‘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’ [‎4] (19/508)

The Epi/lle Dedicatory.
having been able to revive and fupport a long-
deprcfled Intereft in a Confiderablc Kingdom,
is lo highly celebrated upon the account of
other Performances, as fcarce to find a Parallel
among thofeof your own , or any other Orb.
Nor is it a little ground of Confidence to me,
that what i prefent is neither wholly my own in
any fort, nor any of it otherwife then as an In
terpreter ,• nor (laftlyj one of thofe refined
Pieces of invention, which while your Prote
ction is implored,do with-all foliate your Judg-
ment • But of that fond of Writings, 4 which
containing Defcriptions of Countries and their
Cuftoms, can onely pleafe by the Variety of
the Relations, and the Veracity of the Relator.
He, whom I have interpreted, was a Nibble
Roman, Q P erfohs of which Quality, as they
have greater Curiofity, fo they have far more
Advantages in reference to making of Obfer-
vations in Forreign Countries, than they whofe
chief bufinefsisTraffick) and was carried:one
ly by his own curious Genius into thofe Ori
ental parts of the-World, whereof he here gives
an Account j which is fo full of delightful Va
riety, and confiderable Remarks, that as after
his Return his Pcrfon was dignifid with an
Honourable Office in the Court of his own
rince • fo, fince his Death, his Travels have
no ids happily travell d, and been naturalizd in
lome other Languages.
The other Piece hath been judg'd fit to be
adjoyned, as one of the Exadteft Relations of
the