‘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’ [‎103] (124/508)

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from the mouth of the River Southward, went to land upon the
continent;, where Vitnla, Sway having been advertis'd of our
coming, expeded us under the (hade of certain little Hills and
Trees, of which all this Country is full. This was the firft time ,
that I let foot in any place of the Gentiles, where they bear fway
themfelves. SigiCio .-Fernandez (poke along while and alone with
Fztula Sinay, both of them fitting upon a Carpet fpread upon the
grafs 5 and at length, the difcourfe being ended, theAmbaflador
took boat again and return'd to Onor. Upon the way he told
us r that Vitulh Sin ay faid , that in either cafe, of his writing
again, or going in perfon to the Court, and waiting for a new
Anfwer, many dayes would be loft > therefore it feem'd beft to
him that we (hould all put our felveS upon the way without fur
ther waiting 5 and that to carry his (the Ambaflador's) Goods,
they had appointed ten Men according to his Ring's Order 5
wherefore Sig: Fernandez told us, he was refolv'd to go by all
means, and feeing the ten men allow'd him to carry his Goods
were not fufficient, they alone requiring twenty fivt, befides
thofe of the reft of his company, he would hire the reft at his
own charge, and rid himfelf of this perplexity* By this change
of opinion after this inteirview, I underftod thatVitula sinay had
fpoken in fuch fort that Sig: Fernandez perceiv'd that this cold-
nefs offending him greater accommodations for his journey,was
not fo much through the King s melancholy for his Wife's death,
and the prefent confulion of the Court, as for fomc other caule §
and the alledging lofs of time in waiting for a new Anfwer, was
but an excufe of Vitulk 5 bur, in fine, the truth could be no other,
then that they would not give him any greater Provifions, or
becaufe Venk-tapa was not well pleas'd with this Embaffie, 8cc.
And to confirm this, I know that before Sig: Fernandez depart
ed,from Goa^ Venl^tapa Naieka writ thither to his Ambaflador
VituVa Sinay^xhdiX. if they fent this Embaffie to urge the reftitution
of the State and Fortrefs of which he had lately taken AJ^ 1 -
from a certain fmall Indian-Prince, neighbour to Mangalor^ who /7
jiv'd under the Portugal's protedion, ( for whofe defence, two or / A ^
three years before, the Portugals had made warr With Venk:tapt
Naieka 3 and receiv'd a notable defeat by him) it was in vain,
and that Sig: Gio: Fernandez, (now firft known to him) might
forbear to undertake this journey, for that he was fully refolv'd
not to reftore it, nor yet to give feven thoufand Pagods yearly
to that Prince, as he had promis'd upon agreement, if he went
not to live out of thofe Territories taken from him either in Goa
or in Magalor^ox elfewhere,he pretending at leaft a purpofe to re
turn to live with that annuity in the lands,once his own, private
ly, in hopes,perhaps, to raife fome new commotion one day. So
ihatVenktapa Naieka, knowing that one of the principal bufinef-
fes of this Embaflie was that of the Prince of Banghel, which little
pleas'd him ? and feeing alfo that this year the Ships from Portu- / V
gal were not yet arriv'd, which every year fetch Pepper out
of