‘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’ [‎150] (171/508)

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Fort; our Lady DelRofarw, fir word, a, and SanFraHctfi,
without. Yet in Mangalor there are but three Ecdefiaftical Per-
fons in all ^ two Francifcan Fryers^ and one ^icar Pnelt, to
whole charae, with very fmall revenews belong all the other
Churches. I went not afliore becaufe it was night, but llept in
Niroew/'cr the nine and twentieth,Early in the Morning I land
ed at Maw dor, and went together with Sig:
and' others of our Ship to dine in the Houleot Sig.Afcentio
feira, a Notary of the City. After which, I was provided of
an empty Houfe belonging to a Kinf-man of his, by Sigi Zaokm
Sodrino 5 who was married in Mangalor 5 and came for Go^
in our Ship. The next night the Fleet departed bom Com,
but I remain'd in Mangalor with intention to go and iec the
Qiieen of , i Si
November the thirtieth, After hearing ot Mais in the Church
Del Rdfario, I vifited the Captain of Mangaler^ not in the Fort,
but in a cover d place without the Oate 3 which is built to re
ceive the cool Air of the Sea, and where he was then in con-1.
verfation. He was an old Man all gray, by Name Sig: Fero Co
mes Pafagna.
The hrft ot December jn the Morning I went to lee Ba^ghel.bf
the Indians more corredly call'd Bangher^or Baxghervari > tisa
mile or little more diftant from Mangalor ^towards the South and
upon the Sea ^ and the King that rul d there., and in the circum
jacent lands being at this day driven out, tis lubjcCt to Venk?
• taf-a Naieka. A Mufket-fliot without ;ifc/^ < g4ftr,on that fide,is a
fmall River which is pafs'd over by a ruinous llonc bridg 3 and may
^ / likewife be forded ^ 'tis the boundary of the ffr^^^/j-jurifdidi-
/ try: t */ on< The a bove-faid mile isthrough cultivated fields, and then
you come to Banghel, which is a rich foil, and iometimes better
peopled then at prefeut ^ whence theHoufes are poor Cottages
of earth and ftraw. It hath been but one ftrait (freer, of good
length, with Houfes and Shops continu'd on both fides^and
many other (heds diipers'd among the Palme-to's. The King's
Houleftood upon a rais'd ground, almoft like a F ort, but is now
wholly deftroy'd , fo that there is nothing left ftanding but the
potfs of the Gate ^ for when Fenk^taph Naiekf took this Territo
ry , he demolifti'd what-ever was ftrong in it. The Bazbr , or
Market-place remains, although not fo ftor'd with goods as it
was in the time of its own King , yet it affords what is neceffary,
and muchor Ftffe/, whereof they make Merchandize,fend-
ing the fame into divers parts,that of this place being better then
others^ here arcalfoin the Bazar, fome Gold-fmiths who make
knives and cizzersadornM with Silver very cheap 5 and other like
toys, of which I bought fome, and having feen all that was
to be feen return d on foot, as 1 came, though (bmewKat late,
to Mangalor, .
-.•'rah December
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