"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" [‎١‎٧‎٢] (٥٠٨/١٩٣)

1 7 2 I he Travel of Peter Delia Valle,
the Devils, who are wont to be in this place, and to do much mif-
chief-, to remedy which the Queen founded this Chappel here,
and dedicated this Idol to Cwhich they fay is the name
of a great Devil, King of many thoufands of Devils) who dwelt
here : The fame was afterwards confirm'd to me by others of
the Country 3 all confefling that it was Buto, i, e, the Devil ^ for
fo they tearm him in their Language. When I had feen all,
and Ipit feveral times in the Idols face, I came away and re-
turn'd home, upbraiding the Brachman with his Cowardize, and
telling him that he might fee whether my Religion were good or
no > fincefo powerful and fear'd a Devil could not hurt me when
I went to his very houfe5and did himfuch injuries; Whereunto
the Brachman knew not what to anfwer. Concerning Idols, they
told me, ztManel, that the Queen of O/^&^andall her Family,
7 as'twere upon an Hereditary Account, ador 'dand held for her
p r i nc ip a l God, an Idol call 'd Tutu Somnkta, which they faid
was ^ ame w j t j 1 Mahadgu, and which they delineated alfo of a
round figure , like the little pillar of a Land-mark, circular at
the top after this manner
as I have elfe-where noted that
they pourtray Mahadm in Camhaia , and the Sun in other
places.
The fame day, December the feventh^ Being return'd home
before noon, I took the Altitude of the Sun ztManel with an
Aftrolabe. I found him to decline from the Zenith 3 5 degrees 5
r / / he was this day in the fourteenth degree of Sagittary. His
/C?. f ^2 f},. 3 Southern Declination was 22 degrees 30'. which fubftraded
from 3 5 degrees, (the Altitude which I took, leave 12 degrees
2 9 / . 36^. which is the Declination of the iEquinodial, South
wards from the Zenith of Maritl^ and alfo the height of the
Northern Pole in that place. So that Manel^ where the Qaeen
of Olaza now refides, lyes 12 degrees 29^. 36' / . diftant from the
iEquinodial towards the North. At night, having waited all
the day, and not hearing of the Queens fending for me, as (he had
promis 3 d, I thought not good to importune her further, but
imagined fhe was not willing to be vifited more by me. Where
fore I gave Order for a Boat to carry me back to the
next day. Of the Queens not luffering her felfto be viilted more
by me, certain Men of the Country who convers'd with me,
gave fundry Reaions: Some (aid, the Queen imagin 'd I would
have given her fome Prefent, as indeed I fhould, which would
require a requital ^ but, perhaps, fhe had nothing fit to requite
me with in thefe wretched places, or was loath to give: So that
to avoid the fhame, fhe thought beft to decline the vifit. Others
faid 5 there was no other decent placeto give Audience in, but
that where her Son was, and for her to come thither, did not
(hew well 5 as neither to fend for me into fome other unhand-
fome place, nor yet to give me Audience in the Street, when it
was