"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" [‎٣‎٢‎٦] (٥٠٨/٣٤٧)

326 A Voyage fo E A S T-IN DI A, &€.
/bi b 'J 16 hei s hc of the T-i^rd. in Cornwall, and, that day, for thTt
//, took our laft fight of our Country. x
^HasrcAi // This wind was fdvourable to us till the fixteehth day at night
,/ ,/ ^ whi r ch ,ime 2 mo , ft Jarful ftorm met us, we being then in the
Bay ot Tortugul^ whole violence continued five whole days and
nights; and that Tempeftwas the moft lively and real Com
ment, that ever I obferved, on that place recorded in
IO7.23. J
" ^ T h r twenty eighth day, We had fight of the Grand
■ led the Peai ut,taln ln the Itlando f Twerifa, commonly cal-
This over-grown rife of Earth, isin (hape like to a Pyramis
or u gar-J oat, circled, and wrapt about with many wreaths ot
clouds, which encompafs it by feveral diftances; as firft earth
then clouds, above Which the earth appears again, then clouds
again, then earth; the top of it being of fuch an immenfe height
wannnaybeas truly faid of this, as Virgil. Ectog. 5. writes of
Candidus infuetum miratur limen Olympic
Suh pedibttjqi videt mbes^ & fidera
' i"'"' : U'V ' v : *i Xi J rl '■ ' f i [ ; • ;
So beautiful, it Heavens unwonted Ipires
And Clouds, and Stars under its feet admires.
This Peak of Temrifa, in a clear day, may befeen fif the
Manners report truth) more than forty leagues at Sea. Thefe
Illands lie twenty ieight Degrees of North-Latitude.
_ The one and thirtieth being Eafter-day, We pafled under the
7,4 I ro P' ck 0 l C *" ce r- A nd the feventh of Jfril, the Sun was in its
r ^r/ ^', . at Noon-day direftly over our heads, which
we found by this infallible Demonftration made by a Qender
kmfe,or long Need e,fet upright,which did caft no Ihadow. The
hun in this courfe like the Equmodtial, divides the Globe of the
Heavens in two equal parts 5 and in this Motion arifethfo di
rectly or upright, that thereisbuta very little time 'twixt the
3^ a f nd J the , appearance of the body of the Sun in the
morning; for tis dark immediatly before the Sun then appears ;
Hplif f! 3 ln u eniDg pr f fentl y after the Sun hath left the
cxtShwt. Herewewere Calmed fourteen days, enduring
/od ^ri/ the fixteenth we met with winds, (we being'then aeainft
the Turnldo^ which the Mariners call
the Turmdoet ; very ftrange Gu(hindeed,like thofe
on the fliore yEfi. a .^ t; " J>5
„ n , ' 10 e fel f-oppofing blafts we there had, were fo variable and
uncertain, that fometimes within the fpace of one hour, all the
JUT e r ral Cwhich are obferved info many points
ot the Compafs) will blow, fo that if there be many Ships in
company,you mayobfervethemallto fail fo many feveral ways,
and