‘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’ [‎394] (415/508)

>4 4 Voyage /o E A S T-I N D I A, fr -c.
Company ( who had been in Eaft-India a year or twoljefot^
told them, that what they had done they did without our de-
fire , and therefore they (hould have nothina; from us but
fome ill Language which he then gave them. We fet forward
in the Morning according to our wonted cuftom, they follow
ed after us , to the number at the leaft of three hundred Men
(for the place was great and populous) and when we were gone
about a mile from that Town, flopped our carriages; heofour
Company who told them they fliould have no recompence wa
prefendy ready to (hoot at them with his Mufket, which made
them all to bend their Bows at us : but I happily andfuddenlv
iteppmg in, prevented his firing at them, and their fhooth,*
at us ; which if 1 had not by Gods good Providence done but
we had madly engaged a great multitude, there could not have
been kis expefted m the fad iffue thereof, than the lofs of ail
our lives and goods. But having a little Parlee with them for
the value of three flullings of Englifti money given amoneft
them, theywereall quieted and contented, and immediatelv
leit us j wilhing us a good journey. x
. A fr er wIl en we had gone forward about twenty daves
journey, (which daily Remoovs were but (hor^by realbn of our
heavy carnages, and the heat of the weather ) ithapned, that
another of our Gompany, a young Gentleman about twenty
years old, the Brother of a Baron of behaved himfelf
o i , as that we feared it wou)d have brought very much mis
chief on us. o /
This young man being very unruly at home, and fo manv
others that have been well born, when their friends knew not
what to do with them, have been fent to Eaft-India , thatfo
fhiX"" 8 m ?r e i theIr own Graves in the Sea, in their palTage
01 h , aVeGravcs mad e for them on the Indian (hore,
Lh t 7 C T e ^ ere " V f ry v leanly conv eyance ( but how
umulvrMW 5 tootI ? er 0 for Parents to be rid of their
- XS" 5 u Ut r er kn . ew an y who were tbus fuppofed
to be lent thither, but they out-lived that Voyage.
waininnn 9^ n !, lenian 1 Ip^keof, his imployment was to
ter^ Gommander in his Gabin, who verycour-
amonUt the " he Ca ™ eSea ' turned him before the mart
his Birth 1 bn^ mCn ii ^ 0 u ^ 3 great Preferment for a Man of
came a ll v rn f J j 0uti]iv ' d ,ba t harlh ufage, and
of him L k Eoji-tod'a,and my Lord Ambaffadour hearing
ftw hlm'uo m f^n" 8 W scquainted with his great kindred, km
S a vL P r S Urt ' • , thtrc ,^ tertain ' d h ' m « a Companion
home wah.'^ }r lng ? accommodations, fent him
arrived. paflenger tor £^W, where after he fafely
thifhot-hra?n h to ^ ards ' h fr Gourt, it thus happened,that
near himT wl t n - lln us ' commanded him [then
n ^ wl)0 was the Princes fervant [ before fpoken of] to
hold