![‘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’ [‎379] (400/508)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023517141.0x000001/212.d.1._0400.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’ [‎379] (400/508)")
‘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’ [379] (400/508)
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A Voyage ^EAST-INDIA,
dia, (as we were credibly told) amounted to the number of fe-
venteen hundred. Thofe Mahumetans that have vifited Maho
met s Sepulchre, are ever after called Hoggees, or holy men.
This bound from Snrat to the Red-Seaj as fhe hath many
people in her, fo hath fhe good Ordnance, but thofe Navigators
know not well how to ufe them for their defence. She begins
her Voyage about the twentieth of March 5 and finifheth it,
about the end of September following. The Voyage is but fhort
and might eafily be made in lefs than three moneths, but the
Ship is very (low, and ill-built to abide foul weather 5 and in the
long feafon of the rain, and a little before and after it, the winds
upon thofe Coafts are commonly fo violent, that there is no
coming but with much hazard into the Indian Sea. This Ship re
turning is ufually worth (as I have heard it faithfully reported,
and if my credit given to that report make me nottoabufemy
Readers) two hundred thoufand pounds Sterling, and moft of it
brought back in good Gold and Silver 5 fome fine ChawletsthQj
bring with them home likewife. But that huge mafs of wealth
thus brought home into IndU 0 is another efpecial thing, and
might have been added to that 1 fpake of before towards the
continual enriching of this great Monarchy: where, in the next
place I fliall fpeak
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SECTION V I.
Of th c care and shjU of this people in keeping and niana*
qino^ their excellent good Horfes j Of their Elephants
and their ordering and managing them, And how the
people ride and are carried up and down from place to
place.
y | a He Souldiery here, and fo many of the Gentry, and better
i fort of the people, who live at Court, (hew excellent
good skill in riding and managing of their well turn d, high me-
tal'd, choice Horfes •, which are excellent good at mounting up,
bounding and curvetting, and when they run them at their full
fwifteft fpeed will ftop them at a foots breadth 5 for the fcantling
of thofe creatures, they are in proportion like ours, but excel
lently well eyed, headed, limn d 5 for their colours, there are
fome of them Raven-black, but many more of them white, cu-
rioufly Dapled 5 and a very great number Pied and fpotted all
over, and there are fbme of other bright colours. But it is a
ufual cuftom there amongft Gallants who ride upon the brig t-
coloured horfes, to have their legs and lower parts of their bel
lies and breafts died into a Saffron colour (of which they have
much there) which makes them look as if they had ftood in lome
Ccc 2 Dyers
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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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