‘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’ [‎396] (417/508)

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A Voyage ^EAST-INDIA,
we conceived, but , putting on the belt confidence we could, and
landing then upon our guard, and all of us watching that night
but (in a fpecial rnanntr) by the good providence of God, who'
kept us mall our journey, we here felt none of that mifehief
wefcarecU but early in the morning quietly departed without
the Itfau moltliation. After which, with a little money, anda
great many good words, we fo quieted this man, that we never
afterheard any more complaining from him. So that (as before
oblerv ed) wc were not at anytime many dangers of fufferine
by that people, but fome of our own Nation were the procurine
caules of it. ■ 6
Before I obferved , that for the generality of this people
thej have very low and timorous fpirits, but there are fome I
named in my laft Sedion, who are ftout daring men, as the Ba-
loches., Patans, and Raftiboots, who, as they have the honour
above all the reft of the people in thofe large Provinces to be
accounted valiant; fo, as occafion is offered, they will (hew
themlelyes fo to be : and therefore they are much hired as
Convoys, to fccure Mens Perfons and Goods, from place
t0 £ ape - 1 . r, •
i ^ o r "'Ole Provinces , they are not without Mountains of
prey, and Taberpacles of Robbers, as David and Job fpeak ;
where defperate nicn keep in fome Woods and Deferts 3 which are
nt>t far from great road-ways, -njoft frequented and ufedj and
there, like the wild jrahetjn Companies,meet and fpoil, and de-
Paflengers, when they exped them not, it being
the enrfed manne^ of thoie Spoilers, if they prevail againft them
vvhom they furpnfe, to kill them before they rifle them 5 and
therefore the firft thing heard from them is,
that is. Kill, kill, kill, which they all fpeakput-as loud as they
can.j ■. We were .often told of them as we travelled fometimes in
t ie xiightj by reafon of the extreani liCtit of the day Rafter we
Iiad taken leave of tljie Ring, and fo were journeying towards
£«r#t)that we (hould meet with thofe cruel villains 5 but,
through Gods mercy, we were never in danger of them but
once j and that was about midnight, neer a large City called
Eredera 5 but we being a competent number of Englifli-men
together , about twenty, and all .of us refolved to fell air
byes at as dear a rate as we could, and having twice fo many In
dian iervants with us, which are very nimble with their Bows
and Arrows, we with our Piftols and Carbins, which we pre-
entjy ducharged amongft them, and our Indians plying them
with their Arrows, made them fuddenly to retreat, we recei
ving little hurt from them;but after this,we made no more nieht-
marches. &
Thofe Indians I named before, are fo faithful to their trufts
unto whomfoeyer they engage, to the Englifli as well as
to any other, that if they be at any time aftaulted, they will
rather dye in their defence, than forfake them at their need.
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