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.

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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.

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Della Valle, Pietro, 1586-1652.

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London :: Printed by J. Macock for Henry Herringman ...,

1665.

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Contents

• imprimatur
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• TO THE RIGHT HONOVRABLE ROGER Earl of ORRERY, &c.
• P. Scipionis Sgambati è Societate Jesu, PETRO à VALLE PATRICIO Romano, Ob cineres Conjugis ex ASIA revectos.
• THE TRAVELS OF Peter Della Valle, Sirnamed The Traveller.
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    • An account of my Arrival and Residence at Naples, in the House of Sig: Maria Schipano.
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• A VOYAGE TO East-India. WITH A Description of the large Territories under the subjection of the Great MOGOL.
  • SECTION I. Of the several Provinces, the chief Cities, the Prin∣cipal Rivers, the extent of this vast Empire.
  • SECTION II. Of the Soyl there, what it is, and what it produceth, &c.
  • SECTION III. What the chief Merchandizes, and most Staple, and other Commodities are, which are brought into this Empire.
  • SECTION IV. Of the Discommodities, Inconveniences, and Annoyances, that are to be found or met withall in this Empire.
  • SECTION V. Of the Inhabitants of East-India, who they are; Of their most excellent Ingenuity expressed by their curious Ma∣nufactures, their Markets at Home to buy and sell in, and their Trade abroad
  • SECTION VI. Of the care and skill of this people in keeping and mana∣ging their excellent good Horses; Of their Elephants and their ordering and managing them; And how the people ride and are carried up and down from place to place.
  • SECTION VII. Of their numerous Armies; Their Ammunition for war; How they lade themselves with weapons; How terribly they appear; yet how pusillanimous, and low-spirited they are.
  • SECTION VIII. Of our safe and secure living amongst the Natives there, if we do not provoke them. Of their faithfulness unto those that entertain them as Servants: For how little they serve, and yet how diligent they are, &c.
  • SECTION IX. Of their buildings in Villages, Towns, and Cities; How their Houses are furnished; Of their Sarra's or Houses for the entertainment of Passengers; Of their Tents, Wells, and of their places of pleasure, &c.
  • SECTION X. Of their Diet, their Cookery in dressing it, &c.
  • SECTION XI. Of the Civilities of this People; Of their Complements, and of their Habits.
  • SECTION XII. Of their Language, their Books, their Learning, &c.
  • SECTION XIII. Of their Physitians, Diseases, Cures; When they begin their year; How they measure their time, &c.
  • SECTION XIV. Of the most excellent Moralities which are to be observed amongst the People of those Nations.
  • SECTION XV. Of their Religion, their Priests, their Devotion, their Churches, &c.
  • SECTION XVI. Of their Votaries; where, of the voluntary and sharp Pe∣nances, that people undergo. Of their Lent; and of their Fasts, and Feasts, &c.
  • SECTION XVII. Of the Marriages of the Mahometans, and of their Po∣lygamy, &c.
  • SECTION XVIII. Of their Burials, of their mourning for their Dead, and of their stately Sepulchres and Monuments.
  • SECTION XIX. Of the Hindoo's, or Heathens, which inhabite that Em∣pire, &c.
  • SECTION XX. Of the tenderness of that people in preserving the lives of all other inferiour Creatures, &c.
  • SECTION XXI. Of other strange and groundless, and very gross Opinions, proceeding from the blackness and darkness of Ignorance in that people.
  • SECTION XXII. Of their King the great Mogol, his discent, &c.
  • SECTION XXIII. Of the Mogol's Policy in his Government, exercised by himself and Substitutes.
  • SECTION XXIV. Of the Mogol, shewing himself three times publickly unto his people every day, and in what state and glory he doth oftentimes appear.
  • SECTION XXV. Of his Pastimes at home and abroad, &c. where, something of his Quality, and Disposition.
  • SECTION XXVI. Of the exceeding great Pensions the Mogol gives unto his Subjects, how they are raised, and how long they are con∣tinued, &c.
  • SECTION XXVII. Of the Mogols Leskar, or Camp Royal, &c.
  • SECTION XXVIII. Of the Mogols Wives and Women; [where somthing of his Children, &c.]
  • SECTION XXIX. Of the manner of the style or writing of that Court.
  • SECTION XXX. Of the Jesuits, sent thither by their Superiours to convert People unto Christianity, &c.