‘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’ [‎100] (121/508)

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Ciftern built round with ftone ^ and this being fill'd, it runs out
with a ftream watering the neigbouring-fields. The water is
hot, to wit 5 not cold £ and therefore the Country-people come
frequently to bathe themselves in it for pleafure. The Ciftern is
fquare, every fide being five or fix yards, and the water would
reach to a man's neck 3 but by reafon of the ruinoufnefi of the
walls in fome places, it is not very clean. Within it are fmall
fifties, which ufe to bite fuch as come to fwim there, yet wixh-
out doing hurt, becaufe they are fmall 5 and the place being low,
is confequently, (hady, and lb affords a plealant ftation at all
times. The have this Ciftern in Devotion, and call it
Ram-tirt) that is. Holy Water, Water of Expiation, 8cc. The
Tortugals C2\\\t O Tan que da Pedre, that is, the Ciftern of the Fa
ther, or Religious perfon, from the Gentile-Monaftick who ufes
to remain there. We ftript our Selves, and fpent a good while in
fwimming here. The fields about (Mor through which we pafs'd
were very pleafant Hills and Valleyes, all green, partly with
very high herbage, partly \vith wood, and partly with Corn.
C &ober the one and twentieth, I took the Altitude of the Sun,
and found it diftant from the Zenith 24. degrees 20. minutes,
upon which day the Sun, according to my manufcripts, was in
the 2 7 th degree of and declin'd from the ^quinodial to
/ ? , the South 10. degrees 24^ 56 // ,which deduced from 24. degrees
^c/, in which I found the Sun, there remain 13. degrees 55',
4 // 5 and precifely fo much is Oner diftant from the iEquinoftial
towards the North. In the Evening the Ambaflador VitHU
Stnay^ who was lodg'd beyond the River more South of Onor^
came to the City to vifit the Captain in the Fort. The Captain
with all the Citizens, and S\g: Cio: Fernandez^ with us of his
Company, went to meet and receive him at the place where he
landed 5 three pieces of Ordnance being difcharg'd whei^ he en-
tred into the Fort. Ottober the four and twentieth, was the Da-
vhli, or Feaftof the Indian-Gentiles, and, I believe, was the
fame that I had feen the laft year celebrated in Bender di Combrit
in ?erfia : The fame day, if I miftake not in my reckoning, the
Moors began their new year 1033. In the Evening, I werft to fee
another great Town of Gentiles, feparate from that ftands upon
the Sea near Onor,^ and they call it the Villa de Brahmani, be-
caulemoftof the inhabitants are Brachmans, whereas they that
live by the Sea-fide are Fiftiermen, and of other like profeffion.
This Town of the Brachmans ftands about a Canons-ftiot within
land , remote from the Fortrefs of Onor towards Hordete or
Greco, The inhabitants keep Cows or BufFalls, and live upon
other Trades. In the entrance of the City is built for publick
ufe a handfome fquare Ciftern, or Receptacle for Water, each
fide of which contain'd about a hundred of my paces in length,
'tis fiird with rain water,which lafts for the whole year.
O^erthe five and twentieth, came NewstoOzz^r how on
Thnrfday night laft, O&ober the nine and twentieth, Venkctapk
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