III. _RELATION DU VOYAGE de l' Evesque de Beryte, par la Turquie, la Perse, les Indes, _&c._ jusques au Royaume de Siam, & autres lieux_; par M. _de Bourges, Prestre_ &c. This Author imploying his Pen chiefly, according to his design, to give an Accompt of the Success, the Undertakers of this Voyage had, in propagating the Christian Faith in the remoter parts of the World, and relating on that occasion, What number of Churches they have founded in _Cochin_, _China_, and the Kingdom of _Tonquin_, (in which latter alone he affirms, that there are more than three hundred thousand Christians;) being I say principally intent upon that Subject, he seems not to have made many Philosophical observations in those places. Mean while he does good service to those that have occasion to travel into the _East-Indies_ mostly by Land, by describing the passage, they took thither; which was, That they embarqued at _Marseilles_, in _September_, the most convenient and favourable season for that Voyage; whence Ships do ordinarily pass every Month from _Syria_, reckoning one Month for the time of Sayling, to _Alexandretta_. Thence to _Aleppo_, counting one Month more for the Stay, to be made there to meet the _Caravane_ for _Babylon_, and six weeks more for the march from _Aleppo_ to _Babylon_, where a fortnight will pass before an opportunity happen to embarque upon the _Tyger_ for _Balsora_; which Journey will require a fortnight more: And about this time it will be about the end of _January_. Thence is always conveniency to pass from _Congo_, 4 days Journey from _Comoron_ or _Gombroun_, to which latter part there is also frequent occasion to pass by Sea from _Balsora_, which will take up some 15 or 16. days Sail. There (vid. at _Comoron_) you will every year meet with _English_, _Portugal_, _Dutch_, and _Moorish_ Vessels, from _Surat_, from _October_ till the end of _April_, for they are obliged to be at _Surate_, before the end of _May_, because all the ports of those {328} _Indies_ are shut the 4. ensuing months, by reason of the danger of that _Sea_.