‘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’ [‎62] (83/508)

The Travels of Peter OellaValle,
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waited a while for a tit hour} in company of a numerous CafiU
of Coaches 3 Carts, Horfe-men and Foot-men, in the fame
manner and circumftances as I writ before 5 onely the Water
was now much higher then we had found it at our coming 5 lb
that it came into all the Coaches , and we were fain toftand
upright and hold faftby the roof of the Coaches, bare leg'd too,
becaufe the Water came above the bottom of the Coaches to the
middle of the leg. The Oxen and Horfes could fcarce keep their
Heads above Water, and the Coaches being light, if Men hir'd
purpofely had not gone along in the Water to hold them fteady,
and break the courfe thereof by holding great flumps of wood on
that fide the Tide came furioufly in, without doubt, the Water
would have fwept them away. In this place on the left hand to
wards the land in the ftioift ground,we beheld at a diftance many
Fowls, as big or bigger then Turkies, go up and down, rather
running then flying. They told us, they were the fame which
the Portugals czW Taxar&j Flamencos^ from their bright colour 5
and I think, they are thofe of whofe beaks Mir Mahhamnred in
Sfahan , makes bow-rings for the King 5 although heerrone-
ouQy takes it for the beak of the Cocnos^ or Phoenix, which
good Authors defcribe,not a water Fowl,but rather an inhabitant
of high Mountains. Having at length pafs'd this dangerous
r . y y foard, and following our way we came at night to lodge at Cir
y* ambnfer^ the fame Town where we had lodg'd formerly. March
the eighth. We putourfelves upon the way again, and foarded
the little falt-water and at night arriv'd at Barocci^ and
were as formerly entertain'd in the Houfe of the Dutch. But
"*upon the way, before weenter'd the City, we faw a handfome
* ftrudure ftanding upon a famous Sepulehre of I know not well
c- j. ausyi who. but (eems to be fome great perfon's, and is worfhip'd by the
Moors as a facred thing. This Fabrick ispleafantly feated a-
mongft Trees, fomething elevated upon the fide of a little Lake,
or Great Ciftern. In the chief part of it, befides the principal
Sepulchre,which ftands apart in the moft worthy placejare many
other Sepulchres of white Marble, of an oblong form, with
j many carvings and works tolerable enough 5 'tis likely they are
the Tombs, either of the Wives and Children, or of the other
kindred of the Principal, becaule they feem all of the fame work
and time. Round this greater flrudture ftand other lefs, with
Sepulchres ot Moors in them, who caufe themfelves to be bu
ried there out of devotion to the place 5 whence I gather that
the principal Sepulchre is not onely of fome great perfbn or
Prince as it intimates, but alio of one that dy'd with fbme opini
on among the Moors of Sandtity. I know not who told me
that it was the Sepulchre of a famous Tartarian King, who came
to have dominion in thofe ptirts 5 but I credit not the Relation,
r •*/' ® ecau ^ I had it not from a good hand. the ninth. We
A departed from Barocci , ferrying over the River, and at night
good hand. March the ninth. We
v . . • f . - y in g the River, and at night
/ ^jodgd at Fmab) where we had quartered before as we went.
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