South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
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Besides, Even If You Would Leave Me, I Hope You Will Not Desert This My Companion Who Is Of The Same Faith With Yourselves." Then The Christians Asked How I, Being A Persian, Happened To Be Of The Christian Faith?

To which my companion answered that I was no Persian, but had been bought at Jerusalem.

On hearing the holy name of Jerusalem pronounced, the Christians lifted up their hands and eyes to heaven, and prostrating themselves thrice kissed the ground; then rising up, they asked what age I was of when brought from Jerusalem. Being told that I was then fifteen years of age, they said I might well remember my country; to which my companion answered that I did so assuredly, and had often given him much pleasure by the things I had told him concerning it. Then the merchants said that although they had long desired to return into their own country, which was far from thence, they would still bear us company to those places to which we proposed going. Preparing ourselves therefore for a voyage, we took shipping and in fifteen days we came to the island of _Bandan_ or Banda, whence nutmegs and mace are procured.

In this voyage to the isle of Banda, we passed about twenty islands, some of them inhabited and some desert. This island of Banda is very low, savage, and barren, being about 100 miles in circuit. It has neither king nor governor, but is inhabited by a savage and brutal people, who live without law, order, or government, dwelling in low huts scarcely rising above the ground, and having a scanty shirt for their whole clothing.

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