‘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’ [‎341] (362/508)

A Voyage to EAST-INDIA, &c.
faft betwixt the two bones thereof, grating there upon an Arte- f
ry, which feemed by hh complayning to afflid him fo much 3 ' "
that it made him take very little notice of all the reft of his ^
Hurts^ it being moft true of bodily pains^ that the extremity of
a greater pain will not fuffer a Man much to feel and complain of
that which is lefs 5 as that tormenting pain of the Tooth-ack^
makes a man infenfibleof the akingof his Head 5 and when the
Gout and Stone furprize the Body at once together, the tor*
ture by the Gout is as it were loft in the extremity of the
Stone, t
^ And thus was our New Commander welcomed to his Autho- h
rity 5 we all thought that his wounds would very fuddenly have Cr ^"
made an end of him, but he lived till about fourteen moneths ' ^
after, and then dyed as he was returning for England, I told you
before, that this man fuffered not alone by the fcattered pieces
of that broken fhot 3 for the Malier of the shty had a great piece
of the Brawn of his Arm ftrook off by it, which made him like-
wife unferviceable for a time, and^r^e other of the common
failers received (everal and dangerous hurts by it likewife.
The Captain and Mafter both thus difabied, deputed their
Authority to the chief Mafter's mate, who behaved himfelf re-
folutely and wifely 3 fb we continued one after
the other, (hooting at oiir Adverfary as at a But^ and by three of
the Clock in the Afternoon had (hot down her Main-maji by ttie
board, her her Fore -top -Maft : And moreover, had
iriade fuch breaches in her thick fides, that her cafe feemed fo de-
fperate that (he muft exthtvyield or ferijh. Her Captain thus di-
ftreffed ftood in for the (hore, being not far from the Ifland of
Gaziaia j we purfued as far as we durft without hazard of Ship-
wrack, then we fent off a Boat with a flag of Truce to fpeak with
him. He waved us with another, upon which M r Connick^ our ^ c
chief Merchant imployed in that fervice came up to them, and
being invited, entred their Ship, where he was civilly ufed5 and
there he delivered this MeHage to the chief Commander^ and his
Company, that he had brought them Life and Feace^ if they
would accept it 5 withall telling them, that they had deferved
fo well by their undaunted valour, that they would put them-
felves into our hands, they fhould be entertain'd with all Honour
and Helped. How the ordinary fort in xhzCaraque were taken
with this proffer, I know not 5 yet all this would not work upon
that high-refolv'd Commander> who like Fahricius in Tully could
not be turn'd, in the leaft meafore, from his former and firtt Re-
folutiort.
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So he contemning thehe could not 5 or like a
prun'd hedge which grows ftron ger by c utting^ anfwered our
Mefienger thus. That no infelicity (hould make alter hisfirft
Refolution, and therefore muft not be talk't out of the Ship 5
That he would ftand off to Sea, if poffibly he could, and fight us
again 5 and then if pre or fivord fore'd him, he might unhappily
be