‘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’ [‎275] (296/508)

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more or lefs power,without any regard of the Prince, whom as a
child they not only eftcem'd kept remote from the Goverment,
but endcavour'd to keep always fo by educating him only to de
lights and pleafutes. Laftly, how the Serdar or Grand Vizier
lately fent to the War of Pcr/w, was
that he was not fent from Conjimtinopte but created or
GrmdV%ur whilft he was at Amid or Diarbekir.w Baftia orGover-
nor-,from whencc .without being feen to pafs by fpending
much time by the way, hehapnedtobe the fame year in
potamU ; which, I faid above, that I much wondred at, and -
could not believe, in cafe he had come from as or
dinarily itufes to be.He told me ,that indeed he was ftillat
and had not pafs'd further, becaufe he continually waited for the
coming upot the Army, which was not yet gathei d^together*
Whereby it appears to be true what I had always affirm d atBaJfo-
ra i namely, that nothing would be done this year in theWar of
BairMad]beczuCe it would fcarcefuffice for the uniting oi art Army,
the expedition being begun, and the fame year, and the Serdar
who was to beGeneral being newly created.Stg.Gm/^* ad
ded to thefe relations concerning the Turks fome news about the
affairs of the European Tartars, pertaining alfb tothe former 5
namely, that the Tartarian Princes of Cafa were three Brothers 5
Chan, who firft reigned, a man of fpirit and valour 5 Chan
who was a hoftage at Conjiatttiitople ^, and a third Chan, an enemy
to the two others but a Vagabond trom his own Country, and.a ,
fugitive at the Court of the Terfian, on whom he depends, and /
where he was (ecn by me in the yeat 1618.when we marcht againft
the Turkifti Army. Now of late years I know not upon what
occafion the firft Chan bsing fe^ltforto Conjiantmople, was there
detain'd Prifoner, and his Brqther Chan their Hoftage, a perlon
of little valour and age eftablfth'd in hisftead , under whom the
affairs oi his Stateproceeded very ill, and the forces wereveiy
feeble 5 by which occafion the Chafi that was in Perfia being in
vited, by the help of the Perfian , and many Tartars of the
fame Stare devoted to him, he enter'd with an Army into his pa
ternal Territories, and driving his Brother from the Throne,
made himfelf Lord thereof by force 5 continuing alfo to poiids
himfelf of all that Country by the help of the ^oftacks ot Po
land with whom he confederated in defpightot the lurks j a
thing indeed of very prejudicial confequence to them.
Aupufi thefecond, I fawat Akppoz Mahometan ot the Coun
try, who writing in the right hand of a Child or Woman of any
A?e whatfoever, certain words and characters, ('which again e
preientiy defaced by making a great blot of Ink in the paim o
the hand, and pouring Oil over it) caufed by the power ol in-
chantments and words which he (pake faft and bravingly, that
the faid Child or Woman favv in the Oil in their hands what
ever was detir'd ^ yea certain Spirits (poke to them, and an-
fwered to queftions, although the By-ftanders heard and law no-
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