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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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