‘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’ [‎240] (261/508)

2^0 T^be Travels Peter Delia Valle,
could not be long before it arriv'd, (ince we came all together
from Ciaul at the fame time, he lent forth another Ship to meet
it, with order to inform them where he was, and prefently to re
turn and advertife him of his arrival;, that he might go out and
joyn with it. I could not be prefcnt at all the Converfation, be-
caufc T had my Ague and was in bed. Yet upon his coming, I
arole and drefs'd my felf to wait upon him, as 1 did fo long as I
was able ^ but at length I was forc'd to retire, and onlyreturnM
to iake leave of him when he departed. He made many com
plements to me, telling me that he had long fince had knowledg
of my perfon by fame, and (hould always be ready to ferve me
upon any occafion 5 with other like Civilities. I offer'd him to
(hew him the Pafs I had from the Viceroy, becaufe 1 had heard
him fay indifcourfe how ftridly the Viceroy had charg'dhimnot
to let any one pafs into the Terrifories of the Turks without his
licence 5 but he would not look upon it, and told me it needed
not for me, re-iterating that he was ready to ferve me 5 to which
civillanguage I anfwer'd in the beft terms I could, fignifying to
him how great a while I had been defirous to fee his perfon 3 and
to ferve him> The fame of his adions teftifi'd to me by the
mouths of his very enemies, and how he was ipoken of at Got
both by the Viceroy and all others 5 all which he receiv'd as
kindly as I did his obliging expreffions. At length he return'd to
his own Ship, taking with h\m Don Francefco ContignoCavdccio^
the. F. Provincial of Maniglia^ and divers others, to be enter-
tain'd there with him all the day 5 but I remain'd in bed with my
Ague.
yj the ninth, Having taken a Terfian Pilot which Ruy
Freira gave us, (becaufe the Portugal Pilots are not very fkilful in
the Perjian Gulph, by reafon of the multitude of (helves, and
theinconftancy of the winds, which make it needful to have a
Pilot of the Country) at night we put off from the abovefaid
Ifland fteering our courfe outwards. Almoft: at the fame time
Ruy Freira went with lome of his Ships, leaving order for the reft
to follow him as foon as they (bould be rcpnir'd 3 and by the in
ner way, to wit, by the channel between the Ifland and the
Continent, went I know not whereto take in water, intending
- afterwards to fee how matters were at Ormii%., where there rode
ten Ships ot War, Dutch znA Engljjh, partly under the Caftle,
and partly in Bender di Kontbru, having already put v^at relief
they pleas'd into the place.
February the tenth at evening. We arri v'd at a Bay which they
call de i limoni^ from the multitude of Lemons growing in a
Village hard by. And on the fifteenth of the fame Month, ha'ving
pafs'd the Hland cairdr^/>^,anotber call'd by the PortugalsPjloro,
j A that is,the Bail > and laftly that which they call C^^fjOnce famous
for its competition with Ormn^ both in War, and the Traffick
c ^^^but now altogether deiolated by war,we wereby a con
trary wind foic't to return fomwhat backwards, and caft anchor
» under