"رحلات السيد بيترو ديلا فالي، وهو نبيل روماني، إلى الهند الشرقية وصحراء الجزيرة العربية. وفيها يصف بدقة البلدان المختلفة، وكذلك العادات، الأعراف، التجارة، الطقوس الدينية والمدنية، لهؤلاء الأمراء وتلك الأمم الشرقية: في رسائل وديّة إلى صديقه السيد ماريو سكيبانو. وتم إضافة سرد عن رحلة السير توماس رو إلى جزر الهند الشرقية" [‎٢‎٦] (٥٠٨/٤٧)

The Travels of Peter Delia Valley
Jaurns, or Imaus, where it divides India from tart aria jg
that great Monarch , whom in Europe you commonly call the
Great JWoghol: Which Name is given him, becaufe of his being
A0&/ ,■«. deriv'd from a Race of Tartars call'd Aloghok^ho are of the City
\ /* 'of Samarcand^ and the Province of Giagata, which is the ancient'
• ' so^dianai) as'tis manifefted by the Perfian Geography, where
I / v ' to this day that Territory is denoted and diftinguifh'd by the
^ ' \ ancient name of SoghoL Teimur Len^ call'd by us Tamerlane^
i . ^ as frij r jHfejr reports, a famous Author of thofe times, who
/ wrlt Hiftory in the P^<i»-Tongue handfomely and with
great exadnels, cfefcended by a collateral line from the near
t / kindred of Cnighiz* Chan, the moft puiffant King of Chataio,
known alfo in Europe to our Hiftories, and by S. Antomno^ who
cT. anddfe- 9 ' wr ^ te8 largely concerning hitif, nam'd with a little corruption
whc'tc. CingisCham. Ttis Cw/gte warring with his neighbours, and
^ /y/ y ■ deftroying many oth^r Principalities, became at length Lord of a
V aft E>ominion,and in a manner of all Tart aria, (which compre-
1 ilLty/At r* / hends both the one and the other Scythia) and at his death di-
1 / vided the fame between his Sons. To the (econd Son
^ 9 ountr y Sa ** هذه التواريخ تقريبية *rcand, with all Sogdiana, and fundry
/ other adjacent Territories , and He, from his own Name call'd
y?, si / ■ it 074£iff«w,and all the Nations who remain'd under his Govern-
xnent Giagataians: A very ancient cuftome of xhz Scythians to
/l-c give the Princes Name to Counties and their Subjedts, as ap-
' Lib. 2. pears hj Diodorns Si cuius. In proceft of time, a Defcendant of
SL/^y */ Giagata reigning ftill in thefe parts, Tqmur Lenl^ 3 though ex-
/ ^ tradted from the nobleft blood of the Kings, yet remote from
' the Royal Stock by a long feries, liv'd in Sam arc and his own
f / / Countr y5 a man rather of valour then of great fortune. But it
t<x^/ falling out that the King at that time was flain for his evilde-
* portments , by the Grandees of the Country ^ in which con-
SU^ Juncture Teimur I.e»^ was eleded and placed in the Sove-
/ A reignty ; He, not contented with the fole Kingdom of Giaeataio
Ow being increased in ftrength and power, made afterwards thofs
/l J J V / / ^ reat Ex P edltlons wh ich the World beheld; Of which never-
[ LTnttyj thelefs, little fincere fame arrives to us > there being no Europe-
^ an who hath written truly thereof, laving briefly in the Sfanifb-
/ Tongue iiiy Gonzales de Clavijo, who was fent thither Embaffa-
V /• 7 V/ ,// } Kin ^ Don HeHr J the Third Caple. In like manner
- ■ T "' u "r his d « th kft that his great acquired Empire, divided
/ 4^. Co, ^f^°l S( "l S and N e P h ew ?5 vyho falling at variance after-
/ 4 ds 3 their Succeflors continuing the fame, ruin'd one ano-
/ ther with fundry warrs 5 and God knows whether in Tartan
there be left at this day any Prince of that Race. A Cadet or
ounger Brother of them, who had no (hare among the Tartars
came over the Mountains to feek his fortune in /«£?,within the
t-ourtor a Prince then reigning in one part of it: Where beins
once mtrodue'd^ by great alliances and fervices he rais'd a
Home i and in time, various Revolutions brought ii to pafs that
one