‘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’ [117] (138/508)
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Into the EAST-INDIES.
ufually (lands. In the mean time one of the Minifters diftri-
buted to all the by-ftanders a little quantity of certain Fitches
mingled with fmall dices of Indian Nut, which, I conceive, had
been offer'd to the Idol 5 and they took and eat the fame with
fignes of Devotion and Reverence. He offer'd fome likewife
to our people, and there wanted not fuch as took them $ the
Drums and Fifes (bunding in the mean time : which at length
eeafing, and the Candles being put out, the Ceremonies ended,
and the people return'd to their Houfes. Such Men as were not
Officers of the Temple, affifted at thefib Ceremonies in the fir ft
entrance, where we alfo ftood : but the Women ftood more
within in the body of the Temple,where the rows of lights were.
For the better underftanding of all which de(cription, I (ball
here delineate the Plat-form of the Temple with its inclofure
and Porches 9 as well as I could do it by the Eye without mea-
furing it.
The
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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 . Translated from the Italian by George Havers. A dedication, written by Havers to the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery, precedes the main text. The second part of the volume, A Voyage to East-India with a description of the large territories under the subjection of the Great Mogol , was written by Edward Terry, and not, as the frontispiece suggests, by Sir Thomas Roe.
Publication details: Printed by J Macock for Henry Herringman, London, 1665.
There are pencil and ink annotations in margins of many pages in the volume. The index at the end of the volume is handwritten, and contains entries for: Persia, Portuguize [Portuguese], Surat, Ormuz [Hormuz], Cambay [Khambhat], and Shah Abbas.
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