"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" [‎٣‎٢‎٥] (٥٠٨/٣٤٦)

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TO
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A Defcription of the large Territories under
the fubje(5lion of the Great c5VrO (jO L.
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Pologies V do more queftioti than ftrengthen
Truth, which Truth hath fuch power in prevail
ing, that (he doth not know, and much lefs
needs^theufeof Preface or words ofPerfwafio^
to get her credit 5 for though (he appear fimple
and naked unto open' view^yet dares (he encunn- .
ter with armed falftiood, and isfure at laft to overcome ; which
Truth being the beft ornament of this enfuing Difcourle, looks
to be credited, in what is here faithfully^ related, /> / a
So to make a re-entry upon a long*lince finiftied Voyage 5 /Of ^ ^
The third of February 1615. our Fleet confifting of fix good t/W ^ ^ J
Ships, three great, viz, the Charles^ Admiral ot that Company,
then a New -built goodly ghip of a Fhoufand Tuns^ (in which
I fayled 5) the Vnicorn a new ship likewifej and almoft of as
great a burden 5 the a great Ship too 5 Three leiier,^/^.
the Globe, the Swan, the Rofe, Call under the Command of
Captain J 0 fiph) fell down from Gr^^ey-end into ^
^wr^-Hope, where we continued till the eighth day following, »^ / 4
when we weighed Anchorj, and by a Slow, that we might have
the fafer pafiage, the twelfth came into the where an ^ ^
adverfe windtorced our abode till the n inth of March^ou vvh?ch ^
dayitpleafed God to fend us, what we had much oeiircd^ a
North -Eaft wind, which made us leave that wefcry Road, and ^ ^
fet fail for Eafi-India 5 and thecleVenth about night, we were m
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