‘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’ [‎151] (172/508)

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December the fecond ? This Morning I went to fee Olazd,
which is about the fame diftance from as Banghel is, " y
but the contrary way towards the South 3 andftandson the
other fide of a great River, which was to be pafs'd over by
boat. The Queen wasnothere 5 and feldom is, but keeps her
Court commonly in another place more within land ^ yet I would
not omit to fee Qlaz.a, the rather becaufe in the Portugal Hi (lories
it giveB name to that Queen, as being that Land of hers which is v
neareft and beft known to the Portugals^^nd perhaps, the richeft # ? ' 2
and fruitfulleft which (he now enjoyes. I found it to be a fat
foil, the City lying between two Seas, to wit, the Maln-fea and
the Bay, upon an arm of Land which the Port inclofes 5 fo that
the fituationis not onely pleafant, but might alfo be made very
ftrong if it were in the hands of people that knew how to do iti
It is ail open, faving on one fide towards the mouth of the Haveri^
between the one Sea and theother,where there is drawn a weak
wall with a ditch and two inconfiderable baftions^ Tht Bazar
is indifferent, and befides neceflhries for provifions, affords
abundance of white and llrip'd linnen cloth, which is made in
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the Towns end is a very pleafant Grove, and at the end thereof
a great Temple, handfbmely built for this Country, and much
efteem'd. Olaza is inhabited confufedly, both by Gentiles who
burn themfelves, and 2\{ohy Malabar-Moors, About a mile off
Southwards, ftands the Royal Houfe or Palace amongft the:
above-faid Groves, where the Queen refides when (he comes
hither fbmetimes. 'Tis large, enclos'd with a wall and trench,
but of little moment. In the firft entrance it hath a Gate with
an open Porch, where the Guard is to ftand 5 and within that a
great void place like a very large Court, on the far fide where
of ftands the Houfe, whofe infide I faw not, becaufe the Court
Was not there 5 yet for this place, it feem'd to have fomethingof
wild Majefty ^behind,it joynsto a very thick wood, ferving both
for delight and fecurity in time of neceflity. The way from the
Palace to the City is almoft wholly befet with Houfes. Having
feen as much as I defir'd, I ftay'd not to dine, but return d to
Mangalori there being always a paflage-boat ready to carry
people backwards and forwards. ^
December the third. Arriving not timely enough to bear Mafs
in the Church DelRofario, I went to San Fra^cefco^htxe I heard
Mafs^nd a tolerably good Sermonpmade by an old Father call'd
Francefco dos Neves* In the Evening, I prepar'd to go to fee the
Queen of Olaza at her Court, which was the defign ofthislitlc
peregrination. And not finding Sigt Paolo Sodrino my friend at
Mangalor^ I was help'd to a boat by Sig:!^ Gomes a Native of
Cananor^hut who had liv'd long at Mangathr.l went up the River
which comes from the Territorie« of Olaza^ but another more
Northern, different from the above-mentiond little one, over
which I pafs'd by a bridg to Manghel^ and falling into the Port