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Travels into the INDIES. Part III. 
Tlie manners 
of the Jafn- 
ttefe. 
Of Pegu. 
let out J and thefe blades are called Boyos , that's to fay Lords ; and to them 
the Dutch apply themfelves when they need any. 
The Japaneje are Idolaters -, they are white like the Europeans ^ fhave the 
Beard, and wear only a pair of Muftachios ^ they are of a good Stature, big 
Bodied and robuft, and have a very^^ftrong voice -, their Habit is a Shirt and 
a long Vefl- , with wide hanging Sleeves -, they gird themfelves about the 
' middle as the Turks do, and go with the Head, Legs and Feet bare -, though 
they wear their Hair fhort , ye^,they fuffer long locks to grow, which they 
commonly tye behind in the Ptrfl'if -a nd never untie them but when they arc 
to appear before fome Perfon of refped. Their Arms are the Bow, Arrow 
and Sword -, their Swords are fo heavy and of fo good Metal, that they'll 
caiily cut a Man in two by the middle, and they only ufe them with both 
hands -, they are great lovers of Sugar, and mingle it with every thing they 
cat ; their ordinary drink is a kind of Beer (which they call Saque,) made 
of Rice , they put Sugar to it, and it is a fudling Liquor. When I was on 
Ship-board (going from VoUaeate to Mafulivatan^) a Hollander gave me fome 
of it to drink out of curiofity , and I found it to be pretty good -, they have 
alfogreen,red and yellow Drinks -, their Towns ar built of wood , and that 
quarter where the Dutch trade,is full of well cultivated Gardens -, they have 
all forts of Fruit there as in Europe, and many Mines of Gold , Silver and 
Copper in the Kingdom. They endeavour by all means to root Chriftiani- 
ty outoijapanj and they fpare neither Promifes , Threatnings nor Pu- 
nifhments, to make Chriftians commit Idolatry when they meet them. 
The King of ?egu treats the Dutch with as great diffidence as the Empe- 
rour OÎ Japan do's. As foon as their Ships are arrived , he caufes their Sails 
and Guns to be brought a-Shoar,and orders them to be ftridly obferved all 
the while they ftay in his Kingdom -, they export from thence Lacre,Gold, 
Silver and Rabies , for their Cloves, Cinnamon , and other Goods. The 
Inhabitants of Fegn are Idolaters -, their Houfes are built of Earth,and cove- 
red with Straw. They fpeak there three Languages quite different from 
thofe that are fpoken in India on this fide the Ganges. It is three days Jour^ 
ney from the Port the Ships put into, to the Cjty of Vegu , where the King 
reltdes, and the way is very dangerous by reafonof Tygrcs and Robbers. 
CHAP. XII. 
Of the Authors departure from Surrat 
for Periia. 
Departure 
from Surrat 
to Perjta. 
HAving relied fometime at Surrat , made Provillons, and got a Banian to 
hire me a Paflage \ I parted from that Town in the month of Februa^- 
ry One thoufand fix hundred fixty and feven,that I might not lofe the time 
of the Mouron , and I arrived at Bender- Abajfi^ which is one of the Sea-ports 
of the Kingdom oîVerfia , from whence I went to Schiras. 1 was unluckily 
wounded in the Thigh by a Shot of one of my Piflols , which had not been 
uncock'd when I fet foot a-Shoar -, I was dreffed in this Town , and ftayed 
there for fometime -, but feeing there was no able Chirurgion there , I re- 
moved my felf to Ifpahan , where I found much relief : My wound being cu- 
red, and having refted my felf for four or five months , I parted from' this 
Capital City oïTerJîa the twenty fifth of O^oher. 
I fhall 
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