‘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’ [‎252] (273/508)

Lhe Travels cf Peter Delia Vallc,
kept there for plealure. It was of the (hape of other Affes
but of a brighter colour, and had a ridge of white hair from the
head to the tail., like the mane of a Horfe 5 in running and leap-
ingj it leem'd much nimbler then the ordinary fort of Affes.
March the three and twentieth, A Portugal came from the
Baftias Camp to Baffora, bringing News that the gizilbafci were
return'd home to their own Countries, and that infuchhafte
that they had left much Cattel, Goods, and Meat ready dreG'd
in the Camp where they had quartered : Which fo unexpeded
departure of the Perjlan Army, could not happen through any
dilturbance given them by that of the Bajha > but, perhapSjthey
were re-call'd for fome other war, or fervice of greater ne-
ceflity, as that of Or muz, or againft the Turks, or againftthe
MogholditCandahar^ which the Sciah had lately taken,
March the four and twentieth, I took the height of the Sun in
Bajjbra at noon, and found him decline 28 degrees 48 minutes
^ ^ from the Zenith. He was this day, according to theEpheme-
- y^/^/^9 ridesof VwidOrigams, in4degrees, 4minutes, 57 fecondsof
^ and according to the Meridian of the faid Ephemerides,
declined from the iEquinodial North-wards degrees j but
according to our Meridian of tiajfora, calculating by proportion-
all parts, 1 degree, 38 minutes, and 32 feconds, which, added to
the 28 degrees 48 minutes of the Sun's Declination from the
Zenith, amount to 30 degrees;, 26 minutes, 32 feconds. So that
the Zenith of Bajjora is diftant from the iEquinoftial 30 degrees,
26 minutes, 32 lecoads, to which the Elevation of the North-
Pole at the fame is equal.
the one and thirtieth, Return'd the two Ships
7, above-mention'd to have been lent abroad by the General
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— i iijmft udiLjucb can a icrrats^ witn
much wealth in them ^ and a rich Moor, who oiier'd a thoufand
Patacches for his Kanfome, but they would not accept it. All the
other Moors in the Veflels they killed, with two young childreiij
leir, as they laid, it they Ihould have carry'd them into a Coun-
tij ot Moors, the Bafha would have released them ; However,
in leem'd to me a great Cruelty, although it be no new thing
among the Portugds^ who upon all occafions commit the like and
greater in India.
Apnl the feventh, The Baftia return'd with all his Army to
aj or a} t e fear and danger ot the war being now over by the
cioparture of thePerfans. He enter'd into the City betimes in
the Morning with great pomp, and the falutations of the Ar
tillery.
the thirteenth, F. Bajiliodi San Francefo. a Bare -footed
Carmelite having finifli'd the building of the little Church and
Coventof his Order which he had founded at Baffora, made a
lolemn t eait, adorning both the Church, and the whole Orato-
- . . ifT ry