"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" [‎٢‎١‎٦] (٥٠٨/٢٣٧)

Ihe 'Travels Peter Delia Valle,
day before arrived at Goa in a Shallop which had been long ex-
pefted and judg'd loft, having been (even moneths in coming
from Mafcat, He faidj he came about Affairs of his Order and
the Covents of Terfta, ( for befides that which I left at Sphahan
they have fince made one at Sciraz, and another at Bajjora^ and
daily multiply ) yet with-allit was rumored, that he wasfent by
the King of Ferfia, to treat with the Vice-Roy about According
the matters of Orwnz ^ and I believe it, although he fpoke no
thing oi it> himfelf^ otherwife;, me-tbinks 'tis not likely they
would have let him come out of Perfta. without the King's ex-
prefs Licence, or that the King would have granted it in time of
Warr 3 unlcfshehad come about (bme particular bufinefsof his.
He informed me that all my friends inPerfla were well 5 and fo did
a Letter of IT; Fra: Giovanni to his Provincial at Goa^ wherein
mention was made of me, giving me intelligence of the well -fare
of all my Friends, and how Sitti Laali my Coufin, Had brought
forth a Son whom (hehadnarnd Avedik, from Chogia Avedif^
his Father's Uncle 5 which News was ftak, for I knew it before
my coming out of Terftci^ and indeed, all the Letters F. Manod
brought wereot a very old date 5 to me he brought none, be-
cauie my t riends there conceivd I was gone out of India into
By rope,
May the feven and twentieth, A Ship of the Portugal Fleet
that was coming from Mozambique arrived in the Port of Mor-
mogon j it entred not into the River of Goa 0 becaufe the mouth
of the River, by reafon of the latenefs of thefeafon was unfecure,
and began to be flopped 5 for every year all the mouths of the
Rivers and Ports of this Coaftare fill'd with fand during the time
of Rain,^ wherein the Weft wind blows vef-y tempeftuoufly. and
are open'd again in September when the Rain ends. The Port of
Mormogon, as I have elfwhere faid 3 is in the fame Iflandof £7^
in the other mouth of the more Southern RivetjWhere fbmetimes
old ftood, by which goods are conveyed by Boat from
the SnT the Clty5 bUt by a longer Way:> goin S behind rounci
[May the twenty eighth, In the Evening at the time of Am
Maria, the Bells of almoft all the Churches of Goa , faving that
0 u j tS:> run § ^ or Beatification of two Fryers,
News 1 San Domt2ico i whereof this Ship had brought
; ^ the twenty ninth. Another Ship of the Fleet ar-
,nved and within two or three dayes after, all the other Ships
cxpecred bom Mozambique-, and in one of them, the Tefuit de-
Patriarch into Ethiopia , whither he with two Biftiops,
^hereof ope was dead by the way, and many other Jefuits, was
Gv f th e inftance of the King of the fame Country, who, they
ia>, is called ^ aghed, and profefles himfelf a Roman-Ca-
.^ohek already, mth great hopes of reducing all that Ringdoin
^ e hurchm fhort time. As for the progrefs which the Je-
fuits