![‘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’ [‎235] (256/508)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023517141.0x000001/212.d.1._0256.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "‘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’ [‎235] (256/508)")
‘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’ [235] (256/508)
The record is made up of 1 volume (480 pages). It was created in 1665. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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LETTER X.
From Baffora, May .so. 162^.
OUr Ship being ready to depart for Eafforj 5 and being to
touch by the way about Ormuzja order to confign fome
things to the General Ruj pertaining to the fer-
vice of the Armada; after all the reft that were to go were im-
barqu'd, ( amongft which were Don Francefio Contigno Covacio,
who intended for Ormui. i two bare-footed Carmebtes^who were
for Btffora-, and the F. Provincial of in the Philippine
Iflands, who was paffing into EI went aboard with my
people at night, January the fix and twentieth. Yet the Veflel
went not off till the next day, and with no favourable wind we
fail'd about fix Leagues, carting Anchor at night nbtfar from
the (bore. * . /.m»j in
January the eight and twentieth5^ Having fail d a while, a con
trary wind fore d us to Anchor again 5 and indeed in this Periian
Gulph, the wind is (b inconftant, and with-all fo itrong, that 11
it happen to be contrary, there is little good to be done by con-
teftins: againftit in this narrow Sea 3 but thole thatlail in it niuit
in fuch cafe either caft Anchor, or be driven backwards. We
anchor'd fo near land, and in fo little water, under a place call d
Sibo, about feven Leagues from that the contrary wind
increafmg, and the Anchor not fufticing to retain the Ship, we
were in great danger of being fplit upon the fhore, to the lols ot
all our goods and perhaps lives too, the Coaft being very craggy,
and the Sea extremely rough. We were fo near being loft, that
the Ship almoft toucht the ground ^but a (mall M, hanging
on the rope which runs from the top of the Maft to the Stern,and
is call'd by the Portugal's Sabaco fav'd.us * which fail alone we
could make ufe of, to keep offtheftiore^ though it ein £ a »
and the VelTel heavy, itfufficd not to move it much. Ihe .4-
rabians were already gathered together m great number upon
the fhore to get the booty, and perhaps alfo totake our perlons
in cafe the Ship (hould be fplit, for in thefe troublefom times of
war they were here but little friends to the Portugals of Majcat.
But at length, asitpleas'd God, by the help of Oars and the
diligence ofSig. franc. Contigno Covacio (who in many things
fnpply d the ignorance or negligence of other Officers of the
Ship J we turn 'd-aboat the Stern of the Ship the Sea, and being
deliver'd from imminent danger ^ had time to hoife the Tnn ec
to the wind, as before we could not, becaufe it was on the other
fide of theMaft,which they call Under -the-wind and could not be
brought about without more time then our fudden and prelent
danger permitted. After which, becaufe the win o requir ji
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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 . Translated from the Italian by George Havers. A dedication, written by Havers to the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery, precedes the main text. The second part of the volume, A Voyage to East-India with a description of the large territories under the subjection of the Great Mogol , was written by Edward Terry, and not, as the frontispiece suggests, by Sir Thomas Roe.
Publication details: Printed by J Macock for Henry Herringman, London, 1665.
There are pencil and ink annotations in margins of many pages in the volume. The index at the end of the volume is handwritten, and contains entries for: Persia, Portuguize [Portuguese], Surat, Ormuz [Hormuz], Cambay [Khambhat], and Shah Abbas.
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