"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" [‎٤‎٤‎٤] (٥٠٨/٤٦٥)

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their Xertooji did fetch fire from Heaven is as certainTytruTTq
that ancient Fidion and Fable of Trometheus, that he did f>pal
fire thence. >, ai
But to proceed: their Priefts they call Daroos, orHarboods
above both which,, they have a Chief, or High-Prieft, thev call
the Dejioor,^ who not often appears openly, but, when he doth
he meets with much Reverence and Refpeft given unto him by
the common people, and fo do thofe other Church-men which
are his mfenours : unto all which they allow free maintenance
tor their more comfortable fubfiftance.
Thofe Church-men by their Law are commanded to dwell
near, aud to.ablde much in their Eggarees, or Teviples, to give
advice or diredfion to any that fhall repair unto them for it.
f hey obferve divers Feafts, and immediately after each of them
a halt toilows.
That living fenfible Creature, which they firft behold everv
Morning f that is good and ferviceable) is to them Cas thev
fey ) a Remembrancer all the day after, to draw up their
Si Tr Thankf ' g f Vingttnt0 r Aln l ighty . God ' wh ohath made
luch good Creatures for mans ufeand fervice.
p 1 j her * a [e good things fas I have been informed) in that
Book of their Rehgion delivered them in precepts', which
their Law-giver hath left unto them for the direction of their
1 ves* ■ - ^ ^. .0.. . . ■ uv .
ro and fear ever prefent with then, which
Q re j tr ^»o an d keep them from the committing of many evils.
Wh j* **y thing, ferioHfly toconMer
rtbern be good or bad, commanded or forbidden tkern,
t irdfj To keep their Hearts and Eyes from coveting any thin*
that is an others, and their Hands from hurting any.
Fourthly, To have a care alwayes to fteak the Truth.
ro j* Know* onely in their own hufmejjes, and mi t* en-
7r ^\\ an 0 fo themfelves tn other mens matters
wWH^ ich precept,: but they have another
which marrs and fpoils all the reft, and that is, upon the greateft
penalties they can be threatned withall.
Sixthly to entertain, or believe any other Larp befides that
wDtcbrvas delivered unto them by their Lam-giver.
w ,S ! H , (>P ' C . ta ' le but one Wife 5 which hath liberty, as the
Wives of the Hindoo s, to go abroad. They never refolve to take
W ves or Hulbands without the advice of their Church-men;
am when they cometo be married, they ftand fomediftance
0 f th uV. hereb€ , iB g tWO Churc h-men prefent, one
!_i tnc behalt o, the Man, and in behalf of the Woman the other.
f he fat ft of thefe alks the Woman, whether or no fhe will have
thatManto beherHufband 5 and the other alks the Man. whe^
ther or no he will have that Woman to be his Wife : and thev
othconlenting, the Priefts bring them together
"" uls i P ra ying that they may live in Unity and Love together i