‘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’ [‎286] (307/508)

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whence, upon certain difcontents befallen him there 5 he had be-
t \ ken himlelf hither ) who vifited me not onely upomhisown
account 5 bat alio in the Name of Sig: Aleflandro Gontmt^ the
Venetian Conful in that I0and 3 who excus'd his not coming in
Perfonj for that he was juft then call'd away by the Cadhi^ upon a
certain bufineis.
September the fifth 5 Thefaid Venetian Conful with Sig: Parente
and fome others of his Houfe vifited me in the Ship: And though
I intended not togoafhore notwithftanding all his intreaties
and invitations, yet he refolutely refus'd to depart till I went
with him. Wherefore I obey'd him, and went onely with one
lervant, leaving F. Orftno, and the Women in the Ship. On the
fcalide I found fome few dwellings,and magazines or ftorehoufes
which are thofe that they properly call delle Saline^ from the Salt-
pits hard by ^ where the Turks have a fmallfquare Caftle ,witha
Plat-form, and Artillery to guard the Sea , but of little import
ance. Here taking Horfe,werode a little mile within Land to
another Village call'd where the Franks live for the moft
part, and there we alighted at the Conful's Houfe. And becaufe
it was yet early, after a little repofe, we went to the FraKcifcan's
Church, call'd Santa Maria , and there heard Mafs, which was
lung with the Office pro mortuis^ for the Soul of Sig; Giwin Ma-
via Parente, Brother to Sig: Francefco^ who the day before pa&'d
to a better Life. In the Evening, 1 vifited Sig: Dimitrio Todorini
in his own Houfe, and lodg'd in that of the Conful. I will not
. omit that the Venetians have alwayes a Conful at Cypnts, who is
not ot the Nobility, but of the Order of Eminent Citizens,
vhcreot many Secretaries of the Republick ufe to be, fo that
though the Conful of Cyprus be not dependent upon tiimofAkp-
po, ah Vice-Confuls are ^ yet he of Aleppo, as noble, and a more
principal Minifterin thefe parts, hath fomethiogof fuperiority
over this of Cyprus .
Septewhcr the liXth, This Morning I am return'd a Ship-bcard,
where I conclude this Letter, and commit it to F. Fra: Giovanni
di Segovia, a Spanifh retorm'd Fraftcijcan, who came hither in the
J ^ niC us trom Alexaxdretta^and is thelame Perlon who,
dilguia d in a lecular and Souldier-like garb, for fear of being
hiiiditd in his paflage by the Minifters, came ^ in com-
pjL\ ot r . F ra: Roaerigo di San Aii$kele,2i Dilcalceated Augujune^
and iVovincialot Manila) in the fame Ship with us homMafcdt
to Baffora, palling under the name of I'A/fiere, or Enfign, till he
jii r 1 \ u late zi Aleppo, where laying off hisdilguife, he refum d
his proper name and Fryer's habit ^ and becaufe the Provincial
cr Aianila, with whom he came intoiW/4. could not difpatch
his attairs but itay d behind at Aleppo > therefore he being defirous
1J ^efpeediiy at Rotne and Spain, in order to the affairs ot
iii Rel igion, is juit now departing, and hath promis d me to de
liver this to yo j, and to laluteycuin my name, as I do moft
lifiartily.
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