‘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’ [‎26] (47/508)

The Travels of Peter Delia Valley
Jaurns, or Imaus, where it divides India from tart aria jg
that great Monarch , whom in Europe you commonly call the
Great JWoghol: Which Name is given him, becaufe of his being
A0&/ ,■«. deriv'd from a Race of Tartars call'd Aloghok^ho are of the City
\ /* 'of Samarcand^ and the Province of Giagata, which is the ancient'
• ' so^dianai) as'tis manifefted by the Perfian Geography, where
I / v ' to this day that Territory is denoted and diftinguifh'd by the
^ ' \ ancient name of SoghoL Teimur Len^ call'd by us Tamerlane^
i . ^ as frij r jHfejr reports, a famous Author of thofe times, who
/ wrlt Hiftory in the P^<i»-Tongue handfomely and with
great exadnels, cfefcended by a collateral line from the near
t / kindred of Cnighiz* Chan, the moft puiffant King of Chataio,
known alfo in Europe to our Hiftories, and by S. Antomno^ who
cT. anddfe- 9 ' wr ^ te8 largely concerning hitif, nam'd with a little corruption
whc'tc. CingisCham. Ttis Cw/gte warring with his neighbours, and
^ /y/ y ■ deftroying many oth^r Principalities, became at length Lord of a
V aft E>ominion,and in a manner of all Tart aria, (which compre-
1 ilLty/At r* / hends both the one and the other Scythia) and at his death di-
1 / vided the fame between his Sons. To the (econd Son
^ 9 ountr y Sa ***rcand, with all Sogdiana, and fundry
/ other adjacent Territories , and He, from his own Name call'd
y?, si / ■ it 074£iff«w,and all the Nations who remain'd under his Govern-
xnent Giagataians: A very ancient cuftome of xhz Scythians to
/l-c give the Princes Name to Counties and their Subjedts, as ap-
' Lib. 2. pears hj Diodorns Si cuius. In proceft of time, a Defcendant of
SL/^y */ Giagata reigning ftill in thefe parts, Tqmur Lenl^ 3 though ex-
/ ^ tradted from the nobleft blood of the Kings, yet remote from
' the Royal Stock by a long feries, liv'd in Sam arc and his own
f / / Countr y5 a man rather of valour then of great fortune. But it
t<x^/ falling out that the King at that time was flain for his evilde-
* portments , by the Grandees of the Country ^ in which con-
SU^ Juncture Teimur I.e»^ was eleded and placed in the Sove-
/ A reignty ; He, not contented with the fole Kingdom of Giaeataio
Ow being increased in ftrength and power, made afterwards thofs
/l J J V / / ^ reat Ex P edltlons wh ich the World beheld; Of which never-
[ LTnttyj thelefs, little fincere fame arrives to us > there being no Europe-
^ an who hath written truly thereof, laving briefly in the Sfanifb-
/ Tongue iiiy Gonzales de Clavijo, who was fent thither Embaffa-
V /• 7 V/ ,// } Kin ^ Don HeHr J the Third Caple. In like manner
- ■ T "' u "r his d « th kft that his great acquired Empire, divided
/ 4^. Co, ^f^°l S( "l S and N e P h ew ?5 vyho falling at variance after-
/ 4 ds 3 their Succeflors continuing the fame, ruin'd one ano-
/ ther with fundry warrs 5 and God knows whether in Tartan
there be left at this day any Prince of that Race. A Cadet or
ounger Brother of them, who had no (hare among the Tartars
came over the Mountains to feek his fortune in /«£?,within the
t-ourtor a Prince then reigning in one part of it: Where beins
once mtrodue'd^ by great alliances and fervices he rais'd a
Home i and in time, various Revolutions brought ii to pafs that
one