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<NAME>TCP Staff (Michigan)</NAME>
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<HEAD>Prince <HI>Giolo</HI> Son to the King of <HI>Moangis</HI> or <HI>Gilolo:</HI> lying under the <HI>Aequator</HI> in the <HI>Long.</HI> of 152 <HI>Deg.</HI> 30 <HI>Min.</HI> a fruit|ful I&s;land abounding with rich Spices and other valuable Commodities.</HEAD>
<P>THIS unfortunate Prince &s;ailing towards a neighbouring I&s;land with his Mo|ther and young Si&s;ter, to Complement the intended Marriage betwixt her and the King of that I&s;land, a violent Tempe&s;t &s;urprized them and drove the Ve&s;&s;el on &s;hoar upon the Coa&s;t of <HI>Mindanao;</HI> where they were all made Pri&s;oners, except the young Lady, with whom the King was &s;o inamoured, that he took her to Wife; yet &s;uffered the Prince and his Mother <HI>Nacatara</HI> to be purcha&s;ed for Money, who were &s;oon, after embarqued for <HI>Europe:</HI> the Mother died, but the Prince her Son is arriv'd in <HI>England.</HI></P>
<P>This famous <HI>painted Prince</HI> is the ju&s;t wonder of the Age, his whole Body (except Face, Hands and Feet,) is curiou&s;ly and mo&s;t exqui&s;itely <HI>painted</HI> or <HI>&s;tained</HI> full of Variety of Invention, with prodigious Art and Skill perform'd. In &s;o much, that the antient and noble My&s;tery of Painting or Staining upon Humane Bodies &s;eems to be compri&s;ed in this one &s;tately Piece.</P>
<P>The Pictures and tho&s;e other engraven Figures copied from him, and now di&s;per&s;ed abroad, &s;erve only to de&s;cribe as much as they can of the Fore-parts of this inimitable Piece of Work|man&s;hip: The more admirable Back-parts afford us a lively Repre&s;entation of one quarter part of the World upon and betwixt his &s;houlders, where the Arctick and Tropick Circles center in the North Pole on his Neck. And all the other Lines, Circles and Characters are done in &s;uch exact Symmetry and Proportion, that it is a&s;toni&s;hing and &s;urmounts all that has hi|therto been &s;een of this kind. What Wi&s;dom and antient Learning may lie veiled under tho&s;e other curious Figures and my&s;terious Characters &s;cattered up and down his Body, mu&s;t be the Work of very ingenious Men to di&s;cover.</P>
<P>The Paint it &s;elf is &s;o durable, that nothing can wa&s;h it off, or deface the beauty of it: It is prepared from the Juice of a certain Herb or Plant, peculiar to that Country, which they e&s;teem infallible to pre&s;erve humane Bodies from the deadly poi&s;on or hurt of any venomous Creatures what&s;oever. This Cu&s;tom they ob&s;erve, that in &s;ome &s;hort time after the Body is paint|ed, the &s;ame Body is carried naked, with much Ceremony, to a &s;pacious Room appointed, which is filled with all &s;orts of the mo&s;t venomous, pernicious Creatures can be found; &s;uch as Snakes, Scorpions, Vipers, and Centapees, <HI>&amp;c.</HI> (The King him&s;elf pre&s;ent). The Gran|dees and multitude of Spectators &s;eeing the naked Body &s;urrounded with &s;o many venomous Creatures, and unable to wound or do any mi&s;chief to it; &s;eem to be tran&s;ported and ready to adore him; for none but tho&s;e of the Royal Family are permitted to be thus painted with it.</P>
<P>This excellent Piece has been lately &s;een by many Per&s;ons of high Quality, and accu|rately &s;urveyed by &s;everal learned <HI>Virtuo&s;i,</HI> and ingenious Travellers, who have expre&s;s'd very great &s;atisfaction in &s;eeing of it.</P>
<P>This admirable Per&s;on is about the Age of Thirty, graceful, and well proportioned in all his Limbs, extreamly mode&s;t and civil, neat and cleanly; but his Language is not under|&s;tood, neither can be &s;peak Engli&s;h.</P>
<P>He will be expo&s;ed to publick view every day (during his &s;tay in Town) from the 16th. day of this in&s;tant <HI>June,</HI> at his Lodgings at the <HI>Blew Boars-Head</HI> in <HI>Fleet&s;treet,</HI> near <HI>Water-Lane:</HI> Where he will continue for &s;ome time, if his health will permit.</P>
<P>But if any Per&s;ons of Quality, Gentlemen, or Ladies, do de&s;ire to &s;ee this noble Per&s;on, at their own Hou&s;es, or any other convenient place, in or about this City of <HI>London;</HI> they are de&s;ired to &s;end timely notice, and he will be ready to wait upon them in a Coach or Chair, any time they plea&s;e to appoint, if in the day time.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Vivant Rex &amp; Regina.</SIGNED></CLOSER>
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