"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" [‎٢‎٤‎١] (٥٠٨/٢٦٢)

Into the E AS T IN DIES . "H*
under the faid Uland Cats, which is forty Leagues from
Some of our people went afhore to refrefti themfelves, but found
nothing except a few Herbs, and a fruit like Goof-berries > which
yet to us that were ill furnifh'd with Provifion were not unwel
come. I muft not omit here i, that when we pafs'd by the Bay
of Lemons, we left the Coaft of Jrabia , and croft over to fail
along the oppofite Coaft of PcrJU, which is the better way from
from thence forward. , . ,
February thefixteenth, We departed from Cats, andat nrght
certain Artnetiiatis who were in our Ship, were let a fhore on the
Perlianfide, in order to go to Nachilu, which was not far from
thence,to meet certain companions of theirs who had gone before
Ma fcat' in another Ship with much common Merchandize.
February the feventeenthjA contrary wind repell d our courfe
backwards, fo that we anchor'd under an uninhabited Ifland
call'd Aadreve, where we ftay'd till the twentieth of the fame
Moneth when the above-fa'id Armenians not finding their com
panions at Nachilu , return'd to the Ship, and brought two Let-.
tcrs froon thcGovcrnour of thftt plscc 5 one to the Csptsin snd
all the reft in general, offering the Ship a free Pott, and defiting
us to fell our Merchandize there, becaufethey hadfuffer'd much
by war ; that they would (hew all good ufage to the Portugals •
as Merchants; and in cafe we trufted him not fo much as togo
a (hore, we might ride at Anchor in the open Sea, and they
would fend people and money to buy many things. The other
Letter was direfted to the Religious that were in the Ship, fonte
of whom he had underftood were mindedto go to Sphahau and
therefore he promis'd them good and fecure palliige with all cour-
tefie. But neither did the Ship ftay to fell anything, nor the
Religious think good [to land in that place, for all thofe
promifes. . , . , . '
February the two arid twentieth. Being at Anchor in a certain
place,, at ni^ht we defcry'd Tome Veffels afar off 3 which we knew
not what they were ^ arid therefore weighing Anchor^ and put-
ting our felves in a pofture for fight, we row'd up to them.
When we came near, we found them to be of thotc Pcrji.if! Vtl- /
fels, which they call Terr at s, (a kind of great bark, frequent in
thefe Seas) laden with Dates and Viftuals. Yet becaufe they
neither ftay'd for us nor obey'd, we difchafg d fome Falcons
and many Mulkets at them, without doing any hurt , becaufe
of thofe that (hot none knew how to do it as they ought, but aU
was done with great confufion and diforder, as is ufual amonglt
thePortueals, efpecially in our Ship, which was a Merchant and
not a Man of War. So that the Pe went away un-
touch'd, and we not onelytook them not, as we mightealuy
have done , had our Ships been well arm'd and well-govern d 5
but it feem'd alfo, that, had thofe Veflels had armed people, and
a mind to aflault us, they might eafily have taken us confider-
ne the little order and preparation for fight that Ifaw inour
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