"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" [‎١‎٠‎٥] (٥٠٨/١٢٦)

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LETTER V.
FromIkfcer/^ Novcmb. 22. 1^23.
I Write to you from lkh r ^ the Royal City and Seat of Ij
tapa Naieka 0 whither I am come 5 and where I am at prefent $
I fhall give you an account of the Audience which our A ith
batfador hath had of this King, who, in my judgment, (hould , //(/Czr-z
rather be cali'd a Regulus or Royolet, although the Forty gals and
Indians give him the honor of a Royal Titles being he hath in &
etfed neither State^ Court, nor appearance befitting a true King. &
I lliaJJ defcribe to you every particular that is not unworthy 1
your Curiofity, and adjoyn fome other of my Relations and
Defcriptionsof the Idolatrous , their vain Superftitions
and Ceremonies about # their Idols, Temples, Pagods. What I
fhall now fet down, mine own Eyes have witnefs'd to 5 and I fhall
not fear being too tedious in defcribing things, perhaps, over
minutely in thefe Letters 5 fince I know you are delighted there
with, and out of your great erudition can make refledions upon
the Rites us'd in thele parts of the world, which in m^ny things
are not unlike the ancient ^Egyptian Idolatry. Fori am per-
fwaded to believe, not without the authority of ancient Authors^
that the worfhip of Ifis and Ofirk was common to Mgy^t and this
Region, as in Philojiratus I find Apollonius affirming, that in In*
dia he faw the Statues not onelyof the ^Egyptians, but alio of
the Grecian gods, as of Apollo, Bacchus, and Minerva^ But to
return to the particulars of my journey j O&ober the one and
thirtieth. After one a clock in the Afternoon, we departed from
Onor with Sig: Gio: Fernandez in a Mancion or Barge, and the
reft of the Family in a lefs Boat. Vitnla Sinay who was to go
with us, we left in a readinefs to fet forth after us, I know not,
whether by water or by Land. We row'd up the River which
runs Southward to O»0r, againft theftream, making ufe both
of Sail qjid Oars 5 and a little before night having gone about
three Leagues,,we came to Garfopa and there lodg'd. This
place was fometimes a famous City, Metropolis of the Province 7 ^
and Seat of a Queen : in which State, as likewife in many others
upon the Coaft of tothiiday, a Woman frequently hath ,
the fovereignty 5 Daughters or other nearefl: Kinfwomen be-
gotten by what ever Father fucceeding the Mothers 5 thefe Gen
tries having an opinion, (as 'tis indeed ) that the IfTue by the /? <>/
Woman-fide is much more fure of the blood and lineage of the
Anceftors, then that by the Man-fide. The laft Queen of Garjbpa
fell in Love with a mean Man and a ftranger," into whofe power
Ihe refign d her felf, together with her whole Kingdom. In
which aft, (fetting afide her choofing a Lover of bafe blood,
upon which account fhe was blam'd and hated by the Indians
P who