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A65012	The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta in which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described : in familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano : whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage into the East-Indies.; Viaggi. Part 3. English	Della Valle, Pietro, 1586-1652.; Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Havers, G. (George)	1665 (1665)	Wing V47; ESTC R7903	493,251	479

the Sciah from whom he can hope little good or hurt so long as he is not Master of all as far as Aleppo which is not a thing to be brought to pass suddenly or easily But of this also time will show the truth May the ninth Another Capigi arriv'd at Bassora from the Serdar and was receiv'd with great solemnity and salutations of Artillery He brought a Robe to the Basha and intelligence that he had left the Serdar at Mardin which lies within a few dayes journey of Baghdad confirming the recovery of Mousul and Kierkuc whereof supposing the Serdar at Mardin I made no scruple and adding that the Serdar was then upon removing from Mardin and by this time had march't much forwards This is what was given out for more intrinsick and secret news I could not know having no acquaintance with any considerable Turk from whom to learn the same nor was any more then this signifi'd to the chief Commander of the Portugal Ships Only I judg'd that the Turks well considering the danger wherein Bassora was of being lost might possibly by these successive Messengers and good tidings endeavour to confirm the minds of the Basha and the people as much as they could May the eleventh The Cafila design'd for Aleppo which had many days waited some leagues without the City at length set forth and departed either because they had receiv'd a good answer from Emir Nasir or rather as I believe because they rely'd upon other fresh tidings how that Emir Nasir was reconcil'd to Emir Aburisc and return'd into the favour and devotion of the Great Turk so that the Desart was all in peace and perhaps also they trusted to the common report of the nearness of the Turkish Army I purposed to depart from Bassora the same way and upon the same day though alone and not with the Cafila having hired Camels and certain Beduni Arabians to conduct me But Ali Aga the chief Captain of the Militia gave notice to my Camelier that I must not depart within three days Whereupon being desirous to go with all speed by reason that the hot weather came on I got Sig. Consalvo Martins a Portugal Father to speak to the said Aga to know wherefore he detain'd us and if there were no cause to dispatch us and let us go The Aga answer'd that I must by all means have patience for this week that so the Cafila might have time to get a little more onwards and that he did this because he mistrusted my Camelier as a Beduin Arabian although he had a House and Wife at Bassora lest for some interest of his own departing at the same time with the Cafila he should out-go it and by other ways of the Desart wherein he was well skil'd give notice thereof to Emir Nasir or else to some other Beduin Arabians who might rob it or perhaps also to the Qizilbasci themselves Wherefore since my going so soon might prove to my own damage he desir'd for my security and the publick good of the Cafila that I would stay those few days to the end that the Cafila advancing before out of all suspected places my Camelier might not have time to do any villany either to it or to me The truth is I did not conceive my Camelier likely to do any such thing having had good information and assurance of him from Chogia Negem to whom he was well known and who recommended him to me Nevertheless since he that govern'd would have it so I had patience to wait as long as he desir'd Yet from hence I gather'd that the above-mention'd news now that the Persians and Emir Nasir conspir'd against the Cafila was not altogether vain being Ali Aga a man of so great place in Bassora had such apprehensions about it And it might consist well enough with the Cafila's departing for perhaps it went out upon a venture the Merchants being unwilling to suffer longer delay for it was above eight months since this Cafila began to unite I say at a venture because the Desart is like the Sea where ' t is a chance to meet or not meet enemies and as men forbear not to sail upon the Sea through fear of Pirats or Enemies so neither do they cease to pass through the Desart The F. Provincial of Maniglia with his Companion a Castilian too but not a Fryer of his Order Marc ' Antonio Lanza a Venetian who came with me from Goa to Bassora and I know not how many other Europaeans went along with the Cafila I alone would not but staid with my Servants to go by my self and to travel more hazardously indeed but yet with more speed and undoubtedly with more convenience then they May the thirteenth Another Capigi sent from the Serdar to the Basha arriv'd at Bassora bringing a Robe and a Scimiter as Presents and the confirmation of the Government of Bassora in his person which hitherto he had not had As for news 't was dispers'd amongst the people that the Turkish Army was very neer and almost upon Baghdad yet Letters from our Aleppo Merchants to the Carmelites brought by a Moor of the company of the said Capigi inform'd us for certain that according to my above-mention'd Prophecy the Serdar was not yet come to Aleppo 'T is true they writ that perhaps to make his voyage more compendious he would not come to Aleppo but march directly to Mesopotamia and Baghdad by another way which yet was uncertain when the said Letters were written whence 't is clear that one way or other he could not be further then Aleppo and perhaps according to my opinion was scarce departed from Constantinople So that it was not possible for Baghdad and Persia to have wars this current year 1625 since it would have been no small Summer's work to have march't to the Frontiers yet that war will follow the next year unless some other chance intervene I no-wise doubt The said Letters further told us news from Turkie mamely that the Emir of Saida anew rebelling against the Turk had taken and sackt Tripoli driving away the Basha that was there but afterwards the Basha of Aleppo marching out with his people had recover'd Tripoli and restor'd the said expell'd Basha to the government From Christendom That Italy was all in wars about the Valtoline which the French had surpriz'd out of the hands of the Pope's Officers wherewith his Holiness was much offended That the Prince of England was to marry a Sister of the King of France That the Dutch had taken an important City from the Portugals in Brasile That Marquiss Spinola had lay'd siege to another considerable one of the Dutch in Flanders that the Emperor's affairs in Germany proceeded very prosperously and other particulars of less moment which for brevity I omit May the twentieth Upon the return of Emir Zambar owner of the House where I liv'd I resign'd the possession to him and withdrew to the Covent of the Carmelites till my departure in

business of the Valtolin between France Venice and Savoy but that it will proceed no further because Spain had deposited the Valtolin in the hands of the Pope That the Prince of Vrbin was dead and consequently that State would fall to the Church which is a thing of much importance That at Venice the Doge Pruili was dead and a new Doge already elected one Contarini an eminent Person That there was a great Plague and that the King of France had subdu'd almost all the Garrisons of the Hereticks except Rochel which he also hop'd shortly to reduce to obedience That the Espousals were pass'd between the Infanta of Spain and the King of England's Son with hope that he is already a Catholick That they have given her in dower the pretensions of Holland and Zealand and money on condition that Liberty of Conscience be granted in England and four Churches for Catholicks built in London which was already executed publick Writings thereof going about in print besides divers other Affairs of Europe of less consideration May the nineteenth One Ventura da Costa a Native of Canara was married He was a domestick servant to Sig Alvaro da Costa a Priest and our Friend Lord of a Village near Goa for whose sake who was willing to honour his servant's wedding in his own House I and some other Friends went thither to accompany the Bride and the Bride-groom to the Church of San Blagio a little distant in another Village which was the Parish of the Bride where the Ceremonies were perform'd in the Evening for coolness sake The Company was very numerous consisting of many Portugal Gentlemen such perhaps as few other Canarini have had at their Marriages The Spouses came under Umbrella's of Silk garnish'd with silver in other particulars the Ceremonies were according to the custom of the Portugals onely I observ'd that according to the use of the Country in the Company before the Married Persons there march'd a party of fourteen or sixteen men odly cloth'd after the Indian fashion to wit naked from the girdle upward and their Bodies painted in works with white Sanders and adorn'd with bracelets and necklaces of Gold and Silver and also with flowers and turbants upon their heads in several gallant fashions and streamers of several colours hanging behind them From the girdle downwards over the hose which these Canarini use to wear short like ours they had variously colour'd clothes girt about them with streamers or flying laps hanging down a little below the knee the rest of the leg was naked saving that they had sandals on their feet These fine fellows danc'd all the way both going and returning accompanying their dances with chaunting many Verses in their own Language and beating the little snappers which they carry'd in their hands after the fashion of the Country formerly taken notice of at Ikkerì And indeed the dances of these Canarini are pleasant enough so that in the Festivities made at Goa for the Canonization of the Saints Ignatio and Sciavier though in other things they were most solemn and sumptuous yet in my conceit there was nothing more worthy to be seen for delight then the many pretty and jovial dances which interven'd in the Tragedy The Marry'd Couple being return'd from Church to the Bride's House we were entertain'd with a handsome Collation of Sweet-meats in the yard which was wholly cover'd over with a Tent and adorn'd with Trees and green boughs the Company sitting round and the Marry'd Couple on one side at the upper end upon a great Carpet under a Canopy After which we all return'd home and the Husband stay'd that night to sleep in his Wife's House May the twentieth A Galley of the Fleet expected from Mozambique arriv'd at Goa It brought Sig Don Nugro Alvares sometimes General there and Supream Governour of all that Coast of Cafuria comprising under his Government the Rivers of Coama Mombace and as much of Africk as the Portugals have from Capo di Buono Esperanza to the St●eight of Meka and with him a Jesuit that was a Bishop one of those that were to go into Aethiopia The Patriarch design'd thither being also a Jesuit remain'd behind in another Galeot as likewise did the Ships of the last years Portugal Fleet which came on by little and little 〈◊〉 brought News of the miserable wrack of a Ship call'd San G●●●●nni which two years before set forth from Goa for Portug●●●●ry ●●ry rich and meeting with the Dutch by the way after a long fight being totally shatter'd ran a ground upon the Coast of Cafuria so that saving the people remaining after the fight and the Jewels all was lost Which people after this disaster refusing both the offer of good entertainment made them by the Lord of the place who was a Friend to the Portugals all upon advice sent to Mozambique they might have passage thither and also his counsel to travel far within Land where he said they would have less trouble in passing many Rivers which otherwise they would meet with and find an unarmed and more hospitable people but unadvisedly after the inconsiderate humor of the Portugals resolving to go by land to Mozambique and travel always far from the Sea amongst barbarous inhospitable people who eat humane flesh and with-all not ●ehaving thems●lves well with them in their passage but out of a foolish temerity giving many occasions of disgusts they were assaulted in many places by the said Cafiri often spoyl'd and rob'd and many of them kill'd so that of the Women that were with them some were taken others strip'd naked till after a thousand inconveniences and sufferings and as some say about eight moneths travelling on foot during which they were fain to wade through abundance of Rivers at last no more of the company arriv'd at Mozambique but twenty seven persons all the rest being either slain by the way or dead of hardships excepting some few that were kept slaves by the Cafiri amongst which was a Portugal Gentlewoman of quality whom they kept to present to their King without hope I believe of ever being deliver'd A misery indeed worthy of compassion The Jewels sent from Goa to be sold in Portugal were almost all sav'd and deposited at Mozambique in the Misericordia some say to be restor'd to the owners and others say at the instance of the King's Officer who pretends the King 's Right to them as shipwrackt goods yet most conclude that the case will not be so judg'd but that they will be restor'd to the owners upon payment of some small matter to those that sav'd them May the three and twentieth I visited the above-mention'd Bishop now arriv'd in Goa at the Colledge of San Paolo Novo He was call'd Dom Joanno da Rocha and nominated but not consecrated Bishop of Heliopoli On the twenty sixth I visited in the Covent of our Lady della Gratia F. Fra Manoel della Madre di Dio formerly known to me in Persia and now