![‘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’ [‎374] (395/508)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023517141.0x000001/212.d.1._0395.jp2/full/!1200,1200/0/default.jpg "‘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’ [‎374] (395/508)")
‘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’ [374] (395/508)
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A Voyage f(> E A S T-IN DI A, <&c.
comfort anddircontent, come all of them by courfes and fuccef-
ceflions ^ fo that there i^no weeding up of thofe TareS;, no re
moving of thofe Annoyances from the Life of Man.
And ib having obferved what is Truth, and what is enough
to be faid of the Inconveniences and Annoyance?;, as well as
of the Commodities and Contentments which are to be found
in thofe parts, I come now to fpeak of the People that inhabit
there. And becaufe many particulars will neceflarily fall with
in tl\ejcompafs of this part of my Obfervatious, which would
more weary my Reader if they Chould be prefented unto him
in one continued Difcourfe, I (hall therefore ( as I have begun)
break this into Sections, and proceed to (peak
SECTION V,
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Of the Inhahitants of Eaft-India, who they are \ Of their
viofl ' excellent Ingenuity exprejfed by their cur ions'
nujaciures, their Markets at Home to buy and fell in,
and their 1 rade abroad
THe Inhabitants in general of Indoftan were all anciently
Gentiles^ called in general Hittdoes ^ belonging to that
very great number of thole which are called Heathens, which
take up almoft two thirds of the number of the People who in
habit the face of the whole Earth. But of this more hereafter.
There are fome Jews ( but they are not manyj here and there
fcattered and loft as it were, in thofe other great numbers of
People5 thegreateft company of Jews now to be found together
in any one place of the world (as I have been made to believe
from the obfervation of others) are to be feen at Grand Cairo in
Egypt, whither they are returned, and where fetled, to take their
fill of their fore-Fathers Fletti-pots. For the Inhabitants of £^-
India eVer 4!nce they were fubdued by they have
been mixed with Mahnmetans 3 which though they be by farr
in refpeft of their number lefs than thofe Pagans^ yet they bear
all the fvvay, and command all in thofe Countries. '
1 here are befides thefe, now become ■ as it were Natives
there ) a great number of Perftans and Tartars ( who are Ma~
humetans byReligionJ that there inhabit, very many of which
the# keeps tor Souldiers to ferveon Horfe-back, called
there Haddees ; There are of both thefe many dating, ftout,
hardy and valiant Men. For-the Perjians, there are many of them
'comely Ferfons, not fo fwart as thofe ot Eaji-Jndia, But for the
7artars I have there feen , ( and Iliavefeen many of them) they
are more to be commended for their Valour than Beauty, a
fquare, ftout, ftrong People, having platter Faces 5 and flat Nofes.
There are many Armenians, and fome Abijfins amongft them,
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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 . Translated from the Italian by George Havers. A dedication, written by Havers to the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery, precedes the main text. The second part of the volume, A Voyage to East-India with a description of the large territories under the subjection of the Great Mogol , was written by Edward Terry, and not, as the frontispiece suggests, by Sir Thomas Roe.
Publication details: Printed by J Macock for Henry Herringman, London, 1665.
There are pencil and ink annotations in margins of many pages in the volume. The index at the end of the volume is handwritten, and contains entries for: Persia, Portuguize [Portuguese], Surat, Ormuz [Hormuz], Cambay [Khambhat], and Shah Abbas.
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