‘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’ [‎467] (488/508)

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A Voyage to E A S T-IN DI A, &■(".
followers and fervants to attend them there, and ib have all
other men according to their feveral qualities; and all thefe
carry their Wives and Childern, and whole family with them,
which muft needs amount to a very exceeding great number.
And further to demonftrate this =, when that King removes from
one place to another, forthefpace of twelve hours, a broad
pafiage is continually fill'd with Paflbngers, and Elephants and
Horfts, and Dromedaries, and Camels, and Coaches, and Alies,
and Oxen, (on which the meaner fort of men and women with
little children, ridejfo full as they may well pafs one by the
other. Now in fuch a broad paflage, and in fuch a long time, a
very great number of people, the company continually moving
on forward, may pafs. .
Thus this people moving on from place to pl ace J ^ nia y
faidofthem, what fpeaks of Ifrael, whue they were m
their iournytothe land of promife, that it was AmbuUns Rejpub-
lica, a walking Commonwealth. And thcrcforethatancient
people of God were called Hebrews, which figmfied Paflengers .
their dwelling fo in Tents, fignified thus much to all the peop e
of God in all fucceeding ages, thathere they dwe 1 in moveable
habitations, having mcontiming but they muft
for one, and that is above. r .u,.
The Tents pitch'd in that Leskar, or Camp Royal, are for the
moft part white, like the doathingof thofe which ownthem.
But the Mogols Tents are red, reared up upon P ok !' h S Y
much than the other. They are placed m the nuddeftofthe
Camp, where they take up a very large
and may be fecn every wayyandthey muft needs yg^^
to afford room in theni;, for himfelf 3 his Wives, d
hu^foiSrott," or outward part or
there is a very large room for accefs to him, ca ii e( i bis
nine of the clock at night, which ( as befoie ) is called
Tents are encompafled round with vvhl ^? ^
ovrSrmJ,to fold up'together, thofe ^ arcabouten
foot high, made of narrow ftrong Calhco, a nd_ Imed with the
Ame ftifTened at every breadth with a Cane, but tn y
ftronceft lined on their out-fide by a very great company of
arm Souldiers , that keep clofe about
The Tents of his great Men are hkewife iarg , P
about his. All of them throughout the whole i ^r re«ed ^
infuchadueand conftant f dwel-
place to place, we can go as y ^ habitations,
lings, as if we continued itill in tixea ana g TV/lorket
taking our diredion from feveral ftreets and a 0 oftn f uc b
places, every one pitched.upon every remove ai 3 p al J
or fuch a fide of the Kings Tents, as if they had not oeen
removed. ^ The
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