with much Curiosity and Pleasure) and also of all other Friends, and after due thanks to Sig: Angelo Crescentio, and Sig: Andrea Pulice who accompani'd us to the Scoglio di Euplea, vulgarly call'd Gaiola, I went aboard and departed.LETTER XVI. From Rome,April 4. 1626. AT length I am come to Rome, the place of my Nativity; but though I walk upon the banks of Tyber and the seven Hills, yet my mind runs wandring through Turkie and Persia, hoises sail again to the wind, and roams as far as the Indi∣an shores, reviewing Ikkeri, Manel, and Calecut. Whence em∣barquing again in the great Dolphin, it reconducts me over Seas and Lands, to my recent and late Peregrinations, and even to the Rock of Euplea, whither now I return both with my Thought and Pen. Being divided there, from Sig: Angelo, Sig: Andrea, and the rest with expressions of much affection, whilst they in another boat return'd towards Naples, I with my Felluca's set sail, and, Post varios casus, post tot discrimina rerumTendimus in Latium. In a few hours I came to Procida, where I was entertain'd by Sig: Antonio d' Antonii in his Garden; and not onely din'd there, but in expectation of a fit hour to depart, (because I would not touch at Gaeta, but intended to go directly to Terracina) I also lodg'd there all night. The Judge of Procida being inform'd, whether by the Mariners or others I know not, of the Coffin of Sitti Maani which I had, according to the cheating tricks us'd in the Kingdom of Naples, thought to get something from me upon this occasion; and to make the case more heinous, he waited till mid-night when we were all asleep, (notwithstanding he might have done it in the day-time when I walkt up and down the whole Island with the Women) and at that unseasonable time came with many armed people to disquiet us in the House where I was, saying, that he would see my goods, and stop the Coffin; with other such Language. I, who was prepard for such en∣counters, shew'd him the good Bills which I had brought from Naples, and, in short, made him take as a favor a small pittance, which I gave him out of respect to the Master of the House where I lodg'd.March the fourteenth, I left Procida before day, and putting to Sea arriv'd with a pretty rough Sea at Terracina, where Hora∣tio Pagni, Steward of my House, to whom I had written from 0