‘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’ [‎326] (347/508)

326 A Voyage fo E A S T-IN DI A, &€.
/bi b 'J 16 hei s hc of the T-i^rd. in Cornwall, and, that day, for thTt
//, took our laft fight of our Country. x
^HasrcAi // This wind was fdvourable to us till the fixteehth day at night
,/ ,/ ^ whi r ch ,ime 2 mo , ft Jarful ftorm met us, we being then in the
Bay ot Tortugul^ whole violence continued five whole days and
nights; and that Tempeftwas the moft lively and real Com
ment, that ever I obferved, on that place recorded in
IO7.23. J
" ^ T h r twenty eighth day, We had fight of the Grand
■ led the Peai ut,taln ln the Itlando f Twerifa, commonly cal-
This over-grown rife of Earth, isin (hape like to a Pyramis
or u gar-J oat, circled, and wrapt about with many wreaths ot
clouds, which encompafs it by feveral diftances; as firft earth
then clouds, above Which the earth appears again, then clouds
again, then earth; the top of it being of fuch an immenfe height
wannnaybeas truly faid of this, as Virgil. Ectog. 5. writes of
Candidus infuetum miratur limen Olympic
Suh pedibttjqi videt mbes^ & fidera
' i"'"' : U'V ' v : *i Xi J rl '■ ' f i [ ; • ;
So beautiful, it Heavens unwonted Ipires
And Clouds, and Stars under its feet admires.
This Peak of Temrifa, in a clear day, may befeen fif the
Manners report truth) more than forty leagues at Sea. Thefe
Illands lie twenty ieight Degrees of North-Latitude.
_ The one and thirtieth being Eafter-day, We pafled under the
7,4 I ro P' ck 0 l C *" ce r- A nd the feventh of Jfril, the Sun was in its
r ^r/ ^', . at Noon-day direftly over our heads, which
we found by this infallible Demonftration made by a Qender
kmfe,or long Need e,fet upright,which did caft no Ihadow. The
hun in this courfe like the Equmodtial, divides the Globe of the
Heavens in two equal parts 5 and in this Motion arifethfo di
rectly or upright, that thereisbuta very little time 'twixt the
3^ a f nd J the , appearance of the body of the Sun in the
morning; for tis dark immediatly before the Sun then appears ;
Hplif f! 3 ln u eniDg pr f fentl y after the Sun hath left the
cxtShwt. Herewewere Calmed fourteen days, enduring
/od ^ri/ the fixteenth we met with winds, (we being'then aeainft
the Turnldo^ which the Mariners call
the Turmdoet ; very ftrange Gu(hindeed,like thofe
on the fliore yEfi. a .^ t; " J>5
„ n , ' 10 e fel f-oppofing blafts we there had, were fo variable and
uncertain, that fometimes within the fpace of one hour, all the
JUT e r ral Cwhich are obferved info many points
ot the Compafs) will blow, fo that if there be many Ships in
company,you mayobfervethemallto fail fo many feveral ways,
and