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A65019	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. Parte 3. English	Della Valle, Pietro, 1586-1652.; Havers, G. (George); Roe, Thomas, Sir, 1581?-1644.; Terry, Edward, 1590-1660. Relation of Sir Thomas Roe's voyage.	1665 (1665)	Wing V48; ESTC R10032	493,750	487

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 middest though he that held them stirred not his hand and according to the future event of the matter those of the right side were placed over those of the left or on the contrary I know well that such things are not difficult to be done by the art of the Devil nor yet to gain belief the Devil being naturally a Lyar but because the severity in our Countries makes such pranks very rare I therefore mention these here August the ninteenth Being ready to depart from Aleppo to Alexandretta there to go aboard a small French Ship which was ready to set sail the great Dutch Ships being already gone before I could be ready though I hoped to find them in Cyprus and perhaps to imbarque in a Elemmish Ship called the Neptune for more security with a Caravan of the same French When I sent my Goods aboard I hid the Coffin of Sitti Maani in a great Ball of Cotten Yarn and as such it passed at the Custom-house being seal'd wit this mark P † V N 6. the Letter denoting my Name and the figure signifying the number of trunks and bundles that I carri'd with me being set upon every one of them after the Mercantile fashion By this means the said Coffin was happily convey'd both in and out without being understood what it was either by the Turks or Mariners of the Ship who otherwise would undoubtedly through their vain Auguries have scrupled to carry it August the twenty second I was visited in the Consul's House by Metran Iscivaiab or Isciva-jahab Archbishop of Mufarquin a Syrian Nestorian who had been sometimes a great intimate to F. Fra. Tomaso de Novara and joyn'd with him in the reduction of that Nation to the obedience of the Catholick Church He told me he was very desirous to go to Rome and in a manner offer'd himself to accompany me though I was to depart the next day but because he said he had not his Patriarch's Letters for that purpose but expected them shortly therefore according to the prudent judgment of other persons who had inform'd me of his affairs namely that there was little likelyhood of his having Letters of much importance from the Patriarch and that his desire of going to Rome was chiefly upon hope to get something there I counsell'd him by no means to get to Rome without his Patriarch's Letters inasmuch as the same would render his reception undoubtedly more favourable He came to be of my opinion and said he would follow me as soon as his Letters arriv'd but in the mean time he desir'd me that I would carry with me two men of his Nation who were honest persons and would serve me in the voyage Whereunto I readily consented both to do him a kindness and because I wanted Servants having but two and not knowing where to get others that were trusty and fit for my purpose I offer'd him also my House at Rome and my Person likewise in what-ever it might be useful to his service remembring the Obligation I had to his whole Nation for the sake of Sitti Maani Giecride my dear and esteem'd Wife who was of it With these and other the like Complements to him and the Priest Rezqallah who brought him and who was Son of the Priest Ioseph Elbani a Maronite who read Arabick to me when I was before at Aleppo he departed giving me many benedictions after their manner and leaving a great Frienship establish'd with me August the third In the Morning I went to see the Synagogue of the Jews at Aleppo fam'd for fairness and antiquity Their Street is enter'd into by a narrow Gate and lyes so much lower then the rest that it is descended to by a considerable number of steps After I had gone through many of their narrow Lanes which they contrive so purposely to hide the goodness of the Building from the Turks I came at length to the Synagogue which is a good large square uncover'd Court with cover'd Walks or Cloysters round about upheld by double Pillars dispos'd according to good Architecture On the right hand of the entrance is a kind of great Hall which they make use of for their Service in the Winter when it is cold or rains as they do of the Court in Summer and fair weather In the middle of the Court four Pillasters support a Cupoletta under which in a high and decent place like our Altar lyes the volume of the Law and there also their Doctor and principal Rabbi stands reading in a kind of musical tone to whom all the people alternatively answer They stand in very great number dispers'd in the Court Cloysters and Hall with their bonnets on their Heads and promiscuously like us in our Churches Men and Women together though I have sometimes seen it otherwise in Italy yet they are mixt in such order that those of one family Men and Women stand all together and I believe too they have their peculiar places and benches to sit upon Moreover the right fide of the Synagogue was fill'd with Jews origiginaries of the Country from ancient time but the left with Europaean Jews who although inhabitants and marry'd at Aleppo yet are originally adventitious and these are all Spaniards and speak Spanish for their natural Language yea many of them were born and bred up if not Spain or Portugal at least in Italy Germany or other Countries of Christendome I was carry'd to see this Synagogue by a Jew nam'd Baruch or in our Language Blessed whom I had known at my last being at Aleppo He was born and bred in Mantua a man well qualifi'd danc'd play'd and sung competently well and upon these accounts came to my familiarity We sat together a good while in the Synagogue amongst his fellow-Jews beholding their Ceremonies and after I had seen enough I went away and left Baruch at his devotions As I went home I pass'd by the Carvanserai or Market of Silk as they call it because in times past Silk and other Persian Commodities were brought thither more then to other places but now it is little frequented Here buying some few things of certain Uzbeghi Tartars newly come to Aleppo with a Caravan I enquir'd concerning their

the Women of Sig Giovan Maria with very great kindness F. Orsino and I remain'd in the Consul's House being entertain'd with the greatest Love and Courtesie imaginable And indeed he hath been extreamly obliging to me not onely in this particular but in all other matters occurring about my departure from Aleppo which we have determin'd to be shortly in some of the Dutch or French Ships which are now in the Port of Alexandretta ready to set sailupon the next fair wind and perhaps together in consort which in regard of the many Pirates now infesting the Medeterranean would be the securest way LETTER XII From a Ship-board in the Port of Della Saline of Cyprus Sept. 6. 1625. DUring my stay at Aleppo from whence I writ my last to you on the 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 Government 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 GrandVzier 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