Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIFE OF P. DELLA VALLE
- HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PORTUGUESE POWER IN INDIA
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE
- DEDICATION PREFIXED TO THE ITALIAN EDITION OF 1663 A.D.
- LATIN EPIGRAM
- ERRATA
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- LETTER I
- LETTER II
- LETTER III
- Map
- Plate section
LETTER II
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- LIFE OF P. DELLA VALLE
- HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE RISE AND FALL OF THE PORTUGUESE POWER IN INDIA
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTICE
- DEDICATION PREFIXED TO THE ITALIAN EDITION OF 1663 A.D.
- LATIN EPIGRAM
- ERRATA
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- DEDICATION
- LETTER I
- LETTER II
- LETTER III
- Map
- Plate section
Summary
From Goa, April 27, 1623.
I Now salute you (my dear Sig. Mario) from Goa; in India indeed I am, but no Indian. Having pass'd through the Syrian, and afterwards the Persian, I am again invested with our European garb. In Turkie and Persia you would not have known me, but could not mistake me in India, where I have almost resum'd my first shape. This is the third transformation which my Beard hath undergone, having here met with an odd Barber, who hath advanced my mustachios according to the Portugal Mode, and in the middle of my chin, shaven after the Persian Mode, he hath left the European tuft. But to continue my Diary where I left off in my last Letter, which was about my departure from Sùrat.
March the three and twentieth. Having taken leave of all Friends, a little after Dinner I set forth to depart, but met with so many obstacles in the Dogana, or Customhouse, that they detain'd me till almost night before I could get away.
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- Travels of Pietro della Valle in IndiaFrom the Old English Translation of 1664, pp. 126 - 167Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1892