"رحلات السيد بيترو ديلا فالي، وهو نبيل روماني، إلى الهند الشرقية وصحراء الجزيرة العربية. وفيها يصف بدقة البلدان المختلفة، وكذلك العادات، الأعراف، التجارة، الطقوس الدينية والمدنية، لهؤلاء الأمراء وتلك الأمم الشرقية: في رسائل وديّة إلى صديقه السيد ماريو سكيبانو. وتم إضافة سرد عن رحلة السير توماس رو إلى جزر الهند الشرقية" [‎٣‎٤‎٢] (٥٠٨/٣٦٣)

^42 A Voyage to EAST-INDIA, &€.
be taken 3 but he would never yield, and ifwe took him alive,
'ill ll hoped to find the refpedt of a Gentleman;, and till then we
had our aniwer. So our Meflenger was difcharged 5 and fhort-
ly after, this diftrefled Ship wanting her wings was forc'd by the
" wind and waves upon the adjacent Hand of Gazidia, where file
ftuck faft between two Rocks 5 thofe that were alive in her, by
their boats got upon the ftiore, which when they had all reco-
veredjWilling (as it fliould feem) to deftroy what they could not
keep, they fet her on fire to make her a Coal, rather than we
(hould make her a Prize, She was a Ship of an Exceeding great
value in Cojtn and Bullion, befides many other rich commodities/
(if report afterward abufed us not) but we got nothing from
her but blows, for which (he was repayed by us with Ruin, The
poor diftrefied Portugals after they had left their Ship, weremoft
inhumanly.ufed by the barbarous Iflanders, who fpoyled them of
all they brought on (hore for their fuccour, fome of them find
ing Death in the place they chole to efcape it^ and doubtleis
they had made havock of them all, had they not prefently been
relieved by two Arabian Junks (for fo their fmall ill-built Ships
are called) there in Trade, which, in hope I fuppofe of fome
great reward, took them in 3 and conveyed them fafely to their
own City Goa,^ •
In this Sea-fight we loft, out of our four Ships,but five men 5
three out of our Admiral, and two out of the James, befides we
had about twenty in our whole Fleet hurt. But offeven hun
dred which failed in the Carraque, (for fhe wasaShip of an ex
ceeding great bulk and burthen 5 our C^r/e/, though a Ship of
a ,thouland Tuns, looking but like a Vinace when (he was befide
her) there came not near half her Company to Goa, as afterward
we were informed.
Our Charles in xtiis oppofition made at her adverfary, for her
part, three hundred feventy and five great Shot (as our Gun
ners reported) to thele we had one Hundred Mufquetiers that
plyed them with fmall (hot all that while neither was our Ene
my Idle, for our Ship received from him at lea ft one-hundred
great fiot, and many ofthem dangerous ones through the Hull,
Our forc-maji was pierced through the middle, our Afain-maji
hurt, our Main flay almoft fpoyled, and many of our Main-
crouds cut afunder.
And now. Reader, it thou (bait be pleafed to accompany me
further, 1 fhall carry thee from this fad difcourfe, where we
maybe both refrefhed upon a near, iich, and pleafant Hand3
And tomake way for our entertainment there, take further no
tice, that alter we faw the Carraque in a flame (which was about
Ks 'ii +UyyUej Ivi m idni ght ) weftood off and on till morning, to fee if any thing
^ might be found in her A(hes of which when we defpaired, we
v^7 q yh fought about to fuccour and comfort our wounded and lick men on
'hi • the fliore. The Land there was very high, againft which the
/ ^ea is always deep 5 fo that it was the t enth da y of that month.
ere