‘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’ [‎107] (154/470)

C hap. ix. The Voyages oflohnStruys. 107
we had made a great Breach through the Wall, the General gave r
Charge that the Soldiers, with the help of fome of the Marnners '
"W 1110111(111:orm the Town that ni ght. Upon this mandate all the beft
»«! lli ancl moft refolute Seamen joyntly with the Soldiery, went alhoar and
entered the City, buttheGovernourfenfible, that the Redoubt was
iTitkn*, difabled, the Bridge broken do wn, Communication hindred on the
Land fide,the whole Fleet before theTown on the W "ater-fidc 3 ourMen
ijkk in the City, the Garnfon fcarce of Men 3 and fummarily not in a capa-
fhfk city to defend himfelf, atlaftputs outa white Flag and fo treated
rhaf,, with the General:but what the fum or purport of that Treaty was, we
J J co uld not learn , for the matter was held privy ; and whether the
mli Hitk ^ had betray dhisXruft , in making of a difavantageous Co-
^^•venant for lucres fake, or fome other ftrange affair occurr'd at that
niWdlj* tlme ' 1 cannot refolve my Reader^ certain I am that a Truce was made
between them, for we fired not a Gun after the Deputy left the Ship.
It feemed to us no fmall wonder , that fo brave an Enterprize
lid trimi Should be abandoned at fuch a rate, without fo much as repairing the
feteii 3 that the Common-wealth fuffered in this fliort Attacque, efpe-
itjudv ciall y ' that being one of the moft eminent and abfolutely the moft
sreatGi convenient Place for an or refuge, upon occafion: and not
0n |y commands all the mantim Towns of , but is likewife the
only Magazine of the whole Land, through which all Wares and
rnM M«chandifo are tranfmitKd, coming from Sea ; and is in Ihortthe
L ;> ^yoftbarCnlf But this rs a Chapter too hard for me to read , and
U themyftwesoffuch Politicians are fometimes fo abftrtife.as every
51 head cannot penetrate or unriddle. '
Xf ^ hei1 we had removed the Siege o we fet fail za„«.
1 kt j • w ^ ch 15 , a fer "l e Kland. hut fuhjeft to Earth-quakes
edooK ' and influence of Meteors. In the year of Grace 1507 happened a
fin! d^dfull Earth-quake, which deftroyed one Moyety of the Place, and
.^ajfubverted all theSfrand-countrey : and afterwards in the vear 160
n law t happened another, which deftroyed another Mediety ,or half of what
ute 8 • at not only Men and Beafts , but alfo whole
fcaf# Mountamsand Villages were waflied away with the inundation of
fldWthe Sea. There are at this day many of the Inhabitants which are
^ 1 ™ aic ^ en with Lightning. It is bad coming to anchor about this
0 f#Ifland, by reafon of the fteepnefs near the Coaft , having within a
ef# * O & Piftoi-