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A65012	The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta in which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described : in familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano : whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe's Voyage into the East-Indies.; Viaggi. Part 3. English	Della Valle, Pietro, 1586-1652.; Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Havers, G. (George)	1665 (1665)	Wing V47; ESTC R7903	493,251	479

the latter the Cane upon which they carry is strait as it is likewise in the Nets but in the Palanchini for greater ease of the person carry'd that he may have more room to carry his head upright the said Cane is crooked upward in this form ☊ and they bend Canes for this purpose when they are small and tender and these are the most convenient and honourable carriages and because there are not found many good Canes and fit to bear such a weight therefore they are sold dear at a hundred or six score Pardini a piece which amount to about sixty of our Crowns Besides as well the Palanchini as the Andòr and the Nets are cover'd for avoiding the Rain with dry Coverlets made of Palm leaves to wit those of the Indian Nut and other such Trees sufficiently handsome which being cast over the Cane hang down on each side having two windows with little shutters They keep out the water very well and the Coverlets may be taken off when one is minded to go uncover'd and carry'd by a servant Yet I never saw any go uncover'd in Goa either in Andòr or Nets but out of the City in the Country many I have spoken more at length of these Carriages because they are unknown in our Countries although I remember to have seen in Italy the Effigies of a Net or Rete engraven in certain Maps of the World and if I mistake not amongst the ways of travelling in Brasil where I believe they are us'd and indeed this mode of Carriage is very usual in India not onely in Cities but also in journeys and those of sufficient length wherefore to make experience of it I was minded to have my self carry'd this day after the manner which I have describ'd nor must I omit that the Men who bear such Carriages are satisfi'd with a very small reward Going in Palanchino in the Territories of the Portugals in India is prohibited to Men because indeed 't is a thing too effeminate nevertheless as the Portugals are very little observers of their own Laws they began at first to be tolerated upon occasion of the Rain and for favours or presents and afterwards become so common that they are us'd almost by every body throughout the whole year On the tenth of August I believe the Sun was in the Zenith of Goa returning from the Northern signes and passing to the Southern yet for the day and precise hour I refer my self to a better Calculation according to the good Books which I have not here with me On the eleventh of the same Moneth I saw at Goa a Carnero or Weather without horns which they told me was of the Race of Balagàt not great but of strong limbs harness'd with a velvet saddle crupper head-stall bridle stirrups and all the accoutrements of a Horse and it was ridden upon by a Portugal Youth of about twelve years old as he went and came from his own House to the School of Giesù which low School of Reading and Writing the said Fathers keep for more convenience of Children not at the Colledge which stands in the edge of the City where the higher Schools are but at the Church of Giesù which is the Profess'd House and stands in the middle of the City whither the abovesaid Youth rode daily upon his Martin and I observ'd that the beast being us'd to the place knew the way so well that he went alone at night from the House to the School to fetch the Youth without any body holding or guiding him before the servant which drove him as they do many Horses I took the more notice of this trifle because it seem'd a new thing to ride upon such creatures for although in our Countries Dogs and Goats are sometimes seen with saddles and Horse furniture running leaping and capring yet 't is onely for sport and with puppets upon the saddle but this Martin was ridden upon by such a boy as I have mention'd although the beast was but of a very ordinary bigness On the sevententh of August the Gentile-Indians kept a kind of Festival to which a great number of them came to a place in Goa which they call Narvè or as the vulgar corruptly speak Narvà as it were for pardon or absolution and many came in pilgrimage from far Countries to wash their bodies here plunging themselves into the Arm of the Sea Men and Women together all naked without any respect at all even persons of quality and casting Fruits Perfumes and other things into the water as it were in Oblation to the Deity of the water of this place with other Ceremonies Devotions and the like which I relate not more particularly because I was not present at them because the great Rain kept me from going to see them as it also was the cause that the concourse of the Gentiles was not very great Nevertheless I could not but speak thus much in general of it as being a considerable thing amongst them This Feast and their Devotion lasts two days but the first is most remarkable August the one and thirtieth A Galeon coming from Mascàt being the first Ship that came to Goa this year since the Rain and the shutting up of the mouth of the Port brought News how Ruy Freyra having been a few Moneths before at Mascàt with the little Fleet which he had of sixteen Ships was gone to attempt Sohèr which place being formerly abandon'd by the Portugals was now fortifi'd by the Persians with a strong Garrison and that after he had landed he assaulted the Fort but could not take it though many Moors were slain in the encounter and about twenty five Portugals amongst which were three or four Captains Men of Valor and Esteem in which action some conceiv'd that Ruy Freyra had not done well in hazarding and losing so many people upon a place of small importance but he continuing to besiege it it was deliver'd to him upon Articles the Garrison which was within marching away with their Arms and Baggage after which he raz'd the Fortifications and attempted another place of that Coast of Arabia which they call Galfarcan and having taken it out of indignation as I believe for the many good Souldiers which they had kill'd of his at Sohàr and to cast a terror left no person alive sparing neither sex nor age Which cruel manner of proceeding I cannot approve because on the one side it will alienate the minds of the people of that Country and on the other it will incite Enemies to fight against more obstinately and valorously as knowing they are to expect no quarter This is as much as hath been done hitherto in those parts about Ormùz the doing of greater matters requiring new and greater supplies from the Vice-Roy but they say likewise that Ormùz and Kesciome are extreamly well fortifi'd by the Moors September the six and twentieth Sig Don Garcia de Silva y Figueroa Ambassador in Persia from the Catholick King in my time who by

gave it to another probably the principal Secretary without reading or opening it The Ambassador had brought a Letter to him likewise written in the King of Spain's Name but did not present it now because the Portugals say that the first time of going to Audience they are onely to make a Visit and not to treat of business Then they drew forth the Present before the King which was some pieces of cloth within one of those wooden gilt boxes which are us'd in India a Lance of the Moorish shape to wit long and smooth like a Pike the point of Iron gilt and the foot embellish'd with Silver a gallant Target and the Horse above-mention'd cover'd with a silken Horse-cloth which Horse was brought into the Court where the King sate After he had receiv'd and view'd the Present and taken the Iron of the Lance in his hand which the Ambassador said was of Portugal they caus'd the rest of us to sit down near the outer wall of the Porch on the left side upon a rough Carpet strip'd with white and blew of that sort which the Turks and Persians call Kielim spread upon the pavement of the Porch The Ambassador although he sate yet never put on his Hat before the King for so the Portugal Nobles are wont to do before the Vice-Roy namely to sit but not to be cover'd nor did the King speak to him to cover himself but let him continue uncover'd wherein to my thinking he committed an error for going as he did in the name of the State which amongst them is as much as to go in the King of Spain's Name why should he not be cover'd before so small a Prince And the error seem'd the greater because he was the first that went Ambassador to Venk-tapà Naieka in the name of the State and consequently hath made an ill president to such as shall come after him And in introducing such prejudicial customs a publick Minister should have his eyes well open but the truth is the Portugals of India understand little are little Courtiers and less Polititians how exquisite soever they be accounted here as this Sig Gio Fernandez is esteem'd one of the most accomplish'd and I believe not undeservedly At night I could not forbear to advertise some of his Country-men hereof in a handsome way it not seeming fit for me a stranger and the younger man to offer to give him a Lesson However he never put on his Hat and Civility oblig'd us to the same forbearance but indeed it was too much obsequiousness for such a Prince as also for the Ambassador to tell him of the other times that he had been privately at that Court and kiss'd his Highnesse's Feet with other like words little becomming an Ambassador Nevertheless he spoke them professing himself much the servant of Ven-tapà Naieka out of hope that he as Vitulà Sinay had promis'd him at Goa would write to the King of Spain in his favor by which means he should have some remuneration Indeed the Portugals have nothing else in their Heads but Interest and therefore their Government goes as it does As we sate down being four of us that did so besides the Ambassador to wit the Chaplain Caravaglio Montegro and my self I handsomely took the last place because knowing the nature of the Portugals I would not have them think that I a stranger went about to take place and preheminence of them in their solemnities and they conformably to their own humor not onely us'd no Courtesie to me as well-bred Italians would have done by saying to me Amice ascende superiùs but I saw they were greatly pleas'd with my putting my self in the last place Caravaglio taking the first the Chaplain the second and Montegro the third I little caring for this or for shewing and making my self known in the Court of Venk-tapà Naieka laugh'd within my self at their manners and with the observation recreated my Curiosity which alone had brought me into these parts The King's discourse to the Ambassador was distended to divers things and as he was speaking he frequently chaw'd leavs of Betle which a Courtier reach'd to him now and then and when he was minded out a lump of the masticated leaves another held a kind of great Cup to his Mouth for him to spit into The King ask'd concerning the slowness of the Ships this year as that which disgusted him in regard of the Money they were to bring him for Pepper He inquir'd of several things of India and desir'd to know some kind of News The Ambassador told him all the News we had at Onòr which were uncertain being onely the Relations of some vulgar persons and therefore in my judgement too immaturely utter'd affirming for certain the coming of the Fleet with a great Army the Alliance between Spain and England the passage of the Prince of England into Spain and moreover Good God! the reduction of all England to the Catholick Faith by the publick command of that King with other such levities usual to the Portugals who are very ignorant of the affairs of the world and of State The King further spoke long concerning things transacted with him in the War of Banghel particularly of the Peace that concluded it for which probably being disadvantageous to the Portugals he said ●e heard that many blam'd him the Ambassador who negotiated it with his Ministers and that they not onely blam'd him for it but said he would be punish'd by the King of Spain who was offended with it whereat being sorry as his Friend he had sent several times to Goa to inquire tidings concerning him The Ambassador answer'd that 't was true there had been such accusations against him and greater some alledging that his Highness had brib'd him but that they were the words of malevolent persons which he had always laugh'd at knowing he had done his duty and onely what the Vice-Roy had appointed him and that in Spain they give credit to the informations of the Vice-Roy and not to the talk of others as well appear'd by the event Venk-tapà proceeded to say that that Peace was very well made for the Portugals and that much good had follow'd upon it intimating that they would have made it with disadvantage if it had not been concluded in that manner as he concluded it As if he would have said It had been ill for the Portugals with manifest signes of a mind insulting over them and that the business of Banghel was no more to be treated of Then he ask'd the Ambassador How old he was How many Children he had Putting him in mind of his using to come when a very Youth to Ikkerì with his Father to bring Horses and shewing himself very friendly to him Nor did the Ambassadar lose the occasion of desiring him that he would favor him with his Letters to the King of Spain pretending to hope for much upon account of them a thing which I should not commend in an Ambassador because he

seventh of August I took the Altitude of the Sun with an Astrolabe and found him decline Southwards from the Zenith 19 degrees 20 minutes He was that day according to the Ephemerides of David Origano which I much esteem but have now with me in the deg August the twelfth The great Caravan of Bassora arriv'd at Aleppo it set forth a considerable time before us but had encounter'd so many difficulties in the Desart that our sufferings were pleasures in respect of theirs August the sixteenth I was inform'd by Sig. Gio. Maria de Bona of many passages of the Turkish affairs which as appertaining to things before or hereafter to be mention'd in these Letters and to the full knowledg of the history of things in my time I will not omit to relate in this place He gave me certain intelligence how Sultan Mustafa Brother of the deceased Sultan Ahmed who reign'd in Constantinople at my being there reign'd and was depos'd for an Ideot as really he is twice namely once before and once after Sultan Othman How Othman who was a Prince sufficiently odd humor'd being ill-bent against the Christians and very desirous to make an Expedition against Rome after the bad success befallen him in Poland was slain by his own Grandees who would not suffer his government which was somewhat rigorous and violent and that as a sign of his being slain he that slew him carri'd one of his ears to Mustafa's Mother who was yet living and was likely to be well-pleas'd therewith That it was not true that the said Othman in the beginning of his Reign had put to death Qizlagarasi of so great authority in the time of Sultan Ahmed his Father because he had too much power having been the man that depos'd Mustafa and plac'd Othman himself in the Throne but indeed he banisht him from Constantinople sending him into a kind of exile to live privately in Aegypt from whence he was afterwards recall'd by the present Emperor and restor'd to his ancient favour and at length dy'd of a disease at Constantinople How the present Emperor was Sultan Murad Son of Sultan Amed and Sultana Chiose of whom in the time of Amed I have elsewhere in these made long mention And that Murad was not the eldest Son of Chiose who was seen at Constantinople in my time and was of the same age with Othman but was a Son much younger that elder having been put to death by Othman when he design'd to go into Poland How the said Sultana Chiose was still living and of more authority then ever her Son Murad now raigning since the death of Othman wherein perhaps she had a hand because he was not her Son but the Son of another Woman after the second deposition of Mustafa and indeed I fore-saw many years ago that the said Chiose having one day remov'd all other pretenders would at length by her wisdom and the power she had in Court bring the Scepter into the hand of one of her sons as accordingly she hath done How the Government of the Turks was very ill-manag'd in this nonage of the Emperor and all their affairs grew worse and worse because there being no head there was likewise no obedience all the Ministers did what they pleas'd every one more or less according as he had more or less power without any regard of the Prince whom as a child they not only esteem'd kept remote from the Goverment but endeavour'd to keep always so by educating him only to delights and pleasures Lastly how the Serdar or Grand Vizier lately sent to the War of Persia was Hhapidh Mahhammed Basha that he was not sent from Constantinople but created Serdar or Grand Vzier whilst he was at Amid or Diarbekir as Basha or Governor from whence without being seen to pass by Aleppo or spending much time by the way he hapned to be the same year in Mesopotamia which I said above that I much wondred at and could not believe in case he had come from Constantinople as ordinarily it uses to be He told me that indeed he was still at Amid and had not pass'd further because he continually waited for the coming up of the Army which was not yet gather'd together Whereby it appears to be true what I had always affirm'd at Bassora namely that nothing would be done this year in the War of Baghdad because it would scarce suffice for the uniting of an Army the expedition being begun and the same year and the Serdar who was to be General being newly created Sig. Giovan Maria added to these relations concerning the Turks some news about the affairs of the European Tartars pertaining also to the former namely that the Tartarian Princes of Cafa were three Brothers Chan who first reigned a man of spirit and valour Chan who was a hostage at Constantinople and a third Chan an enemy to the two others but a Vagabond from his own Country and a fugitive at the Court of the Persian on whom he depends and where he was seen by me in the year 1618. when we marcht against the Turkish Army Now of late years I know not upon what occasion the first Chan being sent for to Constantinople was there detain'd Prisoner and his Brother Chan their Hostage a person of little valour and age establish'd in his stead under whom the affairs of his State proceeded very ill and the forces were very feeble by which occasion the Chan that was in Persia being invited by the help of the Persian and many Tartars of the same Stare devoted to him he enter'd with an Army into his paternal Territories and driving his Brother from the Throne made himself Lord thereof by force continuing also to possess himself of all that Country by the help of the Cossacks of Poland with whom he confederated in despight of the Turks a thing indeed of very prejudicial consequence to them August the second I saw at Aleppo a Mahometan of the Country who writing in the right hand of a Child or Woman of any Age whatsoever certain words and characters which again he presently defaced by making a great blot of Ink in the palm of the hand and pouring Oil over it caused by the power of inchantments and words which he spake fast and bravingly that the said Child or Woman saw in the Oil in their hands whatever was desir'd yea certain Spirits spoke to them and answered to questions although the By-standers heard and saw nothing but only the Woman or Child related what he or she saw and heard He also caused two persons to sit upon the ground one opposite to the other and giving them four Arrows into their hands which both of them held with the points downward and as it were in two right lines united one to the other Then a question being put to him about any business he fell to murmur his inchantments and thereby caused the said four Arrows of their own accord to unite their points together in the