‘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’ [‎348] (369/508)

5^.8 A Voyage toEAS T-IN DI A, &€.
(ed Saviour was buried ^ and after that upon Mount Olivet
the very place whence he after Afcended^ where, upon a Rock
there was an of the former part of two feet, fuch as is
feen in foft earth;, when a man lifts up his body to leap thence 5
and thefe ¥r and fans confidently affirmed., and feemed un
doubtedly to believe, that it wasfo as theyftiewed and told
them. Many other things they affirmed, which being but Cir-
cumftantials ? ( though appertaining to the beftof all Stories)
were enough for thefe Pilgrims to and enough to make
doubt of.
At Jerufaletn, this our Traveller had made upon the IVriJir of
his left Jrmthe Arms of Jerufaletn, a Crof Croffed^ or Crofslets 5
and on the Wriji of his right, a fingle Croft made like that of our
Blefled Saviour fuffered on 5 and on the fides the Stem or Tree
of that Crof thefe words written. Via, Veritas, Vita , fome of
the Letters being put on the one fide of that Stem or Tree, and
fome of them on the other, and at the foot of that Cr^j? three
N ^ z / j , to fignifie thofe which fafted our Saviour unto it: All
theieimpreffions were made by (harp Needles bound together
that pierced onely thefkin, and then a black Powder put into
the Places fo pierced, which became prefently indelible Cbd-
ratters, to continue with him fo long as his flefh (hould be co
vered with fkin: And they were done upon his Arms fo artifici
ally, as if they had been drawn by fome accurate Pencil upoto
Parchment. This poor man would pride himlelf very much
in the beholding of thofe 5 and feeing them, would of
ten fpeak thofe words of Saint Pant written to the Galatians^
Gal.6.17. C though far befides the Apoftles meaning) I bear in
my Body the marks of the Lord Jefis.
Now after that himfelf and Camrade had feen what they
defired in and about Jerufalem, they took their leave of thofe
Francifcans, leaving with them money to recompence thecour-
tefie they had received from them 5 the Fryers being very poor,
and conlcquently, unable to entertain them freely without re
quitals.
From hence they took their way to take a view of the
Sea, Cfo called, either becaufe the water therein isftill, and
moves not 3 or bccaufe no living Creature is in it, and nothing
thrives on the banks thereof) the place where and Go-
worrah, and Admah and Zeboim once ftood, thofe Cities which
Almighty God overthrew in anger, andrepented not, Jer. 20. 16.
Hence they went to have a fight of the River Jordan, which dif-
chargeth it felf into that moft uncomfortable/^^and from hence
they journeyed through thofe ^ fr-itar,(which for the
tmotSolomon were rent from his Son Rehohoam) till theycame to
Mount Ubanus, Thence back to Sidon, which retaineth that
Name ftill. And here he told me, as his laft obfervation made
in that Land of Canaan, fometimes (like the Garden of the Lord)
flowing with mill^ and honey, being then enriched with a very
great