‘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’ [‎353] (374/508)

J Voyage to EAST-INDIA, <&c.
was now fhortly to leave us ^ and he being at prefent not Very
wellj if he Ihould die in the way toward Snrat^ whither He Was
now intended to go, (which place he had not yet feen)he might
be buryed in Obfcurity, and none of his F rlends ever know
what became of him j he travelling now, as he ufiially did 5 alone.
Upon which my Lord willed to ftay longer with us 3 but he thank-
folly refufed that offer, and turned his face prefently after to
wards Suraty which was then about three hundred miles diftant
from us,'and he lived to come fafely thither : but there being
aver-kindly uled by fome of the Englifh who gave him Sac^
which they ha <J brought from England, he calling foritasfoon
as he firft heard of it, and crying, Sac^ Sacf^! Is there fuch a
thing as I pray you give me fome Sack, And drinking of
it y though I conceive, moderately, ( for he was a very tempe
rate man) it increaled his Flux which he had then upon him 5 and:\
this cauied him within a few dayes after his very tedious and
troubldome Travels ffor he went mpft on foot) at this place
to come to his )ourneies end 5 for here he overtook Death
Decemb. 1617. and was buried ("as aforefaid) under a little Ado-
uument J like one of thofe ufoally made in our Church-yards. I
now proceed to our former Difcourfe of the Defcription of the
Great Megol's Territories : Which I fhall digeft into feveral
Sections.
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S E C T IO N I.
Of the feveral PrCvinceSy the chief Cities, theFrin~
cipalKivers, the extent of this vajl Empire.
THe moft fpacious Monarchy under the fubjedtion of the
Great Mogol, divides it felf into thirty and feven feveral
and large Provinces,which anciently were particular Kingdoms,
whofe true Names (which we there had out of the MogoVs own
Records^ with their Principal Cities and Rivers, their Situation
znd Borders, their Extent in length and breath, I (hall firft fet
down very briefly, beginning at the North-Weft. Yet as I name
thefe feveral Provinces, I Qiall by the way take notice of fomc
particulars in them which are moft Remarkable.
1. C and ah ore, the chief City fo called 5 it lyes from the heart
of the &6gol s Territories North-Weft 5 it confines with the
Ring of Perjta, and was anciently a Province belonging to him-
2. Cahut^the chief City fo called, the extreameft part —^ —
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is Southerly till it difchargeth it felf into
3. Muttan, the chief City fo called 5 it lyeth South from ^
Cabnt and Candahore, arid to the Weft joynes with Perfia. This /
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