‘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’ [‎344] (365/508)

344 Voyage to E AS T-I N D I A, &€.
/ / of this Tree (being very tough, firm and faft wood)
- ^ growing up ftreight and high, will make Timber, and FUnks
and Pins, and Adajis, and Tards > a ftrong Gum that iffues out
ofit 3 with the Rind that grows about it 3 will ferve to the
Ship\ and that fpdngyKzW ("that looks like our Hemp when it
is a little bruifed) will make Cordage and Sails, and the very
large Nnts that grow upon it (of which are made many excellent
drinking Cups) when it is newly gathered;, hath a milky, white
jabjiance that is tender (tafting like an Almond) round about of
a good fubftance within it > and within that a very pleafant Li
quor, that is wholfom, as well as favoury 3 which may for a need
lerve thofe which fail in this Ship for meatand drinks
Now well ftored with thefe Nuts and other good Provifions,
after fix days abode there 5 the breaches our Ship had lately re
ceived in fight being repaired., and our men well-refreftied ? we
. /a put again to Sea the fixtee nth day, and a profperous gale follow-
, / ing us 5 were carried happily a iecond time under the JEquim&ial,
2 ^ iLf wit:houtthe leaftheat to offend us, the twenty_dayjpurthof the
4 ' fame Month. Our Courfe was for the Hand of Zocotora near the
mouth of the Red Sea, from whence cbmes our dloes Zocotrina 5
but an adverfe gale from the Arabian (hore kept us fo off that
r we could by no means recover it. We pafled by it the firft of
September, 1
Miffing that Fort, we proceeded on our Voyage, and the
^5/^ fourth of September made a folemn F»«enf/in memory of our
latellain Commander^ when after Sermon the (mall Shot and
great Ordnance made a large Peal to his Remembrance.
(pfiii Onthefixthof ^fe^/>erat night, to our admiration and fear
the Water oi the feemed to us as white as milk, which did
not appear only fo in the body of the Sea, but it looked fo like-
wife in Buckets of water which we did then draw out of the Sea.
Others of our Nation paffing on that Conrfe have obfervedthe
like; but I am yet to learn what fhould be the true reafon there
of, it being there very far from any Ihore, and the Sea fo deep as
^ that we could fetch no ground.
, The twenty firft. We difcovered the main Continent of Ajia
/0 ^ rear 31° which Eaji-India takes up a large parti The tweh-
'ZQ.J-' ty fecond, wefc*adfightof Deu and Damon, places that lye in
thelkirts of India, principally inhabited and well-fortified by
Portugals 5 and the twenty fifth of September we came happily to
an Anchor in Sxva lly-Road within the Bay of Cambaia, the Har
bour for our Fleet wEIIe'they make their ftay in thefe remote
Parts.
1 hen after a long, and troublefom, and dangerous paflage,
we came at laft to our defired Port. And immediately after my
J. Piosj ^ rrival there,: I was fent for by Sir Jho mBs Row, Lord Embafla-
doui, then refiding at the JMogol's Court which was very ma-
ny miles up in the Countrey) to fupply the room of M' John Hall
his Chaplain fFellow o{Corpus Chrijh Colledg in Oxford) whom
he