to fe us feed like Hunters, in hopes. that he {hould have nothing to car- § ty next. day 5 and truly there was but a very {mall Mddicum § left, which we -refery’d wigh an equal proportion’ of Wine for breakfait: Thus after we, had f fapp’d we took our repofe ve- ry ‘{weetly under the. Guard of All.devonr, who: opt Sendnel at the Door of the Cattage, - Pre The LARTARY. The: Thirteenth | -A2-devony ftattéd: a Hate, which itiwag Monthrefor's, good fortune ‘to - kill, Prefently we got a ‘good heap of Brufh Wood together to roaft our Venifon. And abe ter we had din’d we agréed tow gether, that if any Misfortune fhould threaten us, the lat Ii. ving fhould inherie all the Goods, . All this while the apprehen- fion of wanting Viéwals “had put us quite out of conceit with thefe Deferts, at what time we difcover’d about four Miles off a rifing Hillock, of which ‘the White and Green put it infoour heads that we fhould make a difcovery what it really was, Thereupon .we made up to it, } and the nearer we’ approactrd the Objects rendring themfeWés more diftin@, at length we per- D4 _—_ ceiv'dEarly English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 56 A Voyage into ceiv’d them to be a knot of Shepherds Lodgings, who un. derftanding by Caraman .the } Caufe of our coming, feafted § usin their Tents to the beft of § their Power: For their ufual Dyer is Milk, Cheefe, Burter £ -maturally produces without la- bour. Some there are that eat § Fleth 5 but they are lookt upon ff as Savages and Brutes. They have alfo a fort of Wheat which grows like their Pulfe without the affiftance of Husbandry ; | but they make no Bread of § it, no more than they make § Wine of thetr Grapes, In a i word, they live upon all the § ther preparation than that of nature. Neverthelefs, as having . . ; the forecaft of Bees and Emets, | them in their Cares and Pains, they i a and Pulfe, fuch as the Earth | Note are ea flat: Th : They f are ftrong B carelefs —PARTARY. gy they make their ProviGon in | its proper Seafons againft Win- ter. As to their Stature, they are generally about four foor anda | half high, but never exceed five, F Their Faces are fauane generally (quare, only that their and couragious their Cloathing for the emote fort is only a Sheeps Skins but the more neat and ; curious make ule of the Skins of | Hares, Martins, Foxes or Ty- gers, which they kill in Hunt. Ring. Nor is the Habit of the F Women: much different from that of the Mens for they fay Productions of the Earth, which that the Beard is a fufficient ce it affords them without any o- f ftinétion between the ewo Sexes, They are faithful to their Hus. bands, equally fharing with D5 ac-Early English Books Online, Copyright © E Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 58 A Foyage. into .acconding to the prattile of Hol. f fand.:. When they -have:.a mind § toeat, their Provifion is brought in:an old Hart, or Elan’s Skin; f G which being: {pread upon ‘the § Ground ferves inftead:of a Ta- § ble, Napkin and Plater «much like the Grecks and ‘Turks ; they fit down upon Cufhions made of Sheep. Skins with the f Wooll on; every one takes § what beft pleates his Palate. B ther fore Phyfick j For they have Fruits of all forts, F Fe ee uck isnot known fre(h in their Scafon, and pre: § fervd in Winters; Apples, Pears, Cherries, Figs, Grapes, | Wheat, Milk, and Roots, which they preferve in Honey inftead of Salt, . of which they make no ufe at all; they begin their Meals with a large draught 3 2019 ProQuest LLC with the next ‘fair. Water they meet. They lye in their Cloaths upon Skins fpread upon the round, and cover themfelves with Skins of the fame - fores E Which I find’ to be more cots } venient than the Beds of Gér« Swany and Switzerland, whete ; Feathers fervefor Bed and Co. verlet, They are never fick, and them, They. only dye among of old Age, upon the utter ex. Ftin@ion of their Natural heat, F which happens fooner or later, } according to the Compofition p which they firft receiv'd in-their j Mothers Womb, a cccrepid old Man, whether he | were n ral > of Milk, and fo conctade them ot atraid of Death? Wha After that, if they. chance to. be fl of g Queftion never propos'’d as adrye, they quench their Thich {mong them, made anfwer, That _ I once aske eing farpriz’d at the Novelty there >ra 60 ‘A Voyage into there was nothing to be fear’d where there was nothing of E- vil, That he conceiv’d Death to be nothing elfe but a Ceflati- § on from the Motions of Action and Thought ; That all evil confifted in the Thought, and f therefore there could be no fuf- fering where there is a Ceffation of Thought. in a Perfon fo Illiterate ; for they are fo far from addi€ting themfelves to ftudy, that they have not any knowledge of Books. In the next place | causd him to beaskd of what| Religion he was? To which hej made this Return, That he was a Shepherd by Profeffions nor could [draw any other anfwer from him. choice, fo long as their Flocks find] Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library T could not but] admire at fuch Philofophy as this f They abide in the} Places of which they make} TART ARY. 61 find any thing to feed upon, Afterwards they remove into o- ther Parts, under the Condugé of one who is their Chief. They were fo Civil, that perceiving we wanted a Tent, they pre- fented us with one of theirown 5 together with a Care and four Cows to draw it, which be. fides the fervice that they did us, might alfo feed us with their Milk. Their Tents are made of white Skins, dreft with the Hair ons which colour they make choice of above all others, tothe end their Tents may be difcern’'d at a diftance, which prevents others that have occa- fion to change their ftations, to remove to a place already pof fefsd. The Fifteenth.we took leave of our Holts, laden with Pro. vifions for Eight days, which . they —62, A Voyage into they put into our Cart 5 for which we prefented them with feveral Italian Trifles, very ac. ceptable to them by reafon of their Novelty. From thence we went on - flowly, and by fhort Journeys, taking up our Lodging an hour before Night, which: we fpent "either in eating or fleeping, one of our Company always keep. ing watch in his Turns not for fear of Robbers, or Barbarous fpoilers of Paflengers ; for there are no fuch Ufages among them, but for fear of the wild Beafts, which otherwife might have af- faulted our Perfons, or de- vourd our Cows, for whofe Pafturage our Sentinel had in charge to provide, with the af- fiftance of All-devour, Weal- fo made a {top in the day time, as well to reft our felves, as to refreth tog . Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library TARTARY. 63 refreth our felves with. a:thore ‘Meal, which was generally ‘by the fide of a Fountain, which wanting of, we drank at the charge of our Cows, ~The Twentieth we under- flood by the heat of the Sua; that we. were far: diftant from the Norths which heat was {o violent, that the RefleQion of | it froma Rock upon our right hand, put ‘Ari/ides into avviolent Fit of the Headach, who having at length met with a convenient Shade, under the favour of the Elbow of a Hillock, made bold to fitdown upon certain Stones, which long time had loofen’d and rowl’d down from the Rock § befides that our hour be. ing come, the convenieney. -of the Place invited ns tortake our Repatt, provided? we ! coilld meet with any Water. ‘There: woe 8 upon64 A Voyage into upon Mozthrefor and my flf, leaving our fick Friend to his Repofe under the Guard of Car. vaman, went to look out for fome Water, judging by the na- tureof the Place, that wecould . not be far off from a Spring: Nor were we deceiv’d, for not far off, we difcovered a large Hind going tocool himfelfina | wide receptacle of {pring water, not unlike to that which proves the Spring of a wide River near. the Temple of Diana at the foot of Tourmagne at Nimes in Languedoc. The Beaft was nothing {cared either at the fight of us, or our Fire-arms 5 nor did we think ie Humanity to injure our Benefa. ‘Gtref& But finding the Rock to open in that place, our Curio- fity led us to enter the Hole; wherein about ten paces from acne ; . a : ~ c oo a — Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library TARTARY. 65 the entrance, we found a {pa- - cious Hall very convenient for — us to take the benefit of the cool Air. The rocky part was fo odly contrived, that you would have taken it forthe Workman- thip of a Monk of Pic-Pyz, had you been near Parfs. The bottom of the Grotto was cleft into an Afcent, the firft fteps of which did not feem very un- eafic. Thereupon our Curiofi- ; ty leading us further, Monthre- | Jor ftrook a light, by vertue of which we purfued the Aftent for about half a quarter of an Hour with fome difficulty, till at length we came to another Hall larger and fairer than that below, Thence we pafled into aGallery that led into {everal others, very much refembling thofe of Chinon for that hereas well as there, the moi(ture ofEarly English Books Online, Copyrig t ¢ ; lmanes reproduced by courtesy of British Library 56 A Voyage into theEarth (training it felfthrough her Veins in 0 many diftinG, as it Were; Springs of Water, tran(- forms it felf into fo many Chry- fal Pendants, ficking and. cru- fted to the Wall, like fo many little Mirrours, in a concave and unequal form, not inferiour to the fee-flakes of Murrban, which are polith’d at Vewice. And thus Nature having, as it were in Sport, thewn us what the can do alone without the Af fiftance of Art, feem'd to teach us the Original of Rivers: For fhe permits the remainder of § this matter, after fhe has form’d thefe rare Pieces of Workman- fhip,to fall partly by way of Di- ftillation from the point ofacon- fus'd multitude of Pyramids, hanging athwart this {fo richly Frettiz'd Ceiling, partly trickling from the glittering Concave up- on an oe, ht © 2019 ProQuest LLC TFARTARYN. 6 on ‘the Pavement that receives it; whence the whole conveys it felf into: feveral: Channels +6 be thence condu@ed inte latger Receptacles; fituated at a’ di- ftance one from another, till it come to the laft and largeft of ell, whence it unfolds it felf like a Napkin, which the ‘violence of the Air Opensas it hangs, till at length it defcendsin a kind of {mall Rain, colourd by ‘the Reflection of the Sui that fhoots in through the hole’at: the top, into a profound Abyfs, ‘not: to be beheld without Terror and Amazement. Thefe Obfervati- ons put me out-of dotbr, thar thatfame Water -which ‘T knew to be a ramafsmicnt of “diftilled Drops, was the Water that ori= ginally enlarg’d> the Receptacle F rit mentioned, andthe Ri- | ver that fprings fromit.“ Whence Is ig LLC Early English Books Online, Copyright © zou ProQuest Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library 68 A Voyage into Tconcluded that all other Springs have the fame Original 5 whe- ther it be,that the Air condensd by Cold, diffolve into moifture 3 or whether the Earth imbibe | this Humour by filtration, or otherwife, as 1 fet forth in my new Syftem of Philofophy, And thus fatisfied with afight fo ex- traordinary, we return'd to Ari- fides, to whom we imparted our Difcoveries ; who thereup- on would needs have us carry our Dinner thither, to the end we might have the pleafure of eating in fuch a delicious Ban- quetting.houfe, The 214, we had nothing but Plains on every fide very richia Pafturage, which was the rea- fon that we met feveral Shep- herds who had left their Tents, where only Night requires their Attendance, MY LTARTARY . 69 The 234. we arrived at the foot of a Mountain coverd with - Box, out of which the Lake called the Swan’s Lake, difchar- Besit (elf through a boleabous ten foot below the top, among the Boughs of a pleafant Wood; where Nature has fo ordered the (loping of the Rock, that fome- times theWater {pouts forth like © many Waves, fometimes {purts out like a Plame of Feathers , and fometimes like an Agret 5 afterwards falling all of a {ad_ en, like a Veil, through the fides of a Demi-oval, eight Foor in. Diameter , it throws it {lf Into a neighbouring River , which in Summer js the de- light of the Shepherds that feed their Flocks in the: Mea. dows which it waters, 1a this River: while they wath their Sheep,. they. {port with their Shep-an j Early English Books Online, Copyright © 2019 ProQuest LLC Images reproduced by courtesy of British Library Ly — 70 A Voyage into. Sheperdefless every one cocker- ing and carefling his own Mi- ftrefS. Which done, they fall to their Mufick, playing feveral Tunes upon Flutes made of the Rine of Willows that cover the Banks upon which they alfo fit while they affwage the hun- ger which their bathing has excited and fharpen’d, petting their own Victuals altogether, One day they gave usa Vifit at our Imcampment, where we prefented them with feveral Glafs Jewels, fuch as they make at Nevers, in lieu of which, they: brought us their Provifions, more than our Cart would carry. The 24#4. we came to a Fo- reft, out of which. there iffued. a Beaft about the bignefs. of an Elephant, which it refembled: in: every thing elfe but: the Prods. fis. This Beaft perceiving-us, recovered and TARTARY. 7 | recovered the Wood, where | could fee him feed upon the ten- der Branches of the Trees, not g being able to nibble the Gra by p reafon of the tallne of his head. | Thereupon judging it to be , tame, I went up to it, and of: | ferd it fome Wheat ia the Skirt | of my Coat, which it {wallow’d | with fome feming acknow- | Iedgment for my kindne&i, and | kept us Company all the time we | ftaid there under the thade of EF the Oakes. The 25¢4, we made a full ftop. The 26#2, being advertifed ' by Caraman , that a Company of neighbouring Shepherds were | packing up their Tents, with | 8 intention to change their poft, and that we fhould be- very. f welcome in their Company; we ; accepted the Propofal, as wellto f continue our Journey with the more