"رحلات السيد بيترو ديلا فالي، وهو نبيل روماني، إلى الهند الشرقية وصحراء الجزيرة العربية. وفيها يصف بدقة البلدان المختلفة، وكذلك العادات، الأعراف، التجارة، الطقوس الدينية والمدنية، لهؤلاء الأمراء وتلك الأمم الشرقية: في رسائل وديّة إلى صديقه السيد ماريو سكيبانو. وتم إضافة سرد عن رحلة السير توماس رو إلى جزر الهند الشرقية" [‎٦‎٣] (٥٠٨/٨٤)

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Mo the EAST-INDIES.
Mard the tenth. Having gone theftiortway which remam'd,
and pafs'd the River of Sural by boat, we cameto that City
about Noon, where I repair'dto theHoufe before affign'd me
by the Dutch Commendator, and there found the Daughter of
one of the Armmim or Merchants, feenby vstx Ahmed*-
httd^ who was come thither with a Brother of hers, in order to
be marry "d fliortly to one Slg* Gnilielfito^ a Hollujniav^ to whom
(he had been promised in Marriage at Ahmedabad, and who alio
was in the fame Houfe, which was capable of him and more. I
underftood at surit , that Snltax Chorrem had taken andfackt
the City of Agfa except the Caftle, and that his Army and him-
felf had committed very great Cruelties there in fpoiling and dif-
coverine the Goods and Mony ofthe Citizens 5 particularly, that
he had rortur d^and undecently tangled many Women of quali
ty and done other like barbarities, whereby he render d r ittuelt
very odious to the people. Concerning A faf Chan, it was faid^that
he was held in cuftody by the King, as fufpefted ot Rebellion,
although his affairs were Ipoken of with much uncertamty i and
that the King was haftning to come againft his Son, but was not
yet far off, and mov'd flowly. '* . .
the one and twentieth^ Conceiving the returnot the*, XXI,
Portugal Cafila from Cambaia to Got to be near hand, and definng
to make a Voyage with the fame 5 fince in regard of the great-
nefsof my luggage , and the length of the way I could not go
by Land, and'twas not fafe going by Sea, by reafon of the con-
tinual incuffions of the Mahabar Pirates y I difpatch d a Meuen-
ger to Daman, a City of the FortHgats, a little way from Surat,
to F. Antonio Albertino^ Reftor of the Colledge of JeluitSj with
the Letter which their above -mefttion'd Father had given me in
Cambaia » and giving him account of my felf and my intention,
I delir'd him to fend me from Daman one of thofe Light Vellels
which they call Almadi<e, and are of that fwiftnefs that they are
not at all afraid of Pirates, to carry me from to
where I delir'd to meet the Cafila : For I could not go by a boat
of Sural fince the Mariners of Sural would not have taken my
Goods, aboard which were in the Englilh Ships,without firft car-
ryine them into the City to make them pay Cuftom whereby
1 might have been put to a great deal of trouble of 8 0ln 8
ward and forward, as alfo upon the account of the Moonlla
Books which I had with me, and reliques^ ofSlg: Maant.
Wherefore to prevent thefe intricacies, I pray d the Father to
fend me a Boat from Daman to take me in not at the City, but at
the Port where the Ships tide , and where I intended to be with
my Goods ready upon the ftiore of Sohah. And to the end this
Tortmal Boat might come fecurely and not tear, I fent him two
fafe Condufts, one from the Englilh, and the other from the
Dutch ^ although there was no necefiity of them, becaufe Boats
come many times fecretly from Daman , without fuch late on
duft to fell Commodities to the Englilh Ships.