‘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’ [‎335] (356/508)

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piuft needs make tk^t place beyond meafure u^cprnfortabk tp
thefe moft wretched men. To this may be added their warn of
provilionj having nothing but dry Biiket, and no great quantity
pf that % To that they lived with huagry bellies, without any
place fit for repofey wkiioki^ any quiet reft, for they could not
choofe but fleep in fear ContinuaHy s And what outward condi
tion coiild make men more miferable than this? Yetnotwith-
ftanding all they fuffered, thele Ce^ven vile wretches all Jiv'd to
be made examples afterward of Pivii^e Juftice. For after they
had continued iujand endured this Cad place, for thefpace offevje
or ( ik monewbs 3 and they ware grown all even almoft njad, by
reafon of tlieir feveral preffing wants and extremities > it pleafed
God by providence, \tQ bring an .Englifh Ship into that road,
returning for EtigUnd four of ithefe feven men being impati-
ept of any more hours ftay there, immediatily after that Ship
was come in, made a Float with the ruins of their fplit boat 3
which they had faved together, and with other wood which
jhey had gotten thither, and with rave I'd and untwifted boat-
ropes, faftned as well a? they could ail together (foi thereare
no fuch fudden Teachers? and laftru&ers as Extremities are.)
Thefe four got upon the Floaty which"-they had thus prepared,
and poizing it as well jhey could by their federal weight, hoped
J)y the benefit of their Qaxs, andtoengthjofthe Ty<ie (that then
ran quick toward the Ship newly arrived) they might recover iti
but this their expeftation failed them ; for it being late in the
day when they made this attempt, and they not difcovered by
the Ship, which then road a good way up in the Bay^ before
they could come up near unto , her, theTyde returned, and fo
carry'd them back into the main Sea, where they all periftied
miferably. The day following, the Ship fent a boat to the
Iflandj which took thofe three yet furvivinginto her,as the other
four might have been, if they could but have exerciicd their pa
tience for one night longer. Thefe furvivers came aboard the
Ship, related all that had befallen to their fellows.5 but thefe
three, notwkhftanding all their former miferies, when they were
taken into the Ship, behaved themfelves fo lewdly as they re
turned home-wards, that they were very often put into the
Bilboms, 01 Ship-ftocks, in the way returning^ and otherwiie
many times puniihed for their great and (everal raifdemeanors s
At laft the Ship being fafely returned into the Downs, (he had not
been there at an Anchor above 3. hours, but thefe three Villains
got on Ihore, and they had not been aftiore above three hours,
but they took a f//r/e, and a very few hours after were appre
hended and all taken for that Faft, and (iiddenly after that, their
Very foul ftory being related to the hord Chief Juflice, and they
looked upon as men altogether incorrigible, and uncapable of
amendment bylefler corrections, by his fpecial Warrant were
executed upon their former Condemnation (for which they were
banilhed not to xeturn hither* again, but never pardoned) near
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