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‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ [‎21] (60/470)

The record is made up of 1 volume (378 pages). It was created in 1683. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.

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C h a p , IL The V oyagcs of John Struys. 21
poflefled, do only caufe a Slave to carry it away and hide it a while, c r »
\X and foon after fetch it home again : affoon as they have got it home a- 1 ^
, ^ ^ gain,they Sacrifice fome beaft,or Fo\vl 3 or perhaps fhut it up in a Hen-
L, ^ P £t rooft, thinking thereby to afl wage and moderate the ill temper of the
childs fp'ir it, which otherwife would lead him to fome unhappy end.
The Religion of the Madagafcars , is hardly worth recounting;,
nil P ^ they being wholly Strangers both to Houfes of Worfhip , and alfo Kf 5 "" 1
to Prayer. They beleeve that there is a God who hath made both
Heaven and Earth , but neither adore norfervehim, yet growing
old or fick , they make a kind of Confeflion to him. They alio
'Wor lit beleeve that there is a Devil,who is the Occallon of all evil, having the
b power of Life and Death in his hand , and that they muft conlerve
K J' Otkc a perpetual Peace with him, by Worihip and Sacrifice. Befides their
1 ® vitl Opinion that there is a God and an evilSpirit,they have a thirdPower,
®which they call Dia» tJManam, or Lord of Wealth, at whofe difpofing
ffiBAe,® will , they think that they are maderichandprofper in their affairs.
^ it is k They leem alfo to have fome light of invifible Angels, and of the firft
Wot peopling of the W orld,after the Creation by ^yfdam the re-
uriKtiafii peopling thereof,after the great Deluge by Noah-,as alfo fome glance of
rdifptdic a Saviour, who was madea P'uculumjov fome great offence committed
# ^ by allmankind in general.They have alfo their Fafts and Holy-days,
fntkt, oi Circumcifion is alfo a rite m ufe with them, which they do at one
kek#t certain time of the year , with great folemnity. The day before
,o/iIjifflirtk all the Friends and Acquaintance meet together , and drink Me-
ittajai theglin till they grow raging mad : and then draw up upon the
km 0 beating of a Drum,exercifing with their Darts and * Affagays > the *
lyfaid> Youn g inen a "d V/omenall the time dancing in Mafquerado , and A%a^
alive« the Evening conclude with a luxurious Banquet , and open table
'iiesM - r pleafs to come. At night the mother takes the child tO call it, is
y tbenil« bed with her, in a little Ho ufe made for that purpofe, about a moneth
]? e ^> r e the day of Gircumcifion , by the Father and Uncles of theJ' Zr
the ri Child. The next morning by break of day, the Woman rifeth , and
very Pf S ^ er 1 afterwards her child : which done fhe dreffes it with hn Z'
. don* ^ orra '- and Precious ftones, and thereupon they fall a drumming
1 Yeic# a S ain ' afo* which a great faience is made, and all the Guefls which
J. are there, mull withdraw , as alfo all fuch as have any thing about
! 0 (# their body that is red j thinking that if fuch were prefent„the blood
would

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The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships , authored by Jan Janszoon Stroys, and translated from the Dutch by John Morrison. The volume also contains two narratives written by Captain David Butler, relating to the ‘taking in of Astrachan by the Cosacs’, and is illustrated with plates ‘first designed and taken from the Life by the Author himself.’

Publication details: Printed for Samuel Smith at the Princes Arms in St Pauls Church-yard, London, 1683.

Physical description: 24 unnumbered pages, including preface and contents; 378 pages; 21 plates (20 folded); 1 map; Quarto.

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1 volume (378 pages)
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This volume contains a table of contents giving chapter headings, a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter, and page references. There is also a list of illustrations (plates) giving titles and page references. There is an alphabetic index at the back of the volume. Note the following misprinted page numbers: 26 instead of 62; 75 instead of 87; 134 instead of 132; 135 instead of 133; 136 instead of 134; 137 instead of 139; 124 instead of 142; 175 instead of 157; 109 instead of 209; 119 instead of 219; 212 instead of 220; 213 instead of 223.

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‘The perillous and most unhappy voyages of John Struys, through Italy, Greece, Lifeland, Moscovia, Tartary, Media, Persia, East-India, Japan, and other places in Europe, Africa and Asia. Containing, I. Most accurate remarks and observations of the distinct qualities, religion, politie, customs, laws and properties of the inhabitants: II. A due description of the several cities, towns, forts and places of trust, as to their site and strength, fortifications by nature, or art, &c. with other things worthy of note: and III. An exact memorial of the most disastrous calamities which befell the author in those parts (viz) by ship-wrack, robberies, slavery, hunger, tortures, with other incommodities and hardships’ [‎21] (60/470), British Library: Printed Collections, 1600/630., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023695183.0x00003d> [accessed 31 October 2024]

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