!['A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎320] (367/506)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023545053.0x000001/W 3856_0371.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎320] (367/506)")
'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [320] (367/506)
The record is made up of 1 volume (427 pages). It was created in 1698. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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Travelr into PERSIA.
Letter V.
CHAP. X.
^ Voyage to Congo for Tear I; a Vifcourfe of their Generation
departure from Perfia, and Return to India.
T
l W O days after our Arrival ztGomhroov, I went to Congo, lea
ving only the George, a Ship our Agent had built, in this
Port; I was rowed in one of their Boats till the Wind grew ftrong
enough to Sail: Thefe Boats have been in ufe time out of mind; the
Keel is made of one piece of Timber, and the Planks are fewed to
gether, ^with an high Prow and a low Poop. The next Morning
we had brought Loft on the left hand of the Idand leaving a
Woody Ifland uninhabited between Kifmajh and the Main ; At Noon
we came to Bajfatu, an old ruined Town of the Fortugals y fronting
Cong* y where we touched till the Turning of the Tide and the Sea-
Breeze were forcible enough to deliver us to that Port, where were
Five Merchant Ships, and Two Trading to Mcchator Religion.
Come tocongo. Congo is fomething better built than Gomhrocn, and hasfome fmall
Advantage of the Air, and is about Twenty Leagues nearer ^the
Mouth of rhe River Euphrates.
A Dearth in AsuponLand we have obferved the Fruit and all things flag for
the Water as want of Rain, fo we found the fame Cry to refped: the Sea for want
i V nd 35 on f rcc l uent Showers, theOyfters neither bringing forth, nor are any
Pearls produced; fuch Influence does common Fame allow the Hea
venly Moifture to have in their Generation 5 infomuch that little
Choice is to be had, and whatever is of any Value, is very dear.
Here is great Plenty of what they call Ketchery, a Mixture of all
together, or Refufe of Rough, Yellow, and Unequal, which they
fell by Bufhels to the Rujfiansy who carry them over Land to Archan-
geloy and difperfe them through the Northern Coafts, for Ornaments
to their Furr Caps ; which being no Purchafe, I returned.
Come again to Sailing abreaft of Kifmajh, I putin at Loft, the chief Place of the
Butider Aajfce. and loaded with Oyfters, which were the neareft our
I had yet tafted; here are Creyfifh, Crabs, Shrimps, Place, Soles,
and Smelts, befides Mountains of Salt-fiHi for Sale: From hence
Gcmlroon is furnilhed with Wood; w 7 here arriving, we faw the
Phanix , another Englifh Ship; on which before I embark, I (hall
premife fomewhat material, according to my Promife, of Pearls in
general.
The Pearl. The Pearl is a Jewel fuppofed to be the Geniture of a Shell-fidi cal
led Margaritifer, congealed into a very fair, tranfparent. Diaphanous,
beautiful Stone, which is the Partus or Birth of this Filh. As con
cerning their Original and Conception, there is fome difference
among Authors, as betwixt Pliny and Anfelmus Boetius, and between
them and Car dams : Pliny faith that they are conceived in Oyflers,
by a certain Maritime Dew, which thefe Fifli (and fo likewife Scol
lops ) do at a Set Time of the Year moft third after; and according
as the Heavens are more Cloudy or Clear in the time of the taking
in
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A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.
Author: John Fryer, M D.
Publication Details: London: R R [Richard Roberts] for Richard Chiswell at the Rose and Crown in St Paul's Churchyard.
Physical Description: initial Roman numeral pagination (i-xiii) and another Roman numeral pagination at the end of the volume (i-xxiv); with maps and figures; folio.
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The volume contains a table of contents giving letter numbers and chapter headings. Each chapter heading is followed by a detailed breakdown of the contents of that chapter. There are also an alphabetical index ('An Index Explanatory'), and an alphabetical 'Table of some Principal Things herein contained, neither reducible to the Index Explanatory, nor the Contents' of at the back of the volume.
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- 'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.'
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- front, back, spine, edge, head, tail, front-i, i-r:ii-v, 1:10, 1:14, 1:6, 6a:6b, 7:36, 36a:36b, 37:40, 40a:40b, 41:50, 50a:50b, 51:110, 110a:110b, 111:230, 230a:230b, 231:416, 416a:416b, 417:428, 1:24, iii-r:iv-v, back-i
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