"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" [‎٢‎٥‎٦] (٥٠٨/٢٧٧)

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The Travels of Peter Delia Valle,
melier might not have time to do any villany either to it or to
me. The truth is 5 I did not conceive my Camelier likely to do
any fuch thing, having had good information and affurance of
him from Chogia Negem, to whom he was well known, and who
recommended him to me : Neverthelefs, fince he that govern'd
would have it fo, I had patience to wait as long as he defir'd,
Yet from hence I gather'd that the above-mention'd news, now
that the and Nd/zrconfpir'd againft the Cafila 5 was
not altogether vain ^ being Ali AgA^ a man of fo great pldcein
Bafor*.. had fuch apprehenfions about it. And it might confift
well enough with the departing , for perhaps it went out
upon a venture 5 theiVlerchants being unwilling to fuffer longer de-
Jay, fforit was above eight months fince ihhCafila began to
unite) I fay, at a venture 5 becaufe the Defart is like the Seaj
where'tis a chance to meet or not meet enemies, and as men
forbear not to fail upon the Sea through fear of Pirats or Ene
mies, fo neither do they ceafe to pafs through the Defart. The
F. Provincial of with his Companion, (a Caftiliantoo
but not a Fryer of his Order) Adarc Antonio Lanza, a Venetian
(who came with me from Goa to Bajfora) and I know not how
many other Europeans,went along with the Cafila : I alone would
not, but ftaid with my Servants to go by my felf, and to travel
more hazardoufly indeed,but yet with more (peed, and undoubt
edly with more convenience then they.
May the thirteenth. Another Capigi fent from the Serdar to
the Bafha arriv'd at bringing a Robe and a Scimiter as
Prefents, and the confirmation of the Government of Bajfmh
his perlon, which hitherto he had not had. As for news, twas
diipers d amongft the people that the Turkifh Army was very
neer, and almoft upon Baghdad $ yet Letters from our Jlepfo
Merchants to the C^r^/e///e.f brought by a Moor of the company
ot the faid Capigi, inform'd usfor certain that according to my
above-mention cl Prophecy the Serdar was not yet come to A-
leppo. Pis true, they writ that perhaps to make his voyage
mure compendious he would not come to Aleppo^ but march di-
1 Ctrly to Mejopotamia and Baghdadhy another way j which yet
was uncertain when the faid Letters were written : whence tis
clear that one way or other he could not be further then dlefflO)
and perhaps^according to my opinion, wa« fcarce departed from
Conjtantinople. So that it was not poffible for Baghdad and Ter-
Jta to have wars this current year 16255 fince it would have been
noiiiiail Summers work to have march't to the Frontiers ;yet
tnat war will follow the next year, unlefsfome other chance in-
ttrvtne, I no-wife doubt. The (aid Letters further told us news
om Turkje, inamely that the Emir of Saida , anew rebelling
againfr the 1 urk, had taken and fackt Tripoli, driving away the
baiha that was there: but afterwards the Baflia of Aleppo march
ing out with his people^ had Tecover'd Tripoli y and reftor 'd the
aid expeird BaCha to the government. From Chriftendom,
That