‘The travels of Sig. Pietro della Valle, a noble Roman, into East-India and Arabia Deserta. In which, the several countries, together with the customs, manners, traffique, and rites both religious and civil, of those Oriental princes and nations, are faithfully described: In familiar letters to his friend Signior Mario Schipano. Whereunto is added a relation of Sir Thomas Roe’s voyage into the East-Indies’ [‎391] (412/508)

clothed 5 the pooreft;, and leaneft Creature that ever mine
Eyes beheld 5 who faintly begg'd of him fome relief, telling
C what was true) that he was almoft quite ftarv'd 5
Ambafladour pittied and relieved him 3 and, as we return d
back, found this poor Creature eating with fo much gree-
dinefs, as if he could not have been fatisfied. He was then
willed to come to our Houfe, and he did fo, and there was
fed, and heartned up again, and then 3 when he was come to
himfelf, told us, that he had endured there abundance of milery.,
which, as he acknowledged, did moft juftly befall him, becaufe
he had there renounced his Religion, and become a Mahomtan y
which, when he had done , no care was taken of him there,
(Tor they regard not a Man that will not be conftant in his Reli
gion, believing, that if that Bond cannot tye him, nothing
will.) He told us further 3 that he was very forry that he had
(b done, ar^d defired a paflage for England^ which was granted
him 5 and he was put unto me as my Servant, and therefore I
fitted him with Qothes,&c. fit for his turn, but afterward (we
being at Sea) he would often curfe and ban, and cry out, O Mml
ventura ! O his hard hap ! and that of all the miferies which he
had endured, this was the greateft5 that he, an Hidalgo, a
Gentleman oi Spain, (hould live to become a Servant, and which
was worfe, toferve an Heretick. I would, when I heard this of
him (for hefpakenot fotome) tell him of it, and further mind
him of that moft fad condition in which we found him, how
that he had ftarv'd to death, if our pitty in the relief he found
from us, had not even then prevented it. He would reply,
that he knew not whathefaid ^ telling me, that his many mife-
ries hadturn'd his Brains: ( Not to beftow any more Ink and
Paper on him) we brought him afterward to Vlimmouth, and
immediately after our arrive there, he defired his Liberty,which
was eafily granted him, and from thence (having fome Money
given him , more than he deferved) took his courfe 5 whither,
I cannot tell, neither need my Reader defire to know. And
therefore I will return again, as fwift as meditation or thought
can carry me, unto Eafi-India, where I (hall in the next place
fpeak
SECTION VIM.
Of our fafe and feat re living awpngB the Natives there,
if we do not provoke them. Of their faithfninefs unto
thofe that entertain them as Servants : For how little
they ferve, and yet how diligent they are, &c.
W Here firft for our Living in it is with as much
freedom and fafety in our Journies and Teats, when we
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