"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" [‎٣‎٩‎٢] (٥٠٨/٤١٣)

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travel 5 in our Houfes when we are moft fix'd, as if we were in an
Army of Banners appointed for our Guard 5 or as if the Vines
and Fig-trees under which we there fit were our own.
But there are Spoilers fometimes met with-all in thofe Pro
vinces, that live by their Swords and Bows 3 having nothing for
their fubfiftance ( becaufe they will take no other courfe ) but
what they get by rapine andfpoil, of whom fome-what more
afterward.
And now by the way for thofe Villains who thus live, ("where-
ever they be) and thofe fturdy Rogues who are next to them
in guilt, by eating up the Bread of the Poor, having able limbs
to carry them that they may beg from Houfe to Houfe, and
Hands to receive Alms but none to labour^ boththefe being
the very vermin of thofe Common-wealths , wherein they are
fiiffered to breathe, it were very well if fuch of thefe as have not
deferved to be cut off by the Hand of Juftice, were all (erved
as Philip King of Mace don dealt with two Rogues, alterum e
Macedonia fugere^ alterum ferfequi jujjit. He made one of them
to whip the other out of his Country, and fo he was rid of both
of them.
But to return to the place from whence I am now digrefled. I
travelled from Snrat with four Englilh-men more, and about
twenty of the Natives in our Company, we beginning our jour
ney the firft ofJ^-towardsSirT/ww^ Rowjai ihzMogoh Court,
then above four hundred miles diftant from Snrat. We had fix
Wagons drawn with Oxen in our Company, laden with rich
Englifh Goods ("the principal part whereof was Englilh broad
ClothJ affignd to an EnglifliMerchant at the Court, and fome
other Carriages we had, of ail which we made a ring every
night near fome large Town or Villagej where werefolved to
ftay, and pitched our Huts within that Circle, fome of us watch
ing, and the Natives with us, every night 5 we went on that
long journey very fafely, only in fome places where there was
any fufpicion of danger, we had a Guard of Horfe appointed
to go with us for our defence, by the Command of Sultan Caroon
then Prince, and now King, (who had his Revenew out of thofe
parts we then travelled thorough) who fent a Foot-man, that
continually kept us company , with his Letters to command a
Company of Souldiers that were Horfe-men, to guard us where
he thought good ^ who as they did not expeft, fo they would
take no recompence for their pains, though we freely offered it
them. But the Providence of God did fo order it, that though
we had their Company in feveral places, we never had need of
their help for our defence. The truth is, that the People there
in general are very civil, and we never had any affronts or ill
ufage from them, if we did not firft provoke them.
But if we did, they would not well bear it, for twice in one
Week, at my firft coming to Surat^ the whole Town in general
were in an uproar^ and furrounded our Houfe there, both times
^bvr.-. fome