"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" [‎١‎٥‎٨] (٥٠٨/١٧٩)

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as Ion- as Hie lives^ yet for honor's fake is ftyl d King, and call'd
CelmiKairi, (of which words, Celma is his proper name, and
Rairit his title) fent for the Brachman my Interpreter in the
MorninSj and difcourfing long with him, took a particularin-
■l ^ ^ f onn ation of me, telling him that he underftood I was much
■ /sC-c* { hj waiter then the Poytugdls who us cl to tr3Uti in that C<ountryj and
'of a very good prefence, and conlequently, rnufl: needs be a per-
fon of quality. In conclufion, he bid him bring me to him when
mv o'onveniency^erv'd^ for he was very defirous to fee me and
fptak with me. This Meffage being related to me, I let pafs
the hour of dinner, Cbecaufej having no appetite, and hnding
my ftomack heavy, I would not dine this day,) and when it
leemda convenient time,I went (with my Interpreter^ cloth'd
in black after my cuftom $ yet not with fuch large Breeches down
to the heels, as the Fortngals for the moft part are wont to
Wear in India, in regard of the heat, (for they are very commo
dious, covering all the Leg, and faving the trouble of Stocking
lb that the Leg is naked and loofe ) but with Stockins and
Garters and ordinary Breeches, without a Gloak, (though us'd
by the Portugal-SoMievs in Ivdia, even of greateft quality^ but
with a large Coat or Caflbck, open at the fides, after the Coun
try fafhion. The Palace,' (which may rather be call'd Capantt*
Reale,* Royal Lodge) is entred into by a Gate like the grate or lat
tice of our Vine-yards Tit Rome, ordinary enough, feated in the
mid ft of a field, which like them is divided by a fmall hedge
from the neighbouring fields. Within the Gate is a broad
Walk or Alley, on the right fide whereof is a fpacious plot fown,
at the end of which, the Walk turns to the right hand, and
there upon the fame plot ftands the Royal Manfion, having a
profpeft over all the faid great green field. In the middleof
this fecond Walk, ^ou enter into the Houfe, afcending feven or
eight wooden ftairs, which lead into a large Porch, the length
of which is equal to the whole fore-part of the Houfe. This
Porch was pav'd with Cow-dung after their manner, the walls
about (hining, and painted with a bad red colour much us'd by
them. The fore-part of it, which is all open, is up-held by
great fquarc pofts, of no great height, ("for'tis their cuftom
to make all buildings, efpecially Porches, but low in refped
of the breadth and length, with very broad Pent-houfes^ which
is, I believe, by reafon of the great heat of the Country, where
they have more need of fhadow and ccolnefs, than of air or light.
Directly oppofite to the ftairs in the middleof the Porch, was
another fmall Porch, which was all the entrance into the inner
part of the building. Within the little Porch was a fmall room
long and narrow, where the King fate near the wall on the left
fide 5 and he fate upon the ground after the Eaftern manner
upon one of thofe coarfe clothes, which in Ferfia. and Turkie are
calfd Kielim^ and ferve for poor people > nor was it large, but
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