"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" [‎٣‎٣‎١] (٥٠٨/٣٥٢)

A Voyage to EAST-INDIA, &c.
prevent it nor 3 when once they grow very old and troublefotn^
laying them forth in fome open place in the dark nightj When the
wild beajis ( as David obfervs 5 Pfal. 104. 20^1.) do creep forth,
mid the young lions roar afteir their prey. One miferable poor old
wretch was thusexpofed when we there, who by his pitiful cries,
was difcovered by our Court of Guard, thereon (hore,and not
far oil from him and by them relieved and delivered for that pre-
fenttime, out of the jaws of Death 5 And we asking Cobreeont
of the Natives ( whofe Story you lhall have by and by) why
they did fo, he told us, It was their cufto^, when their people
had lived fo long, that they knew not what to do with them 5
thus to be rid of them.
We faw in this Bay of Souldania many Whales, and about the
(hoi'e divers party-coloured Fowls 5 And here are Oftriches to
be feen. For the toil about the Bay 5 it feemsto be very good,
but the Sun (hine s not up on a people in the whole world, more
barbarous than thofe which poflels it 3 Beafts intheskinsofmen,
rather than men in the skins of beafts, as may appear by their
ignorance, habit, language,diet, with othet things, which make
them moft brutift],
Firft for God, the great God of Heaven and Earth, whorh
generally all the people in the World, Heathen as wellas Chri-
ftians do confefs, they ("as this Cooreexold us) ackhowledg none.
For their fpeech,itfeemed to us an inarticulate noife rather than
Language, like the clucking of Hens, ot gdbling ofTurkies
and thus making a very ftrange confufed noile, when they walk
here of there; it there be two, or three, or five, or ten^r twen
ty, or very many more in company, it is their manner to walk
in rank one after the other,in fmall paths they have made by thefr
thus walkings Kine in Summer many times do 3 when they come
home to the Pail ^ or as Wild-geele who fly in ranks, and as they
fly make a noiie 5 fo thefe walking together thus gabble from
the firft to the laft in company, as if all (pake, but none an-
fwered. Their Habits are their fheeps-fkins undrell, thonged
together,which cover their bodies to the middle, with a little flap
of the fame skin tied before them, being naked downward 5 and
when 'tis cold, keep the woolly, when hotter weather, thefldhy
fide of thofe skins next to their bodies.Their Ornaments and Jew
els, Bullocks s or Sheeps-guts full ot excrement, about their
necks 5 and therefore when we bought their Cartel, they would
take (and we were content they fhould) their skins 3 gutS3and gar
bage, which plentifully furnifhed them with that rich attire, and
gay ornaments 5 and when they were hungry, they would fit
down upon fome hillock,firft fhaking out fome of that filthy pud
ding out of the guts they wore about their necks, then bowing
and bringing their mouths toitheir hands, almoft as low as theif
knees* like hungry dogs would gnaw, and eat the raw guts,
when you may conceive their -mouths full of fweet greet!
fauce. The women as the men are thus adorned, thus habit^dj
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