‘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’ [‎99] (120/508)

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Into the EAST-INDIES,
but ordinarily there is but one Prieft in Onor, who is the Vicar
of the Arch -Bi(bop of Goa^ and therefore in other religi«
ous perfons alwaysgo thither. Out of the Fort, in the Country,
is the Bazar or Market, bat a fmall one and of little conhderati-
on 5 nothing being found therein but what is barely necedary for
fuftenance of the inhabitants. Our Ambaffador Sig: Gio: Fer
nandez lodg'd with us 5 not in the Fort, but without in the Houfe
of a private man ^ and, I believe, it was becaufe he had rigor
ous Orders from the Vice-Roy againft the Captain 5 and Com-
miflion to redrefs many Diforders which he had committed in
his Government, elpecially to compofe matters between him
and the people of the Country^ as alfo between him and the
Vicar betwixt whom there were great Diforders, the fault of
which was charg'd upon the Captain. When Vfewerefetledin
our Houfe, fir ft the Vicar c^W'dF .Henrico Rabete^nd afterwards
the Captain call'd Sig r Don dfyrijioforo Fernandez Francifco, with
almoft all the principal perfons of the place 3 vifited Sig: Gio: Fer-
nandez, who prefently beginning to treat of bufinefs , and pre-
fenting'to the Captain the Vice-Roys Letters and Orders, the
Captain being terrifi'd therewith on the one fide 3 and on the
other, oblig'd by the civil terms of Sig: Fernandez, forthwith
offer'd himfelf ready to give the Vice-Roy fatisfaftion in what
ever he commaded,and began immediately to put the fame offer
ineffeft} relpafing one-whom he held Prifoner, and performing-
other things Which Sig: Fernandez appointed him. otioberthe
nineteenth, Vhe Captain inviting the Ambaflador and all the
company to^dine in the Fort,we went firft to vifit him, and after
wards to hear Mafs in Saint Catharines Church, which is the
Vicar's See 5 which being over, the Ambaffador vifited a Gentle
woman who was a Kinfwoman of the Vicar s, and then retir ci
in private with the Captain, not without maniteft fignes that his
re -pacification was rather upon neceffity then out of good-will.
Caufa Mali tanti, fce/nina fola fnit. 1 he original of moft of the
Diforders between the Captain and the Vicar , they fay, was
occafion d by the Captain's Wife, who had banifh'd out of Oner
a fervant of his whom he had employ d as his Inftrument to other
Women,and who had been formerly punifh'd for the fame fault.
In the mean time we walk'd up and down, but faw nothing
worth mentioning 5 and at at dinner-time we went to the Cap
tain's Houfe where we all din d, namely, Sig: Gio: Fernandez
the Ambaffador, the Chief Commander of the Fleet, call'd
Heftor Fernandez, F. Bartolomeo Barrofo the Ambaffadors Chap
lain, Sig: Conjaho Carvaglio and I, who came in the Ambada-
dor's Company. The Entertainment wasfumptuous and very
well ferv'd , dinner ended, we return'd to our Houfe.
OBober the twentieth. In the Evening the Chaplain and I
went in a Palanckino a mile out of Onor to fee a fine running wa
ter, which ifluing out of the Earth in a low, or rather hollow
place, as it were the bottom of a Gulph, falls into a Tank?, or
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