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A65019	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. Parte 3. English	Della Valle, Pietro, 1586-1652.; Havers, G. (George); Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Terry, Edward, 1590-1660. Relation of Sir Thomas Roe's voyage.	1665 (1665)	Wing V48; ESTC R10032	493,750	487

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 which the Capigi intends to accompany me we having provided us arms and resolutions not to fear meeting Arabian Thieves I declin'd the Cafila not only that I might go as I pleas'd but also to avoid prolonging the voyage by the slowness of the Carriages in the Desart which affords nothing but bare earth void of water and grass If it please God I will write to you again at Aleppo from whence you shall receive the next LETTER XI From Aleppo August 5. 1625. HAving obtain'd licence of the Aga to depart on the one and twentieth of May in the Evening I caus'd my goods to be carri'd to a Field without the City call'd Mascraqa where the Camels were to take their burdens and having order'd a little Tent to be pitcht there I repair'd thither with Marian Tinatim and all my servants May the twenty second Having in the day dispatcht some small business which remain'd for me to do in order to my departure and paid a Custom usually demanded of such as go out of Bassora about midnight I departed the City and travell'd all night having presently enter'd into the Desart which is altogether level first in clayie and something dirty ways and afterwards in dry with very little grass for Camels May the twenty third After we had travell'd about six leagues we arriv'd at a Town of the Arabians call'd Cuvebeda where an Arabian Sceich resides who receives a Gabel of the Caravans and Burdens that pass that way at my time he was call'd Sceich Abdullah Here we pitch't a tent in a field without the Town in expectation of our chief Camelier who was to follow us with one of those Capigi's that had been sent from the Serdar to the Basha of Bassora But on May the twenty fifth because he came not and it was tedious to me to abide longer in that place where the wind and the dust much molested us in the Evening I dispatcht my servant Michel to Bassora with Letters to F. Fra Basilio Sig Consalvo Martins de Castelbranco Factor of the Portugals and Chogia Negem earnestly entreating them to procure that the chief Camelier might come away forth-with or in case he must stay yet longer for the Capigi that he would give order to his under-Cameliers to conduct us forwards and I would go without him if not I would return to Bassora Two dayes after my Servant return'd from Bassora with this account That the Capigi would come away the next day without fail and that F. Fra Gregorio Orsino a Dominican formerly known to me and Vicar General at Constantinople ten years before was arriv'd at Bassora from Armenia where he had been Apostolical Visitor in order to go speedily into Italy and hearing of my being upon the way to Aleppo intended to come along with the chief Camelier Which last News was so welcome to me that I accounted all the time of my pass'd and yet future waiting at Cuvebeda well spent for I imagin'd the Capigi would not come so soon as they said because the Moors never speak truth May the thirtieth At dark night the above-said F. Fra Gregorio Orsino arriv'd with the chief Camelier Hhaggi Ahhamed I receiv'd him with such contentment as you may imagine and though he civilly declin'd it caus'd him to lodg with me in my Tent. The Capigi came not and though they said he would come presently after yet I conceiv'd we were to wait for him yet a good while and perhaps till the New Moon it being the custom of the Moors almost ever to begin their journeys at the New Moon Iune the third Early in the Morning the Capigi arriv'd at the place where we waited for him whereupon in order to our further progress we discharg'd such duties of Gabels or Customs as were to be paid at this Town You must know that in the whole way of this Desart we were to pay four Tolls or Customs if he that conducted us did not deceive us namely to Sceich Abdullah Lord of Cuvebeda for every Camels's load of fine Merchandize valu'd at the rate of Indian Cloth five Piastres for every like load of any other Goods whatsoever valu'd at the rate of Tobacco a much lesser summ but I know not how much Another Gabel was to be paid to a Chieftain of the Arabians of the Desart whom they call Ben Chaled he takes for every load be it what it will five Lari which amount to one Piastre and a Sciahi besides of which eight and a third part go for a Piastre at Bassora but at Aleppo onely eight The third Gabel was to be paid to another Head of the Arabians sirnamed il Cieco who takes for every load what-soever six Sciahi and lastly six other Sciahi were in like manner to be paid for every load to another Captain of Arabians Cousin to the fore-said Cieco Scich Abdullah Lord of Cuvebeda said he would take nothing of me in regard of two Letters which I brought him one from the Basha of Bassora and the other from the Factor of the Portugals his Friend both of them having much recommended me to him The other three were not themselves at Cuvebeda but had their Agents or Officers there to whom we paid what they said was due and they gave us an Acquittance for it that it might not be demanded of us again by any other of their Officers in the Desart Iune the fourth Sceich Abdullah it seems alter'd his mind concerning the Gabel which he had remitted and requir'd the same of me taking for my two Trunks ten Piastres which was a most rigorous rate I mention this to give notice of the manner of proceeding and little punctualness observ'd by these Barbarians Iune the fifth We departed very early from Cuvebeda and before noon arriv'd at certain Wells or Pits which they call Ganemiat importing their use for Cattel where we found many Arabians lodg'd At a distant view of them we betook our selves to our Arms against what-ever should happen but upon nearer approach we perceiv'd them to be poor peaceable people whereupon we lodg'd all together in that place Yet here we had News that a band of Arabian Thieves had way-lay'd us at another Pass a little further off with intent to assault us For discovering

Michael the Archangel That besides the Pope almost all the Cardinals fell sick through the inconveniences of the Conclave in so hot a season and many of them dy'd as Pignatelli Serra Sauli Gozzadino and Sacrati and the Card. Gherardi and Aldobrandino remaining still grievously sick and that of the Conclavists there dy'd about sixty which indeed was a great number for a Conclave that lasted so short a while That Telli Tilly the Emperor's General had given a great rout to Alberstat and the Emperor's Affairs in Germany pass'd very well That 't was true a confederacy was made against Spain about the 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 Urbin 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 Ikkeri 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 Streight 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 They brought News of the miserable wrack of a Ship call'd San Giovanni which two years before set forth from Goa for Portugal very 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 behaving themselves 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