‘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’ [‎274] (295/508)

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Jugtifi the twelfth. The great Caravan of Bajfora arriv'd *tA-
leppo I it fet forth a confiderable time before us, but had encoun
ter d fo many difficulties intheDefart, that our fufferings were
^ pleafures in refpeft of theirs.
the fixteenth, I wasinformMby Sig. Gio. Maria deBo-
»^ 5 of many paffages of the Turkifti affairs 5 which as appertaining
to things before, or hereafter to be mention'd in thefe LetterSj
and to the full knowledgof the hiftory of things in my time, I
will not omit to relate in this place. He gave me certain intel
ligence how Sultan Mufiafa, Brother of the deceafed Sultan Ah-
md, who reign'd in Cenftantinople at my being there, reign d,
and wasdepos'd for an Ideot (^as really he isj twice? namely
cnce before, 'and once after Sultan Othman. How Othmanj
who was a Prince fufficiently odd humor'd, being ill-bent againft
the Chriftians, and very defirous to make an Expedition againft
Rome after the bad fuccefs befallen him in Poland, was ilain by
his own Grandees, who would not fuffer his government, which
was fomewhat rigorous and violent : and that, asa (ign of his be
ing llain, he that llew him, carri'done of his ears to Mnfia-
fas Mother, who was yet living, and was likely to be well-
pleas'd therewith. That it was not true that the faid Othman
in the beginning of his Reign had put to death gfizkgM'aji offo
great authority in the time of Sultan Ahmed his Father, becaufe
he had too much power,having been the man that depos'd Muftt-
fa, and.placd Othman himfelf in the Throne 5 but indeed he
banifht him from Confiantinople, fending him into a kind of exile
to live privately in JEgyft ^ from whence he was afterwards re-
call'd by the prefent Emperor, and reftor'd to his ancient favour,
and at length dy'd of a difeafe at Conjiantinople. How theprefent
Emperor was Son of Sultan Amed, and sultana
Chtojej of whom in the time of Awed Ihaveelfewhere in thefe
made long mention 5 And that Alurad was not theeldeft Son of
Chiofe, whowasfeenat Conjtantinofle 'm my time, and \tas of
theiame age with Otbman > but was a Son much younger, that
elder having been put to death by Otbn /an, when he defign'd to
go into Poland, How the faid Sultana Ch /ofe was ftill living,
and of more authority then ever, her Son now raigning
iince the death of (wherein perhaps fhe had ahacd. be-
cauie he was not her Son but the Son of another Woman) after
the lecond depofition of Mujiafa^ and indeed I fore-faw many
} car^ago, that the laid Chioje, having one day remov'd all other
pietenders would at length by her wifdom and the power fhe
had in Court bring the Scepter into the hand of one of her Tons,
^accordingly fhe hath done. How the Government of the
Turks was very ill-manag d in this nonage of the Emperor and
ail their affairs grew worfe and worfe^ becaufe there being no
head, there was likewife no obedience, ail the Miniftersdid
what tneypleabd, every one more or lefs according as he had
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