"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" [‎٢‎٤‎٢] (٥٠٨/٢٦٣)

<2^2 The Travels of Peter Delia Valle,
February the feven and twentieth. The wind not being good
^ 1 ^ our Marriners 3 who were Indians frwt of the Mahometan Religitn^
ty'd a bundle of clothes 5 which they faid was the Old Man (but I
know not what Old Man they meant) to one of the Ropes of the
fails, and there fell to beat it vehemently, crying out to it, to give
them a good wind \ in the mean time, other Mariners defir'd him
that beat it,to defift/aying that it woul d give them a good wind.
This fuperftitious Ceremony, not unlike that above-mention'd of
therortugals binding S.Anthony oftadna^ was willing to infert for
its ftrangenefs * although through the ignorance of the Mariners
\ themfelves, who could give no other reafon for it but that the
cuftom was (b 5 or t^ecaufe they would not tell us 5 I could not
under ftand what Old Man it was that they beatt, under the figure
of a bundle of Clothes, or from whom they demanded a good
wind.
Febrnary the eight and twentieth, We were minded to take in
water in the Country of Verdifian fa part of Per/^), of which
we had great need 5 but the people of the place prohibited us
repelling the boat from the (hore with many Mufket-ftiots. And
being ^we had notSouldiers to land and take water by force, it
behov'd us to have patience and depart without.
Mtrch the fir ft. We put out to Sea, to avoid certain (helves
that were neer the Perjian fhore, which here we found low and
flat, whereas hitherto it had been all mountainous 5 at night, we
came under Rifcel^ Port of Perjta in the ftate of Siraz.but no good
one.;
March the fecond, A little before night wecame to an Anchor
under the Ifland ofc^r^which Jyesdiftant fromC^ 24 Giavt. (A
Giant is a meafure us'd by the Arabian and Perjian Pilots in the Per-
fian Gulph 5 containing three leagues^ fo that from Can to Charg we
had fayi'd 70 LeaguesJ From Charg to Bafora, they told us,
Uiare remain d eight Giam^nd as many bomCharg to Bahhamin:
Thepart of the Continent neareftC^, h Bender Rich, belong-
in^ f? IcorKeive, to the Country of Lorifian, from which this
Illar^ is diftant two Giam, We caft Anchor between CharQ and
another little iQand which Ives to the North-weft, and iscall'd
Chargza. Charg is a little Kland having a Town of forty or fifty
Houles, wherein there is a with the Sepulchre (vene-
ra ted by the Moors) of one Muhhammcd Anefia, who, the people
ot the jOand fay, was one of the Defcendents ot Mnhhammd.
^ecauk the Sea was very rough we did not go a fliore 5 but a Por~
tm4 ship belonging to the Captain of Ciaul and bound for *4-
for a, put in at the fame Ifland.
March the fourth, We-went on the other fide of the Ifland to
get wate^of which we flood in great need • and my Ague having
I la " ded with the reft upon the Ifland, where 1 faw little
behdes the above-fa.d Sepulchre sa nd others lefs venerable.which
they faid were of fome of the familiars of him that was buried
in the greater 5 there was alfo a Grotta cut out by hand in ftone,
which