‘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’ [‎393] (414/508)

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A Voyage to E A S T-I N O I A, &c.
fbme of our Englifh provok'd thofe Natives to ftir againft qs;, but
hy our fpepdy Addrefles unto the G oyernour of that place, we
excufing the fault of thofe that mimTEreH^nieoccafion of their
difcontent, they being newly come thither, and altogether un
acquainted with their cuftoms, he prefently commanded that
wild ACTembly to depart from our Houfe ^ and fb immediately
they did, we receiving no hurt at allfromr any of them.
When my Lord AmbaOadour at firft arrived at Svrat, fo it
was, that an Engliih Cook he carryed with him, the very firft
day of bis coming thither, found a way to an Armenian Chri-
ftians Houfe, who fold Wine, which in that place, they, call
Armeniarr Wine. But (by the way) I do believe that there was
fcarce another in that populous City ot that Trade: the
greater fliame for thofe whofoever they be that fuffer fo many
unneceflkry Tipling Houfes fin the P lace . s where they have
power to reftrain them ) which are the Devils nurfery, the very
Tents wherein Sathan dwells , where Almighty God receives
abundance of dKhonour, Drunkennefsbeing a fin which hath
Hands and Fingers to draw all other fins unto it. For a Drunk
ard can'do any thing, or be any thing but good. That Arme
nian Wine I fpeak of is made of Raifonsof the Sun and Sugar.*
with fome other things put and boy I'd in water : wbich Wine,
when it is ripe and clear, is in Colour like to our Mvfiadels plea-
fant enough to the tafte, but heavy and heady. The Cook had
his Head quickly over-fraighted with it, and then ftaggenng
home-ward, in his way met the Governours Brother Surat ^ as
he was riding to his Houfe the Cook made a ftand, {laying lim-
iclf up upon his Sword and Scabbard, and cry'd out to the Go
vernours Brother , Now thou Heathen Dog ! He not underftand-
ing his foul Language, replyed civilly in his own, Ca-ca-ta } which
fenifies. What fayeftthou? the Cook anfwered him with his
Sword and Scabbard, with which he ftrook at him, but was im
mediately feized on by his followers, and by them difarm d and
carrved to Prifon •, the Ambafladour had prefent intelligence ofc
the mifbehaviour of his drunken fervant, and immediately lent
word unto the Governour's Brother, that he was not come
thither to patronize any diforderly perfon, and therefore defir d
him to do with him what he pleafed, upon which he P rcient |y
fenthim home, not doing him the leaft hurt. But
this Storv it will not be amifs to enquire who was the Heathen
Dog at this time, whether the debaucht drunken Cook. whocaU d
him (elf a Chriftian, or that fober and temperate who
W 1n t l!uril r r 0 ney ed towards the Court (after we had been in our
way about fevendayes from Snrat) wereftedata place ealled
mat, where many of the Inhabitants offered to
our goods, though we ( obferving there nodangei ) ,
: 8 K, ,lif v would i i., .nd in ,h. Mo.m.g opeM i
afed fomething of b, w.,of „oo»pcooo. CM.too.
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