‘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’ [‎278] (299/508)

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came to my familiarity. Wc fat together a good while in the
Synagogue amongfb his fellow-Jews., beholding their Ceremo
nies 5 and 3 after I had feen enough^ 1 went away and left Baruch
at his devotions. As 1 went home I pafs'd by theCarvanferdi,
(or Market) of Silk, as they call it, becaufe in times paft. Silk
and other Perfian Commodities were brought thither more then
to other places, but now it is little frequented. Here buying
foipe few things of certain Vzbeihi T artars, newly come to Alep
po with a Caravan ^ I enquir'd concerning their Countries, and
th^y told me, that no Tartars are call'd Vzkeghi, but thofe of
the Countries of Balch, Buchara, and Sarntaca9td^ who, at this
day , are divided under two Princes, Brethren ^ one whereof
hath his Seat at Balch, and is call'd Nedhir Mtthhammed Chan^ on
whom depends an inferior Prince, nam'd Bahadur, fwhichfig-
nifies Gallant or Stout ) and firnam'd, Jelan Tuft, from hislpoyl-
ing'and killing his Enemies in war, for in their Language Jefan
1 ligqifies to Spoil, and Tufc xo Kill. The other Brothernart'd
Imanculi Chan, hath under him Tofc-Kmd^
Endigtan or Endigan, with other Territories, and both of them
border up'on thofe of the Perfian Empire, and reign in the Coun
tries , anciently cali'd Sogdiana, BaUriana, and perhaps alfo
Hireania , but by the Moderns, Maurenucher, and 7«r-
ktjian. The fame day after dinner I took leave of the Conful,
with all my other Friends, and was by his Servants, and many
others of the Italian Nation, accompany'dout of the Cityi
1V. Before we mounted our Camels, I was defirous to fee, in the
Suburbs ofJleppo, the Churches of the Oriental Chri ^ians 5 which
ftand in a Street call 'd Giudpda, not from the Jews, asfomewho
Ikill not of Languages erroneoufly imagine, but from the Ara-
bick word Gedida, which fignifies Nea? 5 perhaps, becaufe this
place of i he Suburbs was built more lately then others. Here, a
little out of the Street on the right hand, I found four Churches
all together, led unto by one Gate onely from the Street, but
(the place being fpacious enough within) conveniently divided
and ieparated about the Court or Yard ; Two of them belong'd
to the Armenians, the greater (a fair one indeed) calVd Santi
guarant a, or the forty Saints and the lefs, Delia Madonna, w.
our Lady. One of the other two call'd Sanlsicolo, beiongcl
to the Greeks^ and the other, which is the leaft of all, to the
Maronite Catholicks, call'd Sant* Elia. In another place a good
diftant from this, I faw alone by it felf another Church, han-
iome and large for the Country, built after our manner, with
three Naves or Ifles upon Pillars^ it belong'd to the Syrian jaco-
bites," and was call'd Sitaa AJJcdi, or Santa Maria. This Church
hath adjoyning to it a good Houfc, with a little Garden and
other conveniences according totheufeof the CoyntryjWherein
lives the Patriarch of thejacobits, calld for whom 1 had
brought hom Bajjbra a Letter of F. Bafilio di San Francejco, adif-
ca.'ciated Carmelite, wherein he invited him to a mutual friend-
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