![‘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’ [‎428] (449/508)](https://iiif.qdl.qa/iiif/images/81055/vdc_100023517141.0x000001/212.d.1._0449.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’ [‎428] (449/508)")
‘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’ [428] (449/508)
The record is made up of 1 volume (480 pages). It was created in 1665. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: Printed Collections.
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4^8 . A Voyage ^ E A S T-I N DI A, &€,
dies. Thefe Afi-men will fometimes take intoxicating things
which make them to talk wildlyj and ftrangely (asfome of our
Quakers do in their ftrange diftempersj and then the foolifh
common people will flock about them, and ^believing they
then Prophefie) hearken unto them with all attention.
Avery great difference'twixt that people and ours 5 for there
they call mad-men Prophets, and amongfl: us there are many
Prophets which are accounted but mad-men.
There are another fort among them called Mendee, carried
on like wife meerly by mifs-takes and mif-conceivings in Religi
on 5 who like the Fr/ei?/ of Baal> mentioned 1 King. 18. often
cut their pefh with knives and launcers.
Others again I have there feen, whomeerly out of Devotion
put fuch maffie Fetters of Iron upon their legs as that they can
Icarce ftir with them, a nd then covered with blew mantles (the
colour of mourners in thofe parts) as faft as they are able, go
many miles in Pilgrimage bare-foot upon the hot parching
ground, to vifitthe fepulchres of their deluding Saints; thus,
putting themfelves upon very great Hardfhips, and fubmitting
unto extreme fharp penances, and all to no purpofe.
But to return again to thofe Indian Votaries who undergo
fuch hard things and out of this miftake that they do God good
fervice in the things they do. Concerning which adings,
cretins (though accounted an Epicurean and an Atheift) in his
firft book, fpeaks to purpofe about the Error of Religion.
Sapius olim
Keligiopeperit feeler ofa at que impiafa&a.
oft of old.
Religion bred ads impioufly bold.
I he Mahometans keep a folemn Lent^ they call the Ramjan
or Ram dam, which begins the firft New-moon,which happens in
September, and lb continues during that whole Moon. And all
that time, thofe that are ftrid an their Religion, forbear their
Women, and will not take either Meat or Drink any day during
that time, fo long as the Sun is above their Horizon, but after
the Sun is {et they eat at pleafure. The laft day of their Ram-
jan, they confecratc as a day of mourning to the memory of
their deceafed friends, when I have obferved many of the mean-
ner fort, feem to make moft bitter lamentation. But when that
day of their general mourning is ended, and begins to die into
night, they hrean innumerable company of lamps and other
lights j which they hang or fix very thick, and fet upon the
tops of their houfes,and all other moft confpicuous places near
their great Tanks are furrounded with buildingSsWhere thofe
lights are doubied by their Refledion upon the water,and when
they are all burnt outj the ceremony is done,and the people take
food. The
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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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