‘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’ [‎383] (404/508)

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A Voyage to E A S T-I N D I A, &c.
wind, that fbe could riot fuddenly flack her courfc, whereby
that poor creature might have been preferved. Another, one of
the Iriih Greyhounds had his head (hot off in our fight. The
Mange was the deftrudion of four more of them 5 only two of
the Maftives came alive to Eafi-India, and they were carried up.
each of them drawn in a little Coach, when I went up to the
Embaffador, that he might prefent them to the Mogol The
fiercell: of thefe two, inour way thither, upon a time breaking
loofe, fell upon a very large Elephant that was hard by us, faft-
ning his teeth in the Elephants Trunk, and kept his hold there
a good while, which made that huge beaft extremely to roar 5
and though the Elephant did fwing the Maftive up and down
above ground many times (as not feeling his weight) that he
might throw him off} yet he could not fuddenly do it, but at
laft freeing himfelf trom the dog by throwing him a good fpace
from him, there came a Mungril Gurr of that Gountrey towards
our Maftive, who then loft this his moft unequal match, fell up
on that dog and kill'd him, by which means we recovered our
Maftive again into our cuftody, he having not received any ap
parent hurts ^ by which we may fee how much Courage and
Mettl^ there is in thofe right fierce Maftives.
This ftory pleafed the Mogol very much when the dogs were
prefented to him, and he allowed each of them four attendants
of thofe Natives to wait upon them, who by turns two and two
together carried them up and down with him in FaUnkees^ (after
defcribed) to which they were tied 3 and the other two went by
them, fanning the Flies from off them , and the King cauled a
pair of filver tongs to be made on purpole, that with them
when he pleafed, he might feed thofe dogs with his own hand.
But this ftory by tfee way.
The Mogol hath many of his great Elephants train'd up for the
war,who carry each of them one iron Gun, about five foot long ?
lying upon a ftrong frame of wood, made fquare that is fitted
to a thick broad Pannel faftned about him, with very ftrong and
broad Girfes or Girts. The Gun like an Harquebufs hath a piece
of iron like a Musket-reft faftned on the fides thereof, made loofe
to play up and down. The bottom of that Iron Reft (b fixed,
is long, to be let through that frame of wood on the forefide,
and fo to be keyed in at the bottom. At the four corners of this
frame are fmall flags of filk, with fundry devices painted on
them, put upon little neat coloured ftaves, upon the neck of
the Elephant fits a m^n to guide him, and within the frame a
Gunner, to make his (liot as he finds occafion. The Piece thus
mounted, carries a bullet about the bignefsof aTenni-s Ball.
Some Elephants the King keeps for the execution of Male
factors 5 the manner how, follows in Setfion 23. And fome he
keeps to carry himfelf and women 5 and fome Elephants are
kept for State (of which more when I (hall come to fpeak more
particularly of the great Afogol.) Other Elephants are there ira-
ployed