UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SI QUÆRIS PENINSULAM-AMENAM. CIRCUMSPICE 40°C 1837 ARTES SCIENTIA mt VERITAS LIBRARY OF THE PLURIBUS UNUM TLEBOR QOWWWWW.We. UDUT, GIFT OF REGENTLL HUBBARD HIHIIL IRHUG P. 51-54 i lac . Hoerd Eder Property A Rodard Elms Robard Elimi B. . ܂ . ܝ . ܀ f, , ܪ 1 1 ܪ . . T, H E It LIFE & ADVENTURES OF Sig Gaudentio di Lucca : WRITTEN BY HIMSELÉ. Giving an account of 2 Country in the midſt of the vaſt Defarts of Africa, being unknown to any perſon except Sig. Gaudentio, and its in- habitants, altho' as Ancient, Populous, and Civilized, as the Chineſe. With a particular Account of their Aatiquity, Origin, Religion, Cuftoms, Policy, &c. the manner how they got firſt over thoſe van De ſarts, and their method of travelling. Interſperſed with ſeveral inoſt ſurprizing andcụ, rious Incidents. * COPIED FROM THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT KEPT IN ST. MARY'S LIBRARY AT VENICE. Firyt AMERICAN Edition. 1 NORWICH: Printed and ſold by John TRUMBULL, at his Printing Office a few rods wcft from the Court Houſe 1.1, D2C, SVI C 10. IL Simon Berlington Ru Regent R. L. Hubbard 8.11 - 1922 e ********* $+ +++++++++++ +++++++++++++ T THE DIFESADVENTURE OF Sian. Gaudentio di Lucca WROTE AT BOLOGNA IN ITALY was called, becauſe my Anceſtors were ſaid to be originally of that place. Tho' they had been ſettled for ſome time at Raguſa, where was born. My Father's name was Gaſparino di Lucca, heretofore, a merchant of ſome note in thoſe parts my mother was a Corſican Lady, reported to be deſcended from thofe who had been the chief perſonages at Illand, great grandfather, Barnardino di Luca ſoldier, and captain of the great Galley, wbo was general for the Ven the famous battle of Lepanto aga the We had a tradition in our fami Venerio's fon by a Grecian Lady great que ty, fame ſay deſcended from thc Pa 031 had Life & Adventures of had been Emperors of Conſtantinople. But ſhe dying in childbed, and they having been only privatciy married, Venerio bred him up as the fös of a friend of bris who was killed in the wars. But, to return to myſeif My father having a plentiful fortune, took particular care of the education of his childrer : Iic had only two ſons, of whom I was the youngd, and a daughter who died yourg. Fin- ding I had a grea: inclination to learning, he pro- noted it, by providing me with the beſt maiters, Boil I was fir to go in the Univerſity. The browledge of languages, being of great uſe as well as ornament to young gentlemen, he taught melimſelt thai inixed language called Lingua Franca, lo neceffary in Eafter countries It is a iungon of all languages mixed together. He afterwards fent me to the famous Univerſity of Paris to learn French, at the fame time with my other ſtudies ; where I lived ſome time,and main- rainer! my thefes of univerſal Philoſophy under the celebrated Monf. Du Hamel. I was entering into my 1911 year, and bad fome thoughts of taking to the church; when my brother wrote me the melancholy account of my father and mother's death, and the unforto. natc occafion of it ; which in thert was, That having loſt his richielt ühip with all his effcêts oj Pirates, and wer with ſeveral other loſſes ir threw him and my mother into ſo deep a melancholy; that it broke their hearts, dying in tliree weeks one after the other. My brother told me he was not able to maintain me at the Unive:fi'y; as had Signor GAUDENTIO DI LUCCA. had been ; but acquainted me he had made a ſhift to rig out a ſmall veffel, wherein he had put his all ; and invited me to join the ſmall portion thai fell to my ſhare, along with him, with which, he ſaid, we could make a pretty good bottom ; and foretrieve the ſhattered fortune of our family. Not to be too prolix, I followed his advice ; he fold his houſe and gardens to pay his father's cre- ditors, and put what was left, together with my little ſtock, into that unfortunate bottom. We fet fail from Raguſa, the third of March, A. D. 1688, for Cyprus and Alexandria ; but, as we were purſuing our voyage, one morning in a pro- digious fog, as if the ſea were fatal jo our family, we ſaw on a ſudden two Algerinc rovers coining cloſe uo to ur, one on eacli fide. We had ſcar ce tiine to ſee where we were, when they fired up- on us, and commanded us to yield, or we were dead men. My brother and I, conſidering that our all was at thake; and that we had better die honourably than be made llaves, called up our men, who were but 23 in all, of whom five were young gentlemen, who had engaged to try their fortune along with us They were arred only with ſwords and piſtols under their girdles ; af- ter a ſhort conſultation, we reſolved to fight it out to the lait par we turned back to back to make head agaialt both ſides. My brother in the middle of one rank, and tryfelf in the other ; the enerny mountertour deck by crowds, looking on 115 as madmen, io pretend to make any r fil- tance, but they were ſoon made to leap back, at leaſt all that were able; for being clofe up widt them, and the enemys crowded together we fire ed our piſtois ſo luckily, that foarce one nifed do. sag execution. Seeing them in this confufion, Life 68 Adventures of we made a puſh at them on each Gide, ſtill keep ing our ranks, and drove the remainder head- long off the deck ; this we did twice before any of our men dropped. We were grappled ſo cloſe, they had no uſe of their cannon or muſkets, and ſcarce thought of firing their piſtols at us, but expected we ſhould yield immediately, or to have borne us down with their weight. The Arch- Pirate, who was a ſtout, well built young man, raged like a lion, calling his men a thouſand cow- ards, fo loud, that his voice was heard above all the cries of the foldiers. The edge of their fury was a little abated at the dropping of ſo many men. They began to fire at fome diſtance: which did us more harın than their moſt furious attacks. My brother ſeeing his men begin to drop in their turn, ordered me to face the one fhip, while he with his rank leaped in amongſt the enemy in the other. He did it with fuch an intrepidity, that he made a gap among the thick- eſt of them immediately. But their numbers clo- fing together, their very weight drove him back in ſpight of all he could do, that he loſt ſeveral of his men before he could recover his poft. The enemy would neither board us,nor leave us ; but Äring at us continually, ſtill killed ſome of our men. There were now only eleven of us left; and no hopes of victory or quarter after ſuch ob. ffinate refiſtance. They durft not come to a cloſe engagement with us for all this ; when my brother, to die as honourably as he could, once more leaped into the Pirate's ſhip, and ſeeing their captain in the midit of them, made at him with all his might, calling on the few he bad left to fecond him, he ſoon cut his way throughs ; but juſt as he was coming up to him, a coward- ly Signer GaudenTIO DI Lucca. ly Turk clapt a piſtol juſt below his two ſhoul. der blades, and I believe ſhot him quite through the heart, for he dropped down dead on the ſpot, The Turk that ſhot him was run through the bo- dy by one of our men, and he himſelf, with the oihers that were left, being quite overpowered, were all cut in pieces. I had yet left four men on my lide againſt the Ieſſer ſhip, and had until then kept off the enemy from boarding ; but the pirates giving a great thout at my brothers fall, the captain of the thip I was engaged with, who was the Arch-pirare's brother, cried out to his crew, that it was a ſhame to ſtand all day firing at five men. So he leaps on my deck, and made at one, with his piſtol flead- ily pois'd in his hand. I met him with equal reſolution ; he came boldly up within (word's length, and fired his piſtol direaly at Diy face : he aimed his ſhot lo right, that one of the balls went thro my hair, and the other ſcarr'd the fide of my neck. But before he could ſecond his thor, I gave him ſuch a ſtroke with my broad word, between the temple and the left ear, that he im- mediately fell and expired. Juſt at that moment, a muſket-ball went thro' the brawny part of my right arm, and at the ſame time a Turk hit me on the back ſide of my head with the butt-end of his muſket, that I fell on the body of my llain enemy. My companions, all but one, who di- ed of his wounds ſoon after, fell honourably by my ſide. The Turks pour'd in from both thips like wolves upon their prey, and fell to ſtripping the dead bodies and threw them into the ſea. All our crew beſide myſelf were ſlain or gaſping with 75 as of the chemy. When they come to ſtrip me like Life & Adventures of like the reſt, I was juſt come to myſelf, being only ſtunned by the ſtroke of the muſket : I had gol upon my knees, endeavoring to reach my Tword to defend myſelf to the laſt gafp, when three of thera fell down upon me, and preſing me to the deck, while others brought cords and tied my hands, to carry me to the captain. He was dreſling a flight wound he had in his leg with a pikol thot; and four women in Perlian habits ftanding by ; three of them ſeeming to be atten- dants to the fourth, who was a moſt exquiſite beauty, except an Amazonian kind of fierceneſs in her looks, \Vhen I was brought thus bound to the Captain, they ailured him l' was the man, that had hain his brother, and done the moſt harm of any of the rest. The Captain in great fury, called for a new ſeymitar, he had in his cab- in, feid, let me cleave the head of this Chriſtian dog, as he did my poor brother's. With that he drew the lemiar, and yras going to ſtrike, when to the alonibment of the very Barbarians, the ſtrange lady cry dour, o fare that brave young man! and immediately falls down on her knees by me, catching me in her arms, and claſping me cloſe to her boſom, and covering my body with her own), cryed out, friise, cruel man, but ſtrike thro' me, for otherwiſe a hair of his head (ball not be burt. The Pirate lifted up his eyes to- wards Heaven, and with a groan enough to break bis heart, ſaid, how, cruel worn thall his ftranger in a moment obtain more than I can with all my fighs and tears! Is tliis your para. mour that robs me of what I have fought for with the danger of my life ? No, this Chriſtian dhe Mall be no longer my curfed rival ; and lifting his hand, was going to itrike again, whisa the UP eri koupit hoid, et otsis as in val, never ſa vy his face ocfore, nor ever will again, if you will but ſpare his life, there is ſomething, ſays ſhe, in this young man that he muſt not die and if you will pro nife and ſwear by the moſt Holy Alcoran, you will do him to harın, I not only promiſe to be your wife, but give you leave to fell him to ſome honourable per- fon for a ſlave, and will never ſee him more, ſay, After a little pauſe, the Pirate ſwore in that folemn manner, never to do me any hurt direct- or indirealy, and the lady ordered one of her ſervants to attend me conſtantly. So I was un- bound, and was immediately carried under deck to the other end of the Grip, when the Turk commanding his men to ſteer back for Alexand ria, in order as I ſuppoſed to diſpoſe of me, that he might be rid, as he thought, of ſo forni- dable a rival WHILE was under confinement, ſeveral of the Pirates were tolerably civil to me knowing the aſcendant the lady had over their caprain, and being witneſſes, how ſhe had fav'd my life One day being indiſpoſed for want of air, I begged to be carried upon deck to breathe a little ; when I came ир, I ſaw the lady, with her woman, ftal- ding at the other end of the ſhip. made her very reſpectable bow at a diſance; but as ſoon as the caſt her eye upon me, ſhe went down into the cabin, I fuppoſe, to keep her promiſe with the Captain After I was carried down again, aſked the moſt fenible and civilized of the Pi tes, who their Captain was, and who was fair 2 tentare of fair deliverer. Blowig, aud Sy vhat means ſhe came to be anasz sie betauie lhe ſeemned to be a perſon olurii higiran, He told me his Captain': garis tamici, Pori to the Dev of A Mes wito del porta his father's houſe on acconet of hlz vous motaer-in-law's falling iti ove with him. Tarch resson his father had contrived to have bits allisated but his younger brother, bo tam fame mother difeovered the delig. So callabica aband of itsat young men, they leized i Weroticir failier's beit Thips, and relolvat to follow the profesion they were now of his sy berre et their father's death. That as for hele la batayed his life, he was the late wife of ct Binge af die Curdi, tributary to th King of Berlin, whole huſband lied been laiely lileri bursachty, or in an am- burcade of the win259. The ihe Prince had been ſent by the King to Alexandria, who ap. prehending an interaction among his ſubjecte, had ordered him to trea: Tor fond troops of Arabi- That he wisi ere a Fery hand- fome equipage, and nok tiis beautiful wife along with him pur Cantzin, lipeaza to be there at the ſame time to ieri ti! prizes, 31. ford ſeveral articles at great vide, toss Curit Lord and iddy, ha a lo contracted a particular friendſhip for him, rather orlis with le attended them, and on red his leruict 01:-** se lions. an berle Ar fength the Cari bar performed his commillion, and was caur the return when we parceived ogr Captain to be cutremely mclan- choly and psaive, but out 30: ell what was the cauſe of it. He oli 196 1 vite one day, that he lulpected there was por forming against himfelf Signor GAUDINTIO DI LUCCA himſelf, or the Card, as he overheard fome Arz. bian ſtrangers, which indicated fufpicions in him : he bid me to attend him well arned where he went. The event proved he had reaſons for his faſpicions; for one evening, as the Curd and his wife were taking the air, with our Captain, who was always of the party, paling thro' a lit- tle wood about a league out of town, ix Arabi- an horſemen, very well mounted ; came fwiftly up to us, and without ſaying a word, two of them fixed their piſtols directly at the Cardim Lord, who was foremoſt, but by good fortuna milled us all. The Curd drew his fcymitar, and ruthing in among them, cut off the foromoit man's head, as clean as if it had been a poppy; bat a dvancing too far, one of them turned thort, and ihot him in the flank, that he Üropped down dead immediately, they then rode off with incred ible fwiftneſs. We condated the difconfolate, lady and her dead huſband back to the tom, where the people made no more of it, being accuitorna to ſuch things, than if it had been a common ac cident When her gricf was a little abitel our Cip. tain told the lady, that it was not ſafe for her t* return home the ſame way that the chine ; that all probability thoſe who had lued her huſband Vrore in confederacy wil te ditlifted party, and woulI way-lay ber, cither for his papers, or her goods. That he had two thios well-maried at her fervice, and would condue her ffe by fe to fome part of the Perſian Empire, from whence fhe might get into her owa country, Slie con ſented at lalt, and went on board wither attest dants and clots. Our Captein, you may be fure و وای از این بازی را با این کاراته Life of fure, wasio no baile is carry irer tome, he had fallen deſperately in tre vith her. So that in- flend of carrying berto any of the Perſian domin- ions, ha direded ristic for Alu-ishearing his father was dead : Har seung with you, it has made hi:n after his seafares for the preſent. He has trycd zil ways to guia ber love, bor ſhe would not give him the least encouragement, 'sill this late accident, by which the faved your life. Here ended the Pirate's relation, Nor long after we arrived 3: Alexandria, where the Pirate ſold all the effe&s, taken on board our fhip. He defer tsindd to carry the to Grand Ca- rio, to fell ole tega strange miesto sat he had an acquaintancs aith, LED I Mould never be acard of niort. WHEN we arrived at Grand Cario, I was car. lied to the place where the merchants teet to ex- change this commodities, there were perſons of alsidit til the Baileth and Indian nations. At fait, the Piisit and itsange merchant (pyed one anoihir dito ai the instant, after {one autual complim tots, the Pirata read from he had met with Picks i perſon as the promiſed to procure for him va veară before, meaning inylet, The merchant eyed ice from 10 toe, with the moſt penetrating louk line from myllie, pe ſeemed pleaſed at the time time be bas very richly lad, attended with tizejang men, who ſeem- ed rather fonszhan fiigenH: Karl the Pirate whal he muli giver for tres de tot. Ho, I had coſt lim yeny dear, and is that recounted to bim all the citchartane: esteht, wherein Was talen, aid to site hija: htts due, repreſench Virgiar GAUDENTIở ĐI Luccx it no my is ways to mais advantage. Hoiatat nos are o de austineations the monollers lises, hat he wanted was a perſon who vadaslar **tive him an account of the arts and this mesi, ás cukorns, &co. of the Custom The Pirate told him, was an European tist: G chokar, and could be doubanaiz. ursery repeat to my country made the merchant roleve to When they caije to the price, the l'Irase derttanded to Qurces or gol, and abivee fitk carport. The and manded all the books, glabes, mathematical in- sident in the planteverbs tai y est a. pre the bargain this was amet was delivered to the merchant. ſoon as I wisu imalo Et power be embraced arth a great deal of tenderneſs ſaying, I ſhould not re- pent my change of life ; his attendants came to me, and embraced me the ſame manner, elitrig nie brother, and exprefled great jo to: 1 czasie heir company. חנו necesin Birl the young an die dowa to the canvantera or inn, that might re- freſh myſelf, and change my habit to the ſameas I was very much ſurpriied at fuch unexpected civilities from ſtrangers. But, befora I went, I turned to the Pirate, and fiid to him that made the merchant put on Very thoughtful look that I banked him for keeping his promiſe in faving my life ; but ad. ded, that the 'the fortune of war had put it in his power to ſell me like a beaſt in the market, might be in mine ſome time or other to render the rith an like Life & Adventures of 1.za Liadnete. So we parced, tho Pitste grand- ling a little within himſelf. As they were con- 192 ans as to the carriandera where they lodze I wasil bithe Sorrowful reflcetion, bat ze llave ſtill, tho' I had changed my maſter ; but my maydalons comforted me with the main de miss words, polling me, that I need fear not gathat I bould elteem my felf ore of the pieſt men in the world, when they were arrived ſafe in their own country, which they hoped would not be long. That I ſhould be as free as they were, and follow what employment of life Vincitationsled me to, without any reftaip whatſoever. In fine, their diſcourſe filled me with freſh amazement, and gave me at the ſame titre ort of sente dentre o ice the evec. VALSI I came to the houſe, I was ſtruck with eons at the magnificence at it, eſpecially at the host ** as it in all Grand Caico, 'tho bento cording to the cuſtom of the country It ſeems they always itaida year before they re ned into storia awe penat, and forced to coll 10 sale their baniſhment, as they called it, as eaſy as they could. I was entertained with the moſt delici cious fruits and the richeſt wines ; by which I ſaw they were not Mahometans. Not knowing what to make of them, I aſked them who they were of what country, what fed and profeſſion, and the like ; they ſmiled at my queſtions, and told me they were children of the ſun, and were cal- led Mezoranians which was as intelligible to ne as all the reſt. But, for their country, they told me I ſhould ſee it in a few months, and bid me aſk no further queſtions. Preſently my ter mar Sigrion GANDEVTIO DI Löcek. ter came in, and embracing me, once more bid me welcome.--He then addreſſed me as follows: Young man, by the laws of this country you are mine; have bought you at a very high price, but I know of no laws in the univerſe, that can make a free-born inan become llave to one of his own ſpecies. If you will voluntarily go along with us, you ſhall enjoy as much freedom as I do myſelf; You ſhall be exempt from all Larbarous laws of the bes cours whoſe brutal cuſtoms are a fhanie to the dignity elsans cature. We are bleft with the crite opunt country in the world ; walay we leave it to your choice to go along with us if you pleaſe ze wil nier, 1 kere give you your busine and reſtore to you all the remains of your effects, with what aflíſance you want, to carry you back again into your own country. Only, this I muſt tell you, if you go with us, 'tis likely you will never come back again, or perhaps defire it, Here he ſtooped, and obferved my counters ruha great deal of attention. was left his and krew not what anſwer to give him. On 2 batid se natural desire of liberty pria ed me to accept my freedom on the other, awared fortline that in a ſtrange country ſo far from home, among Turks and Iofidels. The conſiderations made me reſolve to go with him. roſe, and making Dufound rerorence, my love rather my father and deliverer, I am yours by ***** eratrunde a atam heart I reſign myſelf to your condu&, and will ow you to the end of the world. This I ſaid with So you 76 Ziſo 6 Kdventures of wild fuck erelion of ſpirits that I bellé ze Lawanto me very touk: for ombracias mein Kuidige rien citroexprefible tenderecís, ie orii vous, leid fe, for my fan i and there are your brolliers, pointing to his two young cempszico€ al: 1 suis, ct gou is, that you uve za Soon after this, he gave orders to his atten- Earls withdraty, they obeyed immediauli win a filial refpe& ; then taking me by the hand he Bode me fit don'n by him, and a las in: i was 22 Pusopean Chrißiani I told him **£, and in that belief would live and die. 011. ad hs, feming plate de cay anfari. Pe then enquired particularly into the laws of Chriſtians, and upon what principle they were sous les to all which questions, 7 este mana sita ſwers that I thought were applicable to them, and he appeared to be very much pleaſed, and told me, do but live up to your own laws and we re- quire no more of you. Here he made a little noiſe with his ſtaff, at which two of his atten. dants came in : He aſked them if my effects were come from the Pirate ? Being anſwered they hordered them to be brought examined them very nicely. There was among them ſome pi&ures of my own drawin peating watch, two compaſs boxes, one of them very curiouſly wrought in ivory and gold, which had been my great grand father's given Venerio a ſett of mathematical inſtruments draughts of ſtatuary and architecture, by the beſt maſters, with all which he Icemed extremely idi. tfter he had examined its great It deal of admiration, he ordered one of attendants WCIO im by grigl GACDENTYO DI Lucen. 32nila ni tofach in a cabinet Graf goingia cik dit come and find this yottSETORE, T only teien our effettu bere preſent, or ins right to any thing that belongs to another man, une envie usore sorer on your 113 ore fac zs Taken on mit guld, as you the eficient to carry you home, and make you live eaſy all your was a little out of countenance, aink- ing what I ſaid, in my anſwers to him witli ref- treću the Chrliakiewko wmek isterbro the ill morals of the Chriflians, had made hiin afraid to take me along with him I told him, sto w to muchas bog domar, as þegged him not only to let me go along with himi, but that he would be pleaſed to accept whatever he law of mine there before him: I do accept of it, ſays he, and take you ſolemnly into my care sier 3**ra le mung men and enjoy liberty in effe&, which I have hitherto only given you in words Here ſome of his elder compani- Srize's the young men med myſelf; wentais Wank the towa for our divda. joyed the ſame liberty thai I could have had, if I had been in Italy: All I remarked in my com- panions was an uneaſineſs they expreſſed to be fo long out of their own country ; but they com- forted themſelves with the thought Would not be Jong cannot orrit one obfervation made of theſe young men's condu& while we ſtaid in Egypt. They were all about my own age, ſtrong and vigorous, and the handſomeft race of people, perhaps, the world ever produced. We the mait voluptuous and lewd town in the were 08 Life & Adventures of the whole Eaſtern Empire ; the young womex ſeemed ready to devour us as we went along the streets. Yet I never ſaw the leaſt inclination to any thing of that nature. I imputed it at firſt to the apprehenſion of my being in their company, and a stranger ; but I ſoon found they aded by principle. As young men are apt to encourage. or rather to corrupt one another, I own I could not forboar expreſſing my wonder at ito. They feemed farprized at the thought, but the rea- fons they gave were as much out of our common way of thinking, as their behaviour. They sold me for the firſt calon, that all the women they ſaw were either married, or particular men Haughters or common. For married women, they ſaid, it was ſuch a heinous piece of injuſ- tide to violzic the inarriage-bech that every man living would look upon it as the greateſt injury done to himſelf: How could they therefore in realon do it to another? If they were daughters of particdlar men, bred up with ſo much care and plunde of their parents, what corrible diction muft it be to them, or to ourſelves to fee our daughtersor filters violated and corrupted, after all our care to the contrary, and this too, perhaps, by thoſe wo had cherithed in our own bostons If common ftrumpets, what zonal man could look on them orberwiſe than brute beaſts, to abandon themſelves to every ſtranger for hire? As for the fatal effects of their impure embracea, no perſon was ignorant of. There we fe&tions appeared ſo extraordinary in young men and even Heathens, that I never ball for get them. I FOUND lometime after our late converſation, by CADENTTO DI LUCCA 19 er tar diligence in fattling theiras irsand the chearfulneſs of their countenance, that they had thoughts of departing from Egypt ; they ſeemed to wait for nothing but orders from their gover- nor.-In the mean time there happened an acci- the same which I now relateegia me ciasto my readers Balides, that it is interwoven with ſome of the chief occuren- 163 Bedre part ofte. OG €10 am they called Popbati wa Benkes ézriter of his poeple, and in which matiche Thall Esscall hiu: locatiet, laoking at his azeri en hoofd vere frequest tourist Centation, that he had fome time before za she cottaerys and reſolved to go down to 2. Are could meet any Bentenariostics, which are bidube by in chants ſhips coming in perpetually at that ſeaſon into the port. He took only two of the young men and me with him, to ſhew me, as he ſaid, that I was entirely at my liberty, ſince I might caſily find ſome fhip or other to carry me into my own country : On the other hand, to con- vince him of the ſincerity of my intentions, generally kept in his company. While hile we were ancing in the public places to view ite Leoni ******nd curiolives, that were brought for anteracts of the work in the veicusses Bafla of Grand Cairo, with all his family, was Sa. Al andra on the ſame acent183 25 ( De fore young female fases: wine and daughter were then both along with him The wite was one of the Grand Signor's Giflers, ſeemingly about thirty, and a wonderful Sne Woman The daughter was about fixteen, of fuch exquiſite beauty and lovely features, as were FB: & 120/airson 47 ani le charme the greater Piace in the World* ܡܶܪܽcorr WHEN we perceived them the Pophar, who maturally abhorred the Turks, kept off, as if he wire issaring privately with Cogne 13 But, I being young and inconſiderate ſtood look ing, thu' at a refpe&ful diſtance, at the Balla's Trou Cider tica Dragon She had her dress She had her eyes fixed on my companions and anyſelf at the ſame time, and, as I fuppoſed, on the ſame account. have foreſeen the troubles that ſhort interview was going to coſt both the Pophar and myſelf, I ſhould have choſe to have looked on the moſt hideous monſter. obſerved that the young Hadly, with a particuler ſort of emotion, whiſper- ed ſomething to an elderly woman that attended her, and ſhe did the fame to a page, who imme. diately went to two natives of the place, whom the Pophar uſed to hire to carry his things : This was to enquire of them who we were 2.0 pested by the event, told the was a young ſlave lately bought by the Pophar, ranbile she Data ich is a wana away, and for my own part I thought no more of the matter. The next day, as the Pophar and ** wite walking in one of the publie Sardcas little elderly man like an cunuch with molt beaut The B Naot Grand Cario is one of the crear eſt pofta in the Turkiſh Empire, and the mu.& in- depeudant of any ſubject in Turkey ; it is cuftom. ary for the Sultans to give their druzbiters in mar- Tiage to ſuch perfona ; who are often difliked by the huſbands on ocount of their imperion, be bavigar. GAUDENTIo Di Lucca. beaut youth with him, having followed us to private part of the walks, came up to us, and addrefling themſelves to the Pophar, aſked him, hac would take for his young ſlave, pointing at me; becauſe the Baffa deſired to buy him. The Popbat ſeemed to be more ſurprized at this unexpeeted queſtion, than I ever obſerved hiin at any thir before, which confirmed me more and more in the opinion of the kindneſs he had for me. Asier the Pophar had recovered frozaz üris , he istu temvey isdately that Suve dere perſon to be old fes nice fince I was as free as he was. They taking this for a pretext to enhance the price, produced ſome oriental pearls, with other jewels of in menſe value, and bid him name what he would have, and it ſhould be paid immediately Ad ding, I was to be the companion of the Baila fon, where I might make my fortune forever, if I would go along with them. The Pophar rower over me Fire T beprofsted i bass They inſiſted I had been bought 28 2 Dare, bur foue me ago, Sant nor's dominions, and they would have me. Here I interpoſed and anſwered briſkly, that tho' I had Hetkem prstonen by the chance of we sariwibald part with me the price of my life. The Baſſa's ſon, for ſo he now declared himſelf to be, inſtead of being angry at my reſolute anſwer, replied with a moſt agreeable ſmile, that I ſhould be as free as he Nakuhes molt (oleme protectetur his moſt holv Alcoran, that our lives and deaths Should be inſeparable. Tho' there was ſome thing 22 Life & Adventures of thing W che molto be CVEY felt w in myſelf ; yet confidering the obli. gations I had to the Pophar, I was refolved not to go, but anſwered with a moſt reſpectful bow, that tho' I was tree by nature, I had indiſpenſi- ble obligations not to go with him, and hoped he would take it for a determinate anſwer. pro-~ nounced this with ſuch a reſolute air, as made hiin ſee there was no hopes. HETHER his defire was more enflamed by my denial, or whether they took us for perfona of greater note than we appeared to be, I can- not tell ; but I obſerved he put on a very langui- thing air, with tears ſtealing down his cheeks, which moved me to a degree I cannot expreſs. I could ſcarce ſpeak, but caſt down my cyes, and ſtood mmovcable as Itatute This ſeemed to revive his hopes ; he recovered him- felf a little, and with a trembling voice, replied, fuppoſe it be the Balla's daughter you ſaw yeſ- terday, that deſires tº have you for her attendant, what do you ſay ? I ſtarted at this, and caſting my cyes on him more attentively, I perceived his rimming in tears, with a tenderneſs, enough to pierce the hardeſt heart. I looked at the Po. phar, who I ſaw was trembling for me feared it was the daughter herſelf that aſked me the queſtion. was ſoon put out of doubt, for The finding ſhe had gone too far to go back, diſ- covered hereſelf, and ſaid I muſt go along with her, or one of us mmuſt die. and Consider my readers the perplexity was in, Mhe being a Turk and I a Chriſtian : That my death muſt certainly be the conſequence of ſuch Jig nox GAUDENTIO PILU CỰA. 23 fuch a raſh affair, were I to engage in it. That whether ſhe concealed me in her father's court, or attempted to go off with me, it was ten thou- fand to one, we ſhould both be ſacrificed Neith er could the violence of ſuch a ſudden paſſion ever be concealed from the Balla's ſpies. In word, I was reſolved not to go but how to get off was the difficulty. I ſaw the moſt beautiful creature in the world all in tears before me, after a declaration of love, that exceeded the moſt romantic tales ; youth, love and beauty, and even an iic'ination on my fide pleaded her cauſe. But at length the confideration of the endleſs miſeries I was likely to dray on the young lady, thould I comply with what ſhe de- fired, prevailed above all others. I was refol- ved to refuſe, for her fake more than my own, and was juſt going to tell her fo on my knees, When an attendant came running in halte to the other perſon, and told her the Baila was con oming y. She was roured out of her lethargy this, and her attendant immediately ſnatched her away, as the Pophar did me She jnſt cried out with a threat, think better on it, or die lo We were immediately out of ſight of one anoth- that way Propoſal After leaving her, I found thonſand rea fons for what did, more than I could think of before, and rejoiced that I had not accepted her Vaile was taken up in thinking of our late adventure, the good Pophar told me, this unfortunate affair would not end fo, bus that it might coſt us both our lives, and ſome thing elſe that was more dear to him Adding that we muſt make inmediately off ; that hav- ing 24 Life Adventures ing ſo many ſpies upon us, policy as well as e pedition muſt be uſed. So he went directly to i he port, and in the hearing of all, publicly hir- ed a fhip to go for Cyprus, and ſaid they muſt neceſſarily go off that evening. We had really done ſo, but our companions and effedts obliged us to return to Grand Cairo; but inſtead of going by fea, he called the maſter of the vellel, who was of his acquaintance and for , good round ſum, privately agreed with him to fail out of the port and leave us, while he hired a boat at the other end of the town ; and went that night di- Kem Desta As ſoon 23 we arrived at that city, we er og before the Badwould there. They told us in about a fortnight; this gave the Pophor time to pay off his houſe, pack up his effects, and get all things ready for his great voyage ; but ſtill with greater apprehen- don in his looks than ever remarked in him However, he told us, he hoped the affair would end happily ; in five days time all things were in readineſs for our departure. We ſet out a little before ſun-ſet, as it is cuſtomary thoſe countries, and marched on but a ſlow pace until One dilation from the city, in birda: Q. Bu a Siipician of lgbty After travel as the autop by the side on the Pophar leading the van, and the reſt follow- ing in pretty long ftring after him, we met five or fix men coming down the river-side of horſeback, who by their fine turbans and habits, lhewed they were pages, or attendanis of ſome great perſon. The Pophar turned off from the siver, as if it were to give them way: They pailed Signor GAUDINTIO DI Lueca. 25. palled on very civilly without taking any further notice. I was the hindmoſt but one of our train, having ſtaid to give our dromedaries ſome water, Soon after theſe came two ladies riding on little Arabian Jennets, with prodigious rich furniture, by which I gueſſed them to be perfons of quality, and others gone before their attendants, They were not quite over againſt where I was, when the younger of the two ladies Jennet began to ſnort and ſtart at our dromedaries, and became ſo unruly, that I apprehended the lady could ſcarce lit on him. At that inſtant, one of the led dromedaries coming pretty near, that, and the ruitling of its loading, ſo frighted the Jennet, that he gave a bound all on a ſudden, and being on the inſide of us towards the edge of the bank, where not being able to ſtop his career, he flew dire&ly off the precipice into the river, with the lady on him ; but the violence of the leap, threw her off two or three yards into the water. Ir happened very luckily that there was a lit- tle iſland juſt by where ſhe fell, and her cloatha keeping her up for ſome minutes, the ſtream carried her againſt ſome ſtakes that ſtood juſt above the water, that catched her cloaths, and held her there. The thricks of the other lady brought the nigheſt attendants up to us ; but theſe fearful wretches durft not venture into the river to her affitance. I juinped off my drome- dary with indignation, and throwing off my looſe garınent and ſandals, ſwarn to her, and with mich difficulty getting hold of her hand, and looling her garnents from the fakes, I made a that to draw her acroſs the ſtream, ilul branglit berand. She was quite fenftlefs for fore E. time I held own her bond, who I had not get looked at, to make her diſgorge the water increas {wallowed, but I was ſoon Arnek wie #vable ſurprize, when I looked at be: fed face, to find it was the Dalla's danghter, and to her in that place, whom I thought I had left Alexandria, a fome time, the came to lerier, ad leoking ſteadily on me a good while, her ſenſes not being entirely secovered : Artaff the crisi u O Mxbomet, mum I owe my life to the Man R and Painted away. The other bud Wha te lier confiderit, vith a great deal of Brias brought her to herſelf again we raiſed het up, and cedeavoured to comfort her as well as we veuk. No lars be, threw me into the river more · Jet me not be obliged to Barbari- An der wbom I bave done too much already. I told her in the moſt reſpeaful terms I could think of trat Providerce had ordered it to the $#ishr make lome recompence for the refer- ved ebligations the had laid on me, that that I had too great value for her merit, ever to make her miftrable, ly loving a llave fuche I was, renget, Chriſian, and who had in Siem RSS ſhort recollection anſwered, whether you are Cave, an infidel, ar whatever you ale af are one of the moſt gençrous men in the world. I Corpofe ycer obligations are ca areti Come more happy woman than myſelf bue ſince I owe my life to you, I am reſolved not make you unhappy, any more than you do ze i got only pardon you, but am coaxinsei mir pretenſions are both unjuſt, and againſt my own honour She ſaid this with an air becoming her quality. She was much more at caſe, when allured her was engaged to no woman in the world, but that her memory thoui me ever dear to int, and imprinted in rey heart in hreats. Here ten or a dozca and came upon us full ſpeed from the town, and ſeeing the Pophar and his companians, they cried out ſtop villains, we arreſt you in the name of the Balla. At this we ſtarted up to ſee what was the matter, when the lady who knew them. bid ine not be afraid ; that theſe were men ihe hed ordered to purfu mc, when the left Aid dria. That hearing we were iled oſt by ſea, the prétended bckneſs, and aſked care of me: to return to Cairo, there to bemoan her misfor- tune with her confident; and was in thoſe me- lancholy ſentiments, when the late accident hap- pened to her. That ſhe ſuppoſed theſe men had diſcovered the trick we had played them in not cing lea, and on better information bad 941- Boed gelis taya w So the diſmille tein Tsall this while in one of the reaicftatea nies that can be expreſſed, both for fear of my o'wn reſolutions and her So I begged her to re tire, left her wet cloaths ſhould endanger hes health. I ſhould not have been able to pro- nounce theſe words, if the Pophar had not caft look at me, which pierced me thro', and inade me ſee the danger I was in by my delay. Her refolutions now ſeemed to be ſtronger than mine. Sz: pulled offa rich jewel which I now wear on my ingere, irad juft ſzid, with tears trilling dowe ing: beau vitci cheeks: take this, and dicu i Sheraet plented her coapanion away, and force looked at me more. $2007 amazed, almoſt witheut life or oatien la ine, and cannot tell how long I might Gave continued fo, if the Pophar had not com: 2m congratulated me for my deliverance. told him, I did not know what he meant by de- eraace, and that I was afraid he would gert hie buying of me, if I procured him any mail ilan ebeke, says he, 1 thalt sejuice ; ne y can be gained without ſome fals. He then commanded us to make the beſt of our A2*4* i • Pophar war unealy to be out si fir res not in aux great bafte in the rain, the preſent time for his great voyage not being yet come. There appeared a gaiety in his coun- efiance, tirsi kened to promile 135" a poolreis suurrey. Por my own part, thio' I was giad had eſcaped my dangerous enchantreſs, there was a heavineſs lay on my ſpirits, which I could give toiteascara; but the iboughts of fuch an anda Freien soyage, and variety of plaves; distance it by degrees. Wı were eleven in number, five elderly men, and five young ones, myſelf being a ſuper-rume- *** per far . We were all moarted time of edaries, which live a long time without drink ing, and are made uſe of to travel ører barre Bands - GardenTIO Di Lucca. Bisnode mon that 20count. We had five ſpare ones to carry proviſions, or to changé an caiz tog ont of the other thould tire on our journey We wens up the Nile, leaving it on sur lefi bard xil the way, feering our couri diren arabe upner Egypt. The river Nile divider La ja two partå length-ways , deſcending from Aby Binia with ſuch an imamente course, bez rho Les uplatis iaid it bach sa head, # running obro'i. hither Ethiopia, pours down upon Egypt as the Pine does thro the Spania Netlerinde ing it one of the richell countries in the uni- We viſited all the towns on that farnous river upwards, 'under pretence of merchangizio, bathe trac reaſon of our relay wis, becauſe it Separar a critical time for his great. Kaya na voyage was not yet come. Na looked at Ephemeris and notes almoſt every hour, the reſt of them attend. ing his sod in the moſt minute circumitance: we approached the upper parts of Egypt, a nigh as I could gueſs, over againſt the deſarts of Barca, they began to bay proviſions proper for their purpoſe icularly rice, dryed fruits, and fort that ſerved us for bread. provifiors at one dhipicion dle coaft of the vaſt defart of Barca, we met with a delicate clear rivilut, breaking out of a riling part of the ſands, and making towards the Nile Here w и alighted, drank out and gave our drome daries to drink as much they would Thon e filled all our ved purpoſe for place, to riage, Life & Adventuru oja rings, itbok in a much greater proportion of water than ne had done proviſions, -astra loza forget to baention, that at leveral places as we Bailed, tlicy difmounted and killed the ground Fie 2 yery ſupsrétitious devotion, and traged loint of the duft, which they put into goldes urns, which they had brought on purpoſe, fet- ring me do what I pleaſed all the while fort of devotion I gueſſed then, but found to be ma alter'yards, was the chief occaſion of Coming into thoſe parts; tho' carried an under the presence of merchandizing. They did this La ma in rhia blace and when all wate rende the role Idoking on his papers and asedie, which I was införinted was as much as to ſay, Now children for our lives, and immediately as he had ſkocred South all aigua before, he turned ſhort on his right hand due acroſs the vaſt defart of Barca, as fall his dromedary could well go ; nothing but fanda By zesérted before us, and in a few hours ** dimost oat of danger of any oros stampe- ing to follow us. Bursa bus embarked, if I may co on this ezan of (and, a thouſand perplerinhoughis came into my mind, which I did not refic& on Doporcitold me in the midt of inhugi lasik elarts of Africa, where whole ardica often faſt as Antient hiſtories gives us ſeveral inſtances great nunber of perſons, and even whale an mies, who have been loſt in the ſands of Africa. Herodotus in Thalia, faya, that Cambyſes the ſon of Cyrus the great, in his expedition againſt ik as brought to ſuch freights in thoſe van dcfaris, that were forced to cai every tente thiopeans, ficar OAVDIKTIG Dr Loela efter verded. The further we advanced she KECIS ONen danger encreaſed. I wa viti mere ** 10 were entire frangers lo me. Who Who I was perfuaded mere Heathens and I delziers: For beſide their ſuperſtitious kiſling the earth in ſev- erzl palaces, Teblerred they looked my towards the fa, and Tetined to dreſs their orifing is that Fancia a thousin it was polhble, that I was deſtined for a human facrifice, to ſome Heathen God in the midſt of that vaſt defert. But not ſeeing any arms they had, either offen- five or defenſive, except their ſhort goads to prick on their dromedaries, I was a little caſy had provided myſelf privately, with two pocket piftols, and was refolved to defend myſelf to the Laplig. Ås far ile dificulty of paling the Busto, fcded that their own lives were se much in danger as mine that they muſt have fone unknown ways of paſſing them over, oth- ſuch crideat danger. I Sveup lave mentioned, that we front Hele Store {aa-ſet to avoid the heart, oth, 108i, the moon was about the first quarter and carried on the light till nigh dawn of day ; the glittering of the ſand or rather pebbly gravel, de sabliere were abuedance of threinz derde like jewels or chryſtial, increaſed the light, that a cok fee te leer our courle by ageprezle very well. We traveled at i vat. vaſt rate, this drocedarios an before they could get back again Tbe et erwy which he ſent to deftroy the temple of Japi Ler We entirely overwhelmed andler 3 Lili & Adventures dromedaries pace was nearly running : I verrily believe, from ſix o'clock in the evening till aboue ter the next dar, we ran almont 120 Palan miles : We had ncither ſtop or let, but ſteered tercoirfe is a direa lime, like a ſhip wide 6 Pacheats were mor righ ſo inſufferable and ex. reded, for tho welaw nothing we could call Pesquetain in thoſe immenſe bares, yet the funds, or at leaſt the way we ſteered was very high ground : That as ſoon as we were out of the Death of the inbabitable cuprice, we had a perpetual Breeze blowing full in our faces, yet that it Icarce raiſed aby dnf : post. ly becauſe, where we paſled, the ſands were not of that ſmall duſty kind, as in ſome parts of Ar- delirini Defore if, but of a more cravy kind : and niet ero manly from an imperceptible dew, Sve those to thick as a fog, mollided the ſurface of the ground pretty much. ATLI after ning next morning * we came to fonja clumps of ihrul by treet, with a builo muis pa the ground ialtead of graſs: Here the hajd fel, and the licats became very video. The Popbar ordered us to alight and pitch our toscles both ontoes and disedares from the heats. Their tenis were made of the dich I ever faw, Pror light and portable, vei capable of keeping out both rain and ſun. Fiere were retsed anstelves and beste lirdle after fix when we once more ſet out, and Wewe ** for force dirig's and distais ghts without any conſiderable me GAUDENY Lucem 33 ederale accident, only I obferved the series, Icerred to riſe infenfibly higher, and the meters saly ſtronger, but the air itſelf much cooker, was not About ten the third day we ſaw ſome more eines al trees on the right hand, wiaet ford ener and thicker than the fośmer; 23? fole oksale yale wasitor far diftant, és The Pophar ordered us to turn that way, which was the only turning out of our rout we had met yet. By the chearfulneſs of their eruzionacces, I expected this was part ar indir country ; but was very much miſtaken, we had ser note diſtant and difficult tressi, ibat what we had before pailed. kome zdvanced, we found it to open sind deſcend gradually ; till we ſaw a moſt delightful vale, fu!I of palms, dates, and other fruit-trees, entirely unknown in thoſe parts, with ſuch beautiful ſmell from the ordoriferous fhrubs, as filed the whole air with perfumes ; We rodo into the thickeſt of it as faſt as we could to enjoy dhe ning ihaile. We caled our dromeda and took the firſt care of them theſe all Gu: Safeties depended. After we in reteſha e surfels fornient, accordireg puthe nature of the court try will allow ; with pleaſure Houſes and pavili- ore, built at skie diſtances round the boraca, #maripoſed ab illande, come natural and for erulicia; where, ut proper fexleos you may after the Cenus of boats skimming backwards and forwards, both for the pleaſure and profit of fiſh- ng; of which there is an inexhauftitie fiore, TELLINC thosby eaſy joarteys; trying or elvancins in otr progreſs as we thiconit; admired with infinite delight, the effeas of in duſtry and liberty, in a country where nature and Hemed eye wühekh deler ? produótions. Another fatisfa&ion I delicata no hole videations, wich was the misure ty of being made acquainted with their manner abundantly ſupplied.. Å: I be young people will the govern 02 or all who are able or willing to go ; at partic- ular ſeaſons, diſperſe themſelves all over the kingdom for the purpoſe of hunting, which they call grand hunts. They chuſe fume open vaie, or valt lawn, as far in the wild foreſts as they can, where they pitch their tents, and make their then they ſend out their moſt cou. rageous young men, in ſmall bodies of ren, in company well armed, each with his fpear and faſee (lung on his back. Theſe go quietly thro' the wildelt parts of the foreft at proper diſtan- ces Signor GAUDENTIO DI Lueca. en faas to meet at fuck a place, wlick to to view she ground, and had a place propur tonele seraud and pitch their totis Taey wil sy feveral days wir about but are to make no noiſe, nor kill any wild beaſt, unleſs atiаcked, or come upon hi n in bis couch at unawajes, that they may nor diſturb the reſt. Was bravas made their, ceport, txeral chit- ſands of them ſurround a conſiderable part of the foreft, ſtanding cloſe together for their mutual Bith some times and raisiksy and stint gacji pents, a frighten the game towards eter, ibat none may eſcape the circle. breaſt, Wise, adyacente encouraging their dogs, founding their horns beating their ims and ratiles, that the moſt ancorde Weerare al roazed, and our before then teards the cerer, by this moes toys have driven together fevral undreds of wild beails, lions, <, wild boars, foxes, hares, in fine, all ſorts of beaſts as were within that circle. It is inuit terris ſee ſuch a heap of cruel beaſts gathered together, grinring and roaring at one another in moſt frigbitul manner; but the wild boar is the matter of all Whoever comes near him in that rage, even the largeſt lyon, he ſtrikes at him with his tuiks and makes him keep his diſtance Hrn they are brought within a proper com país, they pitch their toils round them, and in- cloſe then in, crory man joining cloſe to neighbours Life & Adventures neighbour, holding out their ſpears to keep them o. L any buall Thould endeau pe album ini eſcape which ſome will do now and then, partic- clariy ibo will bears, will run a-hodissapit the points of the ſpears, and make very material ſport. They told me that once a prodigious wild * broke thro three üles of (0285 overtures Bhaa zarad natiei a rip that for share all ginzamol in a body laat way, that thok mer forced to open and for then take abeis caput: 4€ ich all tacir about Tun et now they have men ready with their face fees to drop any beaſt that ſhould offer to turn head. When they are encloſed, there is moft terrible work, the greateſt beaſts fighting and Ering one another for rage and pignons than store fearful cuania inco the twils i elzam. ex men with this filees stoor she is ital, as they can. when they liten bewu boar, three or four aim at him at a timue, de la ere lae hiessut dirable bain, B. He te runs full at the lalk that wounded him, with ſuch fury, that ſometimes lie will break thro' the getuits's but bis sortizanians all join the ſpears to keep bim When they have dropped all that are dangerous, and as much as they have mind, they open their toils and diſpatch all that nave known save a handred of beults of all ſorts killed in one da Then they carry off their ſpoil to rendezvou and rejoicing, and ſending preſents as before. There is oftentimes very great anger, w they go thro' the woods to ra. diſcon fealling 117 Signor GAUDENT10 Di Lucca. fulats ocufe, going in fmall compaates, fome nastore buait or other will anac& ibera Baile every man, as I ſaid, has a fufee flang at his back, mnd die Feat in his hand for his dctenot. Brie once in one of their parties, e inessin led on a prodigious wild boar, as he was lying in his haunt juſt in our way ; fome of us were palm fing by him, but I thought fuch a noble prey was der to the lott, to tre lurtown ſo we ſurrounded him, and drew with moore cu.34* and can man prudence one of my companions, who was my intimate friend, being one of thoſe who con- do se sver the defarrs, came ip came to him than the reſt, with his fpear in his bands, ftretched out ready to receive him, in cafe he ſhould come at him at which the beaſt ſtarted up of a ſudden with a noife that would have ter- rified the ftouteft hero, and made at him with ſuch a fury that we gave him up for loft. We lobis ground with lö mach can and held his ſpear fo firm and exact, that he run ich wollte month of the best atteinte the inner part of his throat the gate and the fhook his head in a terrible manner, endeavour- ing to get the ſpear out, which if he had done, all: the world could not have faved the young man. I ſeeing the danger, ran in with the fame precipi- tancy, and clapping the muzzle of my fuſee al- molt clole to his ſide a little behind his fore ſhoul- der, thot him quite through the body ; lo he: 23.00 drad betore us. Tust as we thought the danger w over U Love 2*8 Life & Adventures ſow hearing his cry came ruſhing on us, and that fo ſuddenly, that before I could turn myſelf with SAS Scaricarme behand with puſhing on at the ſame time, that ſhe knocked me diskren with berirapetuolity, and the priser kr. ing a little ſhelving, came tumbling quite over 3,3-lid was un pecalion of laving my life, INAE foarte port or my feet and an en ons only listed of the foil but it is. tho' my companions came into my aſſiſtance, the puſhed at me a ſecond time with equal fury. held my ſpear with all my might, thinking to take her in the mouth, but milling my aim, took her juſt in the throat, where the bead and join and thrift ray peas with feir jo sawa career asoting nges tak muna thro’ her windpipe, Ariking the ſpear in her neck 32 Is a heas the dean ecosi cate get it out again She tolt and reeled her head a good while before ihe fell ; but her windpipe be- ing cut and bleeding inwardly ſhe was ſoon choak. ed: my companions had hit her with their ſpears, on the lides and back, but her hide and briſtles were ſo thick and hard, they did her very little damage. They all applauded God toy contatos courage and vi&ory as if I had killed both the ſwine. But I, as jns- tice required, gave the greateſt part of the glory, for the death of the boar, to the courageous dex- terity of the young man, who had expofed him- ſelf ſo generouſly, and hit him so exaa in throat, Signir GAUDENTIỎ Dr Lucca. ITO is left the carballis there, roi taipgašie endemain had the honor 11 sat boat's head on the point of my ſpear, which I would have given to the young man, but he re- fuſed it, ſaying, I had not only killed it, but ſaved his life. The honour being judged to me by every one, I ſent it away as a preſent to the lite Talas a this allowed by firefonto tho'as yet I never durit make una ( declarations of love : the accepted of it, but added, ſhe hoped I we make go more ſuch preſence in interfell any further any to TEXDL now enter into a part of my Kie, ca in fome doubts, w to lay before my readers, or not ; I mean the hopes and fears, the joys and anxieties of a young man in love, with no loſs a perſon than the daugh- ter of the regent of this valt empire. The firſt time I ſaw the incomparable Highena, tho'ſtie vatan i en bak ten years old, I was tolalu in te Lect. 20 where toid me IT as live years after my arrival, before dared to let her ſee the leaf immering of ro mark . of any engagement, aſked her ir a familiar way if her eyes had made no conqulis ; fhre Bloihed and ſaid the hoped not. lo as a friend, that I was older than their cut 178 *cared to allow young men to live fingle, and with (mile afkod me if the charms of 1? augh- ger of Grand Cairo kad eragit ideas of love told him there were objects enangh in Mezorania to make me forget" ar bad feen before. ine ar TAS 120 Life & Adventures 1 was juft came back from one of our 5. Päriase lihen I was Itruck with site moit divery fenſe of grief Fever felt in my . 1. had kaya oblerved before, that I liptent beror ons any ſign of engagement bur then I found the cara zied a zen in her bolun ; I fell ill immcdiatci dipon it, which ſhe perceiving, came tº ſee sin ir kiteby, as the uſed to be before, teri: 2 her eyes upon me to ſee what effect is would have Secing her continue wishout any marks of ezt Daycarent. I recovered and made bold teteh hier LOS day, that I could not but pity the miſeralle perſon, whoever he was, who had loft she place Ia ber bolom, he had before the ſaid unben- cerredly, that both the wearing and taking away the fit wer from her bofom, was done out of kind. meſs to the perſon. I was then lo taken up wiek: contrary thoughts, that I did not perceive ile micant forry whether the was the object of my shou a his, or no.. FINDING (he carried no more marks of angement I was reſolved to try ny fortune for life por death, the firft opportunity, which offered in ſelf not long after. To dwell too long upon ? courthip, would be unintereſting to steal liestefore I dhall omit mentioning leveral . cussianceswhich occurred in the colife it! ili was married, which was foon after the srentures of love were made. We lived here *10cnen for ſeveral years, in which rele icted fuliena brought into tive en beautiful children. Our happineſs teemed 10 be Vscousiled, when death, de soup world my divide in divine children Sher GAUDENTIO di Luces ** ckneroklin this courſe of lix dars! Natchate CAR prís, non ten deferibe mv. Tisting withed for death to call me from the carth, but the ſupreme governor of the univerſe thought fit T, the Pophar came to me one day,and ſaid, "Son, at the expiration of my regency, which will be in about one year, I intend to take a tour to Eu- rope, and thall be happy to have you accompany me there ;-lay, will you conſent najtales confideration, I agreed 19 14 After poſal The time foon drew nigh, when we were to undertake e our journey for Grand Cairo, where I was in hopes of ſeeing my native country once We provided a good quantity of jewels, ex préfent expencerat Grand Cairo and color where, and future exigencies. The day after niore, Pin monnie dromedaries Not to mention the cereaten nokiaglezre, we were conducted in manauha. full manner over the bridge, and launched once more over the ocean of the fands and deſarts which were before us. We arrived at Grand Cairo at the uſual period of time, without any particular diſaſter ; after a few days tarrying in this city, the Popliar and myſelf began to think of our journey into Italy; we had agreed witla Monſieur Godart, commander of a French thip, I 22 On our neury 1.5 to Venice, on bord at whiců, ve fet e Candybere M Godart was to touch, 166 4 lass di Semakin A. D. 1712. Or voyage the Pophar fell fo dangerouſly ill, that e ve couli, Cearce get hiun to Ces Seard me by the knowledge be bad of himself and nature, that his time was come. We put it at the firſt creek, wbote ile and mire dole retrelhed him but it was a fallacies Cris. farin a few days all of 116 faw baina yake die skil tus connage bočodrag to pre SenS 9313 14 bek of men, si a deve had 10 Expire, before M. Goslar could make an end of his concerns. I was walk ing in a melancholy,polurc one day alexigile lom iberty and rediecting on the adventures of my paid life, occafioned by thoſe very waters whereon was looking, wlien I came or rather my teet car- Dee age 103 a fanging rock, on the title iſland, juſt on the edge of the ſea, and where tiese was so room enough vor irryg or sene? 360 Duro privately under covert, vory dodir is diened; where going to a corn, and indulge my melancholy thoughts, eſpied a Turk and i wo women, as if concealed under the introdes not allurinne rock me turn thon back again but the elder of the two women, who was miſtrels of the other, ſee in by my dreſs, that I was a ſtranger and christian (being now in that habit,) came run- ning to and selling on her knces, laid hold of mine, and bergi d me to la on a diftref viện GABON TO DictA 123 Wotan, who retid veel kaichored by one of the most human hair ushing frasena nikote yioksce hid themſelves in that place, in expe&tation of hstag allurro convey themaff, I linel es un, and thought I ſaw ſomething in that face, I had tea before, tho' much altered by years ud troubies. She did the farne by one, and it ichiga oriefort, OrTeavensit cannot be the size 1 hope ! I remembered confuſedly ſomething of the Voice, 23 sell as the face and iron or sloniiheacht found it wasglie Conduta 1 laut laverting the fram the Pirate Hanjara . Oh! fers live, I have juſt time enough to tell ye, that we expect to be purſued by that inhuman wreich, Unless you can find a boat to carry tis off S105 cruelty never ſtayed to conſider conſequences, birt sterea precipirately that I would do tunel and fo ran back to the fhip as faſt as I could, and with the help of the firſt man brought the boat that the rock. I was juil gutting out la vakë loi chat, when we heard thate nico 0651 అప్పులు కు Tuſhing in behind us, and one of them cried, hold, at that wicked woman thall not eſcabe ich To stes a pifiol, which miting the laby.hu man atiending her, into the belly, ſo thar he fell down preſently, tho' not quite dead. I had Pejovident my felt with a Turkich ley outlast one caſe of piſtols, under my ſaſh for my defence on ſhipboard; I ſaw there was no time to deliberate, fo I fired dire&tly at them, for they were three, and had the good luck to drop one of them. Burs Hapets 324 Life- & Adventures of Ffamets as I found afterwards minding nothing but his revenge on the woman fired again, and milling the lady a ſecond time, ſhot her maid thro' the aim, and was drawing his ſcymitar to cleave her down, when I lept in between the lady, but ſhooting with too much precipitancy, the bullets: paffed under his arm, and lodged in the body of his ſecond he ſtarted back at the fire ſo near him, which gave me time to draw my ſcymitar.. Being now upon equal terms, lie retired iwo or three paces, and cried, who art thou, that ven- tureft thy life ſo boldly for this wicked woman? I knew his voice perfeâly well, neither was he ſo much altered as the lady. I am the man, ſaid I, whoſe life thou wouldſt have taken, but this lady ſaved it, whoſe cauſe I thall now revenge as well as my own, and my dear brother's. We made no more words but fell to it with our ſeymitars, with all our might ; he was a brave Itout man, and let me ſee I ſhould have work enough to hew him down. After ſeveral attacks,, he gave me a conſiderable wound on my arms and I cut him 2-croſs the cheek a pretty large gaſh, but not to endanger his life ; at length the juflice of my caule would have it, that firiking off his turbanı at one ſtroke, and with another fol. ling on his bare head, I cut him quite into the brain, that fome of them ſpurted on my ſcypji tar. He fell down, as I thought, quite dead, but after ſome time lio gave a groan, and tnutiered theſe words, “ Mahomet, thou art juſt, I killed this wonau's huſband, and ſhe has been the ec- caſion of my death ;" with theſe words he gave up the gholte. By this time the lady's attendant ter fonterno to line Loceae , 125 ** es fa. I look the lady and ter waan without ſtaying for fear of further difficulties and hemsinsthe boy conducted in Thip. Mapioen Godart was extrelnéði rreebie at tseva cratieptyfaving we should have a iſland upon us, and made great difficulty to re- 140 galou una mare abrandart recornpence for kizof- tas ipfostrebind. We got him to take bezin sud hoilt ſail for Venice as faſt as we could. Hugriunde Venige willout any conamaria te asth of Deci D. 9 happened to be the carnival-time, during oar ſtay en rotzangers of ile hrát sanse sa tinis I put on my Mezoranian habit,, indled wiby fatigo, at the Milete on my head, adorned with-feveral jewels of very great value, which I believe was the moſt re- markable and magnificent drefs of any there. went instalgned being atlused: my facesse: usaz unkown is alle hat paſt of the wenis Berkon: Seresi iere upon ge.. TRT RAL of phe maſqueraders cate 17 te them interested, particularly the kedict, Tis ſpoke to me in ſeveral languages, as Latin, rench, Italian, Spaniſlı, High- Dutch, &c. anſwered them all in the Mezoranian language, which ſeemed as ſtrange to them, as my dreſs. Some of them fpoko to me in the Turkiſh and Perſian language, in Lingua Franca, and ſome in an Indian language I really did not underſtand. anſwered them fill in the Mezoranian, of which no body knew one word, Two 226 Two ladies particularly, very richly dreſſed, followed the wherever I weit Obe price at 23 the richett drels of all the company the other was a Busogna lady. Nowitbitand in their diligence, I got away unknown at that tiae. 15 next time t came, 1 appeared in the anc diela, but with riuber jewels, I had to cues upon me then, than 1 had before. The Courte- lan rurfæed me again in a different, 1*** tiosez dres bau the former. At lengu the qit më soryielf, äid prilling of her Mufque fewed acc a wonderful pretty face, only there was too fierce an awurance in it. She cried in Mialian O Siç nor you are not ſo ignorant of our language, as you would ſeem to be! You can ſpeak Italian and French too ; tho' we do not know who you ase, we save learnt you are a diad oi boncus 16 you would not underſtand our words, you may underſtand a face, which very great perſonages have been glad to look at, and with that put on pod of the moſt enſnaring aims I ever ſaw. I was about to anfwer her, when it is die Jedly came up, and polling off her mak alfw, isid alitokahs latac things, but with a modelos fite. 484 teki tbcin, that it had been much fase, for me is I had kept winyleli fbill unknown to be feen ſuch dangerous charms. I pronounced theſe words with an air, that ſhewed, that I was more pleaſed with the modeſty of the laſt lady, than the commanding aſſurance of the firſt, THE Sigma GeodevTIO DE Luces . 129 Two Costanytho' a little nettled at the pre- rur: Die tikraght gave the other, but otrs scious air an lunt, une had been intresse character, and thould be glad to lear more of it horieteibar hot name was Favill, and the - red pa fucha froer, where I thuad Band has tacoas seotarkable enougls, The Bolognisa laty, was then at Venice on account of the death of her To, creof he Senators, wo halaften his effe&ts, ſaid inodeſtly, if I ſhould favour her wilt, 20 lasinad been informed that a learned man, and a virtuoſo, ſhe being incli- ned that way herſelf, ſhe ſhould be glad of an 1991's converſation with me oi that ſubject, el sing me ber name and where the lived ; adding fi vous informa muid of ber chara&eresad not be aſhamed of her acquaintaoce ; nor I hope of miun, melanzi, lays the others , in 31. Wai been reflectori on bay that word. 1 is going to reply to the ladieg, wlieni cente pany came up, and broke of the digerte. I wess related to be either of them, an wel po ng anute toitte aifeinbly, tho' almost snuroiu 30 l.(rw Soth of them afterwarris. Inquireri Ha parte character, tho' fcarde doubert it o war few and heard, and was hier that ſhe was an imperious Courteſan, who had endlaved ſeveral perſons of tie firſt rank, of dif- ferent siste and enriched herfelt by their ſpoils ; fo I was fully reſolved not to ſee her ; bar as M. Godart and myſelf were walking fee the town, he brought me either induítiouſly or accidentally, by her door; fi: was tring - ilic a 23 Life & Adventures of the window of one of the moſt magni@cent pala- ces in Venice, fuchſpoils had the reaped from her bewitched lovers. As ſoon as ſhe ſaw me, ſhe ſent a ſervant to tell me, that that lady would ſpeak with me : I made foine difficulty, but M. Godart ſaid, that a man of honour could not refuſe ſuch a favour as that ; ſo I went in, and M. Godart with me. The lady received me with a moft charming a greeable air, much diiferent from her former al- furance, and conducted me into a moft magnifi- cent apartment, leaving M. Godart entertaining a very pretty lady, her companion. Not to de- tain my readers too long, when I would not un- derſtand what the meant, ſhe offered me marri- age, with the inheritance of all her effeas: I was put to the laſt nonplus. I aſſured her with a mit profound bow, that tho I was not worthy of ſuch a happineſs, I had an indiſpenſable ob- Jigation on me never to marry; all the blood ſhe had came in her face. I do not know what the was going to do, but finding her in that diſorder, I made another bow, ſaying, I would conſider further on her propoſal and walked directly out of the houſe, deſigning to leave Venice as ſoon as ever my affairs would give me leave. Some time after, M. Godart, came to me, and faid, that he was forced to do as I did, that the lady was in ſuch an outrageous fury he did not know what might be the conſequence. Three nigats after, as M. Godart, and a young kinſ- man of his, and myſelf, were going towards the Riaito, in the duſk of the evening, four muffians attacked Ener GsustNTIO OP'Lucca: 129 atrácked us unawares ; tku of them ſet upon me, The rstliek two sitauked M Godattaa 17 kas man; the poor young gentleman was rur thro' the body the firkt puth , fmade thikt da Jilable one of my adverſaries, but in doing it, the other run me thro' the ribs, but the ſword took only part of my body, and milling my entralle, the poim weht out on the fide of my baoks M. Go. dar dadd one of his men and wond the other; but the ruſſians ſeeing us now two 17 iwer thought fit to march off as well as could I was forced to be led to my céging, subting buy the wound was mortal, tha' it pns- ki bo to be to, the made a great wolle about town We very rationally ſuppofed it was Favilla who had ſet the aſſaſſins on, but we knew has to be le powerful with the Senators, thiet abre sa ho hopes of justice. While I was rew evrering, I vras rold there was a lady will comme Waling womenty defired to ſee me on Tam tata- et boine, if it would not be inom oloas to Stor Nt. Godart woull nor fir freut my bed liér, fer fear of accidents) Who toalu buas pe She Pavilla, who came an in moarning for my slepotong protended ro be a d pretended to be a dying man, and took the liberty of telling her of her way of liv- ing,to what a diſmal paſs her paſſions had brought in fine 1 faid lo much, and becyed beray o dirar. to conſider har lite grazie ing into a flood of rears, the promiſed me if I died, ſhe would become a penitent Nan. I efe fečted ſo much by letters afterwards, that tho' vecovered ſhe performed her her promits promiſe. 130 Lif Adventures sols en leat prelegts to pe frequcntia, the richeſt cordials that could be got in Venice. Finding my illneſs continued lorger than was expected, ſhe fent me word, that tho'it was not en for her to make the art vi, D: Bez heard fo much of my adventures, as very much τον to have been compare svetry was capable of concerfarion without doing me any prejudice. I had inform ATT Feif af bengharader from Versand e perde fo that I was very curious to converſe with a per- Se finiban pas able talents as I heard the miſtreſs of.. o ſum up all, in ſhort, ſhe came leveral times to ſee me, inſomuch that we contracted the moſt virtuous friendſhip, by our mutual inclination to learning, and the ſympathy of our tempers, as Va pahed between two perfons of aixent en It was on her account I reſolved to ſettle at Bologna ; and having fome knowledge in nature and phyſic, I took on me that chara&er, to be the ofiner in her company without ſcandal ; neith- er of us are inclined to marriage, ime is one of the moſt virtuous women living, and myſelf be- ing advanced in years, we are reſolved to live this manner during the remainder of our livesa. FIN Otrd Odense 07 es