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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’ [‎435] (456/508)

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meats, of which they have many made very good by reafon of
their great abundance of Sugar. Others amongft them will eat
Fi(h 5 but of no living thing elfe. The Raftiboots will eat
Swines-flefh, which is moft hateful to the Mahometans 3 fome
will eat of one kind offlefti/ome of another(of all veryfparing)^
but all the Hindoo's in general abftain from Beef^ out of an high
and over-excellent efteem they have of {tine 5 and therefore
give the Mogol yearly 3 befides his other exadionSj great funis
of money as a ranfom for thofe Creatures 5 whence it comes to
pafs 5 that amongft other good provi(ions 3 we meet there but
with little Beef.
As the Mahometans bury : fo the Hindoos in general (not
believing the Refurredion of the Flefti} burn the bodies of their
dead near (bme Rivers (if they may with convenience} wherein
they fbw their alhes. ,
And there are another Seft, or fort of Heathens, living
amongft them, called Perfees, which do neither ot thefe 5 of
whom, and how they beftow the bodies f their dead^ yo u (hall
hear afterward.
The Widows of thefe Hindoos (firft mentioned) fuch as have
lived to keep company with their Husbands, for (as before)
there is uiually a good (pace of time 'twixt their wedding and
bedding. The Widows (I fay) who have their Husbands fepa-
rated from them by death, when they are very young, marry-
not again 5 but whether, or no, this be generally obierved by
them all, I know not, but this I am (lire of, that immediately
after their Husbands are dead, they cut their hair, andipendall
their life following as creatures neglcfted both by themielves,
and others 5 whence to be free from ihame, fome of t lem arc
ambitious to dye with honour (as they efteem it) when tieir
fiery love carries them to the flames (as they think) of ai ^y^
dom, moft willingly following the dead bodies oi their Hul-
bands unto the fire', and there embracing them, are burnt
with them. . „ , , „ ,
A better agreement in death than that of Et socles an oj-
vices, the twoTheban brothers, of whom it is faid, that they
were fuch deadly enemies while they were ahve, t at a '^5
when both their bodies were burnt together in the fame hery
Pile, the flame parted and would not mix m one, o
Statius thus: —■
Nec furiispojifaU modus; finmmaque rebelks
Seditione Rogi, *
But thofe, which before I named, agree fo well in ^ ^
will not be divided by death, where their flames uni w ^, i
And although the woman, who thus burns with er \
doth this voluntarily, not by aby coffl| u irio n ^
every Widow there is not thus fired) and though the p
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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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‘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’ [‎435] (456/508), British Library: Printed Collections, 212.d.1., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023664260.0x000039> [accessed 20 February 2025]

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