‘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’ [‎314] (335/508)

The Travels of Peter Delia Val!e,
with much Curiofity and Pleafure ) and alfo of all other Friends,
and after due thanks to Sig; Angela Crefcentio, and Sig: Andrei
Vnlice who accompani'd us to the Scoglio EwpferfjVulgarly call'd
Caiola, I went aboard and departed.
' LETTER XVI.
V 'J,'j : .]"} j j , . '.-j JkiSyii
from Rome, April 4. 1626.
AT length! am come to Rome, the place of my Nativity ^
but though I walk upon the banks of Tjiber and the feven
Hills 5 yet my mind runs wandring through and
Perfia, hoifesfail again to the wind, and roams as far as the Indi
an fhores, reviewing Manel, and Calecut. Whence em-
barqumg again in the great Dolphin, it reconducts me over Seas
and Lands, to my recent and late Peregrinations, and even to
the Rock cif F^p/e^whither now I return both with my Thought
and Pen. Being divided there, from Sig: Angelo, Sig: Andrea,
and the reft with exprefiions of much affeftion, whilft they in
another boat return'd towards N^p/ex, I with my Felluca'sfet
fail, and, ! c
tuOiljiit h I . . ' rrtn -p? w
PoJi uarios caJuSs poJi tot difcrimna rerum
Tendimm in Latium. i
In a few hour« 1 came tofcrocida, where I was entertain'd by
Sig: Antonid d' Antonii in his Garden, and not onely din'd there,
but in expeftation of a fit hour to depart, (becaufe I would not
touch at Gaeta, but intended to go diredly to Terracina) I alfo
lodg'd there all night. The Judge of Procida being inforind,
Whether by the Mariners or others I know not, of the Coffin of
iSitti Mctani which I had, according to the cheating tricks us'd in
the Kingdom of Naples, thought to get fomething from me upon
this occafion ^ and to make the cafe more heinous, he waited
fill mid-night when we were allafleep, (notwithftanding he
might have done it in the day-time when I walkt up and down
the whole Ifland with the Women) and at that unfeafonable time
caihe with many armed people to difquietus in theHoufe where
I Was, faying, that he would fee my goods, and flop the Coffin 5
with other fuch Language, . I, who was prepard for fuch en
counters, (hew'd him the good Bills which I had brought from
Naples, and, mihort, made him take as a favor a fmall pittance,
which I gave him out of refped to the Mafter of the Houfe where
I lodg'd.
c - March the fourteenth ? I left Fr^z^ before day, and putting
to Sea arriv'd with a pretty rough Sea at terracina, where Hora-
tioPagni} Steward of myHoufej to whom I had written from
Naples >