‘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’ [‎333] (354/508)

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A Voyage to EAST-INDIE A,
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red with his former condition, an Heaven upon earthy but he did
nor fo 3 though he had to his good entertainment made for him a
Chain of bright Brafs, an Armour, Breaft, Back, and Head-
piece 3 with a Buckler all of Brafs, his beloved Metal ^ yet all this
contented him not 5 for never any feemed to be more weary of
ill ufage, than he was of Courtefies^ none ever more defirous to
return home to his Countrey than he : For when he had learned
a little of our Language, he would daily lie upon the ground,
and cry very often thus in : broken Englifh, Cooree home go. Soul-
daniago, home go 5 And not long after, when he had his defire,
and was returned home, hehad nofooner fet footing on his own
ftiore, butprefently he threw away his Clothes, YnsLinnett, with
I all other Covering, and got his (beeps skins upon his back, guts
about his neck, and fuch a perfum'd Cap (as before we named)
upon his head} by whom that Proverb mentioned, 2 Pet 2. 22.
was literally fulfillM, Cams ad vemitum 5 The dog is return d to
his vomit, and thefwine to his wallowing in the mire.
After this fellow was returned, it made the Natives moft fhie
of us when we arrived there 5 for though they would come about
us in great Companies when we were new come thither, yet
three or four days before they conceiv'd we would depart
thence, there was not one of them to be feen, fearing belike we
would have dealt with fome more of them, as formerly we had
done with Cooret. But it had been well if he had not feen Eng
land^ for as he difcovered nothing to us, fo ipertainly when he
came home, he told his Country-men (having doubtlefs obferved
fo much here) that Brafs was but a bafeand cheap commodity in
England, and happily we had fo well ftored them with that met*
tal before, that we had never after fuch a free Exchange of our
Brafs and Iron for their Cattel. It was here that I asked Cooret
who was their God ? he lifting up his hands anfwered thus 5 in his
bad Engliih, England God, great God'^ Souldania no God,
In the year 1614. Ten Englifb men having received the fen-
tence of death for their feveral crimes at the Seffions houfe in the
Old-Baily at London, had their Execution refpited by the in-
treaty of the Eatf-India Merchants^ upon condition that they
ftiould be all baniftied to this place, to the end (if they could find
any peaceable abode there) they might difcover fomethingad-
vantap -ious to their Trade i And this was accordingly done. But
two of them when they came thither were taken
carried on the Voyage. One whofe firname was Dujpeld, by Sir
Thomas Row, that year fent Embaifadour to the Great Mogol\
that fellow thus redeemed from a moft fad Banifhment, was at-
terward brought back again into England by thrat noble Gentle
man, and here being intruftedby him, ftole fome of his Plate,
and ran away : Another was carried on the Voyage likev/ife, but
what became of him afterward, I know not. So that there re
mained eight which were there lett with fome Ammunition, and
Viftual, with a fmall Boat to carry them to and from a very
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