"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" [‎٢‎٤‎٩] (٥٠٨/٢٧٠)

Into the EAST-INDIES.
a nd accept of Muhhamtd for their Prince, to avoid being taken
or flainj fled with about 500 that were faithful to him to Bajfora,
where Alt Bafia the Son of Efrajlah, (who had fucceeded his dead
Father, or rather intruded into the Government by force before
his Father expired) receiv'd him courteouily, and gave him a
piece of Territory belonging to the jurifdidtlonof Bajfofa, in the
Confines of Hhaveiza, where he might live with his followers.
The people of Hhaveiza in the mean time agreed with the
Chan, and receiv'd Mubhamed for their Prince, being ready to
obey the Chan in this, and what-ever elfe he (hould command ^
yet upon condition that no gizilbafci fhould enter intoHte/e-
whereunto the Chan allented. Concerning Occurrences
fince our arrival at , News came that the Chan, after he
had eftablifhed Muhhamed in Hhaveiza^ was advanced forwards
with his Army towards BaJJora^ and was already enterd into the
State by a place which they call Qarna^ intending, perhaps.,
to take certain Garrifons in thofe borders, and alfo to make fur
ther progrefs: Whereupon the Bafha went out againft him with
all his Forces, and three of the live P^/z^/Ships, which, as I
faid, he kept in Pay ^ the City oftiajfora in the mean while being
in greiat fear of the Per [tan Army.
As for other things more particularly pertaining to the State
of this City , he told me, that after the taking of Ormnfy the
Sciah fent an Embaflage to the then Bafha of Baffora Efiajiab, to #
tell him, that he requir'd no more from Bajjbra but onely to have
his Coyn ftamp'd there, his Name us'din the Acclamations of
the People, and in the Prayers of the Mefchitas^ as King of the
Country, inftead of that of the Great Turk 5 and that the People
of Baffora (hould wear their Turbants after the manner 5
that as for the reft he ftiould leave Efiajtab to rule in that State a s
abfolute Lord, have the fame confirm'd tohkllTue, and be pro-
teded againft the Turk or any other, without paying any Tri
bute, but remaining in perfedt Libertj. Efiafidh, who was a pru
dent man, well knowing the wayes of the King of Perjta 0 made
no account of thefe offers, and thought not fit to adventure the
fafety of the State which he poffefs'd, upon uncertain hopes 5 but
trufting in the aid of the Tortugals, whole Ships might be of great
ufe to him in that place, which the Perjians in order to offend
Bajjora muft pafs by force, namely, either the Sea, or at leaft
the great River, fthe Perfians having no Veflels fit to conteft
with fuch ShipsJ he rejected the Propofition of the Sciah^ and
prefently re-manded the Ambaflador with a ftrift Order imme
diately to depart both the City and the State, left heftiouldfe-
cretly corrupt ibme of the Grandees, who might afterwards
pervert the people, who are half ^/^/M 5 s,Qfthe fedt of the Sciah 5
telling him in brief, that he Was the Great Turk's Vaflal andfo
would die, and that he was prepar'd for War , if the Sciah pre
tended any thing from him. The Sciah finding he could do no- ?
thing upon Bajjbra by fair means 3 commanded the Chan of Scira%y
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