‘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’ [‎179] (200/508)

J^o tfce EAST-INDIES.
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afterwards very friendly to me^nd with whom I fpent many days
in good converfation. » v
December the nineteenth^ We departed from Man gal or ^ and
wentformoftof all;, becaufe our Ship was Captain of the Van-
suard. This day we pafs'd by a high Hill difcoverd within
Land, call'd Monte Deli ^ and the next day, ( December the
twentieth) by another 5 calld Monte Ferntojb, At night,
anchor'd under Cananor, but enter'd not the Port 3 having fail'd ^
from Mangalor hither always Southwards eighteen Leagues.
December the one and twentieth. Once in the Morning, and
once in the Evening, we met with Faroes^ which are very light ^
Ships of the Rovers, of whom this Coaft was full, for
at Mangalor ends the Province of Canark , and that of Malabar
begins: We made ready our Arms both times to fight them, but
they fled from us, and recover'd the mouths of the Rivers,
whereof that Coafl: is full, where by reafon it was their own
Territory, and well guarded in thofe narrow and difficult places^
we could not purfue them to take them ^ onely we difcharg'd
fomeGuns againft them atdiftance tono purpofe, which were
anfwerd from that Land with the like 5 we might eafily have
attempted, if not to take that which we fawin the Evening,
yet atleaft to (hatter it a far off with our Cannon, if the Gene
ral had not had regard to the Land they recover'd, which be-
long'd to the Samorl, to whom upon account of the Peace in agi
tation, he was willing to have refpedh At night we came to
Anchor under Calecutj which is twelve Leagues Southwards be
yond Cananor,
December the two and twentieth. Early in the Morning the
SamorVs two Men landed at Calecut, and wkh them a Portugal
common Souldier, but well clad and attended, whom the Ge
neral feht to the Ring with the Vice-Roy's Anfwer, which was ^
That the Vice-Roy was contented to treat of a Peace, and
Would gladly conclude it % but on condition that the Samort'
made Peace too with the King of Cocin^ the Tortngals Confede- /
rate, whom it was not fit to leave out of the (aid Peace , and
the rather, becaufe the greateft differences between the
^/x and the Samort were touching the King oi Cocin^ whom
the Portngals Juftly defended as their faithful Friend, and had
alwayes, to the dammageofthe-S^wr^, his perpetual Adverfary,
much fupported 5 That the Samorl were contented to make
Peace with both, he fhould fend his AmbafTadors to Goa with
power to treat of the conditions, and they (hould be receiv d
very well. Within a fhort time the Portugal return d to the Fleet;
for the City of Calecut ftands upon the Ihore, and the Samort s
Royal Palace is not far off: And together with the Portugal^ the
Samort fent to the General a Portugal Boy, eight or ten years old,
QdW'&CiccO) who in certain Revolutions of had been
taken Prifoner, and was brought up in his Court 5 he fent him
well clothM. and accompany'd not onely with many perfon^
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