The voyages and adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indiaes with a relation and description of most of the places thereof, their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave / written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain ; done into English by H.C. Gent.

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The voyages and adventures of Fernand Mendez Pinto, a Portugal, during his travels for the space of one and twenty years in the Kingdoms of Ethiopia, China, Tartaria, Cauchinchina, Calaminham, Siam, Pegu, Japan, and a great part of the East-Indiaes with a relation and description of most of the places thereof, their religion, laws, riches, customs, and government in time of peace and war : where he five times suffered shipwrack, was sixteen times sold, and thirteen times made a slave / written originally by himself in the Portugal tongue and dedicated to the Majesty of Philip King of Spain ; done into English by H.C. Gent.

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Pinto, Fernão Mendes, d. 1583.

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London :: Printed by J. Macock, for Henry Cripps and Lodowick Lloyd,

1653.

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Contents

• title page
• TO THE Right Noble Lord, and worthy of all Honor, William, Earl of Strafford, Vicount Wentworth, Baron Wentworth of Wentworth, Woodhouse, Newmarsh, Oversley, and Raby.
• AN Apologetical Defence OF FERNAND MENDEZ PINTO HIS HISTORY.
• The Contents.
• CHAP. I. After what manner I past my Youth in the Kingdom of Portugal, until my going to the Indiaes.
• CHAP. II. My departure from Portugal for the Indiaes, and my imbarquing there for the Straight of Mecqua.
• CHAP. III. Our travelling from Mazua by land to the Mother of Prester Iohn; as also our re∣imbarquing at the Port of Arquic, and that which befell us by the incounter of three Turkish Vessels.
• CHAP. IV. A Mutiny happening in the Town of Moca, the occasion thereof, that which befell thereupon, and by what means I was carried to Ormuz; as also my sailing from thence to Goa, and what success I had in that Voyage.
• CHAP. V. Gonçallo vaz Coutinho's Treaty with the Queen of Onor; his assaulting of a Turkish Galley, and that which hapned unto us as we were upon our return to Goa.
• CHAP. VI. What passed till such time as Pedro de Faria arrived at Malaca; his receiving an Embassador from the King of Batas; with his sending me to that King, and that which arrived to me in that Voyage.
• CHAP. VII. What happened to me at Penaiu with the King of Batas expedition against the Tyrant of Achem; and what he did after his Victory over him.
• CHAP. VIII. What past between the King of Batas and me, until such time as I imbarqued for Malaca; my Arrival in the Kingdom of Queda, and my return from thence to Malaca.
• CHAP. IX. The Arrival of an Embassador at Malaca from the King of Aaru to the Captain thereof; his sending me to the said King, my coming to Aaru, and that which happend to me after my departing from thence.
• CHAP. X. By what means I was carried to the Town of Ciaca, and that which befell me there; my going to Malaca with a Mahometan Merchant; and the Tyrant of Achems Army marching against the King of Aaru.
• CHAP. XI. The Death of the King of Aaru, and the cruel Iustice that was executed on him by his Enemies; the going of his Queen to Malaca, and her reception there.
• CHAP. XII. The Queen of Aaru's departure from Malaca; her going to the King of Jantana; his summoning the Tyrant of Achem to restore the Kingdom of Aru, and that which past between them thereupon.
• CHAP. XIII. My departure from Malaca to go to Pan; that which fortuned after my arrival there; with the murther of the King of Pan, and the cause thereof.
• CHAP. XIV. The Misfortune that befell us at the entry into the River of Lugor; our hiding our selves in a Wood, with that which happened unto us afterwards; and our return unto Malaca.
• CHAP. XV. Antonio de Faria's setting forth for the Isle of Ainan, his arrival at the River of Tinacoren; and that which befell us in this Voyage.
• CHAP. XVI. Antonio de Faria's Arrival at the Bay of Camoy, where was the fishing of Pearls for the King of China; the Relation made to him of the Isle of Ainan; with that which happened to him by the means of a renegado Pyrat, and otherwise.
• CHAP. XVII. Antonio de Faria's Arrival at the Port: The Information that Antonio de Faria had of the Country; some passages between him and the Nautarel of the Town; his going to the River of Madel; with his incountring a Pyrat there, and that which passed betwixt them.
• CHAP. XVIII. What Antonio de Faria did with the Captain of the Pyrats Iunk; that which past be∣tween him and the people of the Country; with our casting away upon the Island of Theeves.
• CHAP. XIX. In what sort we escaped miraculously out of this Island; our passage from thence to the River of Xingrau; our incountring with a Chinese Pyrat, and the agreement we made with him.
• CHAP. XX. Our Encounter at Sea with a little Fisher-boat, wherein were eight Portugals very sore hurt; and Antonio de Faria's meeting and fighting with Coia Acem the Pyrat.
• CHAP. XXI. What Antonio de Faria did after his Victory; his departure from the River of Tinlau, with his ill success thereupon, and the succor we met withall.
• CHAP. XXII. Antonio de Faria hath news of the five Portugals that were made Captives; his Letter to the Mandarin of Nouday about them; and his assaulting the said Town.
• CHAP. XXIII. Antonio de Faria's Navigation till he came to the Port of Liampoo; his arrival and gallant reception there by the Portugals.
• CHAP. XXIV. Antonio de Faria departs from Liampoo for to seek out the Island of Calempluy, the strange things that we saw, and the hazard we ran in our voyage thither.
• CHAP. XXV. Our Arrival at Clempluy, and the description thereof; what hapned to Antonio de Faria in one of the Hermitages thereof, and how we were discovered.
• CHAP. XXVI. Our casting away in the Gulf of Nanquin, with all that befell us after this lamentable Shipwrack.
• CHAP. XXVII. Our arrival at the Town of Taypor, where we were made Prisoners, and so sent to the Citie of Nanquin.
• CHAP. XXVIII. The Marvels of the Citie of Nanquin, our departure from thence towards Pequin, and that which hapned unto us, till we arrived at the Town of Sempitay.
• CHAP. XXIX. Our Arrival at Sempitay, our encounter there with a Christian woman, toge∣ther with the Original and Foundation of the Empire of Chi∣na; and who they were that first peopled it.
• CHAP. XXX. The Foundation of the four chief Cities of China; together with which of the Kings of China it was that built the Wall between China and Tartaria; and many things that we saw as we past along.
• CHAP. XXXI. The order which is observed in the moving Towns that are made upon the Ri∣vers, and that which further befell us.
• CHAP. XXXII. Our Arrival at the City of Pequin; together with our imprisonment, and that which moreover happened unto us there; as also the great Majesty of the Officers of their Court of Iustice.
• CHAP. XXXIII. What past betwixt us, and the Tanigores of mercy, with the great favors they did us; and a brief Relation of the City of Pequin, where the King of China kept his Court.
• CHAP. XXXIV. The Order which is observed in the Feasts, that are made in certain Inns; and the State, which the Chaem of the two and thirty Vniversities keeps; with certain remarkable things in the City of Pequin.
• CHAP. XXXV. The Prison of Xinanguibaleu, wherein those are kept, which have been condem∣ned to serve at the reparations of the wall of Tartaria; and another inclo∣sure, called the Treasure of the dead, with the revenues whereof this prison is maintained.
• CHAP. XXXVI. Of an Edifice, scituated in the midst of the river, wherein were the hundred and thirteen Chappels of the Kings of China; with the publique Granaries established for the relief of the poor.
• CHAP. XXXVII. The great number of Officers, and other people, which are in the King of Chi∣na's Pallace; with our going to Quincay to accomplish the time of our Exile; and what befell us there.
• CHAP. XXXVIII. A Tartar Commander enters with his Army into the Town of Quincay, and that which followed thereupon; with the Nauticors besieging the Castle of Nixiamcoo, and the taking of it by the means of some of us Portugals.
• CHAP. XXXIX. The Mitaquer departs from the Castle of Nixiamcoo, and goes to the King of Tartary his Camp before Pequin; with that which we saw till we arrived there; and the Mitaquers pre∣senting us unto the King.
• CHAP. XL. The King of Tartaria's raising of his Siege from before Pequin, for to return into his Country, and that which pas∣sed until his Arrival there.
• CHAP. XLI. In what manner we were brought again before the King of Tartaria; with our departure from that Kingdom; and all that we saw, and befell us in our voyage, till our arrival at the Court of the King of Cauchinchina.
• CHAP. XLII. The reception of the Tartarian Ambassador by the King of Cauchenchina, with the said Kings going from thence to the City of Uzam∣guee, and his triumphal Entry thereinto.
• CHAP. XLIII. Our Departure from the City of Uzamguee, and our adventures till our arri∣vall at the Isle of Tanixumaa, which is the first Land of Jap∣pon; with our going ashore there.
• CHAP. XLIV. The great honour which the Nautaquim, Lord of the Isle, did to one of us for having seen him shoot with an Harquebuse; and his sending me to the King of Bungo; and that which passed till my arrival at his Court.
• CHAP. XLV. The great mishap that befel the King of Bungo's Son, with the ex∣tream danger that I was in for the same; and what followed thereupon.
• CHAP. XLVI. My curing the young Prince of Bungo; with my return to Tanixua, and imbarquing there for Liampoo; and also that which hapened to us on land, after the shipwrack we suffered by the way.
• CHAP. XLVII. The carrying of us to the Town of Pungor, and presenting us to the Broquen, Governour of the Kingdom; with that which ensued upon it.
• CHAP. XLVIII. The King of the Lequios sending a cruel Sentence against us to the Broquen of the Town, where we were prisoners, to the end he should put it in execution; and that which hapened unto us, till our arrival at Liampoo.
• CHAP. XLIX. My sayling from Liampoo to Malaca, from whence the Captain of the Fortress, sent me to the Chaubainhaa at Martabano; and all that befl us in our voyage thither.
• CHAP. L. The Continuance of our voyage to the Bar of Martabano; and certain memorable particularities hapening there.
• CHAP. LI. In what manner the Chaubainhaa rendred himself to the King of Bramaa, and the cruel proceeding against the Queen of Martabano, and the Ladies, her Attendants.
• CHAP. LII. In what sort the sentence of Death was executed on the person of the Chaubainhaa, King of Martaban, Nhay Canatoo his wife, and an hundred and forty women; with that which the King of Bramaa did after his return to Pegu.
• CHAP. LIII. That which passed between the Queen of Prom, and the King of Bramaa, together with the first Assault that was given to the City and the Success thereof.
• CHAP. LIV. The King of Bramaa his besieging of the Fortress of Meleytay, with his going from thence to Avaa; and that which passed there.
• CHAP. LV. Our going with the King of Bama's Ambassadour to the Calaminham, with the Course which we held until we arrived at the Temple or Pagod of Timagoogoo, and a Description thereof.
• CHAP. LVI. The great and sumptuous Procession made in this Pagode, together with their Sacrifices; and other particularities.
• CHAP. LVII. What we saw in the continuing of our voyage, until we arrived at the City of Timplan.
• CHAP. LVIII. The Magnificent Reception of the King of Bramaa his Ambassadour, at the City of Timplam; and that which passed betwixt the Calaminham, and him.
• CHAP. XLIX. An ample relation of this Empire of the Calaminham, and of the Kingdomes of Pegu, and Bramaa, with the continuance of our voyage, and what we saw among the same.
• CHAP. LX. Our arrivall at Pegu, with the death of the Roolim of Mounay.
• CHAP. LXI. The election of the new Roolim of Mounay, the grand Talagrepo of these Gentiles of the Kingdome of Pegu.
• CHAP. LXII. In what manner the Roolim was conducted to the Isle of Mounay, and put into possession of his dignity.
• CHAP. LXIII. That which the King of Bramaa did after his arrivall at the City of Pegu, together with his besieging of Savady.
• CHAP. LXIIII. A continuation of the successe which we had in this voyage, with my departure from Goa to Zunda, and what passed during my abode there.
• CHAP. XLIV. The expedition of the Pangueyran, Emperor of Jaoa, and King of Demaa, against the King of Passeruan, and all that which passed in this war.
• CHAP. XLV. The death of the King of Demaa by a very strange accident, and that which arrived thereupon.
• CHAP. LXVI. That which befell us, untill our departure towards the Port of Zunda, from whence we s sail for China, and what afterwards happened unto us.
• CHAP. XLVII. My passing from Zunda to Siam, where in the company of the Portugals I went to the War of Chiammay; and that which the King of Siam did, untill he returned into his Kingdome, where his Queen poysoned him.
• CHAP. XLVIII. The lamentable death of the King of Siam, with certain illustrious and memorable things done by him during his life, many other accidents that ar∣rived in this Kingdome.
• CHAP. LXIX. The King of Bramaa's enterprize upon the Kingdom of Siam; and that which past untill hi arrivall at the city of Odiaa, with his besieging of it, and all that ensued thereupon.
• CHAP. LXX. The King of Bramaaes raising his siege from before the City of Odia; with a description of the Kingdome of Siam; and the fertility thereof.
• CHAP. LXXI. A continuation of that which happened in the Kingdome of Pegu, as well during the life, as after the death of the King of Bramaa.
• CHAP. LXXII. That which arrived in the time of Xenim de Satan, and an abominable ase that befell to Diego Suarez; together with the Xemindoos expedition against Xenim de Satan; and that which insued thereupon.
• CHAP. LXXIII. That which the Xemindoo did, after he was Crowned King of Pegu, with the Chaumigrems; the King of Bramaaes Foster-Brothers coming against him, with a great Army; and divers other memorable things.
• CHAP. LXXIV. The finding of the Xemindoo, and bringing of him to the King; with the manner of his execution and death; and other particularities concerning the same.
• CHAP. LXXV. My imbarking in the Kingdome of Pegu to go to Malaca, and from thence to Japan; and a strange accident which arrived there.
• CHAP. LXXVI. Our passing from the Town of Fucheo, to the Port of Hiamangoo; and that which befell us there; together with my departure from Malaca, and arrival at Goa.
• CHAP. LXXVII. Father Belquior's and my departure from the Indiaes to go to Japan, and that which befell us till our arrivall at the Island of Champeiloo.
• CHAP. LXXVIII. Our departure from the Iland of Champeiloo, and our arrivall at that of Lam∣pacau; with a relation of two great disasters which hapned in Chi∣na unto two Portugal Colonies; and of a strange accident that befell in the Country.
• CHAP. LXXIX. Our arrival in the Kingdome of Bungo, and that which pass'd there.
• CHAP. LXXX. My reception by the King of Bungo, as Ambassador from the Vice-Roy of the Indiaes.
• CHAP. LXXXI. What past after our departure from Zequa, till my arrivall in the Indiaes, and from thence into the Kingdome of Portugal.
• ERRATA.