‘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’ [‎216] (237/508)

Ihe 'Travels Peter Delia Valle,
day before arrived at Goa in a Shallop which had been long ex-
pefted and judg'd loft, having been (even moneths in coming
from Mafcat, He faidj he came about Affairs of his Order and
the Covents of Terfta, ( for befides that which I left at Sphahan
they have fince made one at Sciraz, and another at Bajjora^ and
daily multiply ) yet with-allit was rumored, that he wasfent by
the King of Ferfia, to treat with the Vice-Roy about According
the matters of Orwnz ^ and I believe it, although he fpoke no
thing oi it> himfelf^ otherwife;, me-tbinks 'tis not likely they
would have let him come out of Perfta. without the King's ex-
prefs Licence, or that the King would have granted it in time of
Warr 3 unlcfshehad come about (bme particular bufinefsof his.
He informed me that all my friends inPerfla were well 5 and fo did
a Letter of IT; Fra: Giovanni to his Provincial at Goa^ wherein
mention was made of me, giving me intelligence of the well -fare
of all my Friends, and how Sitti Laali my Coufin, Had brought
forth a Son whom (hehadnarnd Avedik, from Chogia Avedif^
his Father's Uncle 5 which News was ftak, for I knew it before
my coming out of Terftci^ and indeed, all the Letters F. Manod
brought wereot a very old date 5 to me he brought none, be-
cauie my t riends there conceivd I was gone out of India into
By rope,
May the feven and twentieth, A Ship of the Portugal Fleet
that was coming from Mozambique arrived in the Port of Mor-
mogon j it entred not into the River of Goa 0 becaufe the mouth
of the River, by reafon of the latenefs of thefeafon was unfecure,
and began to be flopped 5 for every year all the mouths of the
Rivers and Ports of this Coaftare fill'd with fand during the time
of Rain,^ wherein the Weft wind blows vef-y tempeftuoufly. and
are open'd again in September when the Rain ends. The Port of
Mormogon, as I have elfwhere faid 3 is in the fame Iflandof £7^
in the other mouth of the more Southern RivetjWhere fbmetimes
old ftood, by which goods are conveyed by Boat from
the SnT the Clty5 bUt by a longer Way:> goin S behind rounci
[May the twenty eighth, In the Evening at the time of Am
Maria, the Bells of almoft all the Churches of Goa , faving that
0 u j tS:> run § ^ or Beatification of two Fryers,
News 1 San Domt2ico i whereof this Ship had brought
; ^ the twenty ninth. Another Ship of the Fleet ar-
,nved and within two or three dayes after, all the other Ships
cxpecred bom Mozambique-, and in one of them, the Tefuit de-
Patriarch into Ethiopia , whither he with two Biftiops,
^hereof ope was dead by the way, and many other Jefuits, was
Gv f th e inftance of the King of the fame Country, who, they
ia>, is called ^ aghed, and profefles himfelf a Roman-Ca-
.^ohek already, mth great hopes of reducing all that Ringdoin
^ e hurchm fhort time. As for the progrefs which the Je-
fuits