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‘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’ [‎417] (438/508)

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A Voyage to E A S T-IN D I A, &c.
SECTION XIV.
Of moji excellent Moralities w
amonoft the Fcoplc of thofe Nations.
X."! Ext to thbfe things which are Spiritually good, there is no-
iNj thing which may more challenge a due and deserved com
mendation. than thofe things which are Moraliji and' Materially
foi and many of thefe may be drawn out to life, from the ex
amples of treat numbers amongft that people.
For the Temperance of very many, by far the greateft part of
the Mahometans and Gentiles, it is fuch, as that they will
rather choofe to dye, like the Mother and heijeveu Sobs menti
oned in the fecond of Macchahees and feventh Chapter, then eat
or drink any thing their Law forbids them. Or like thofe Re-
chabites, mentioned, Jer.35. Where Jonadah their Father com
manded them to drink.no Wine,
Commandementfake- Such meat and drink as their Law allows
them they take, onely tofatisfie Nature, ( as before) not
tite" ftriftly oblcrving Solomon $ Rule, Prov. 23.2.
a hnife to their throats, that they may not tranfgrefs in taking too
much of the Creature; hating Gluttony, and efteeming Drunk:
enr.eS as indeed it is, another 5 and therefore have but
one word in their Language, (though it be very copious,) and
that word is Mefl , for a drunkard, and a mad-man. Which
(hews their hatred of drunken diftempers j for none of the people
there are at any time feen drunk, (though they might find li-
quor 'enough to do it) but the very oftal and dreggsof that
people, and thefe rarely, or very feldom. ■ „
And here 1 (hall infert another moft needful particular to my
prefent purpofe, which deferves a moft high commendation to
be civen unto that people in general, how poor and mean
foeverthev be 5 and that is, the great exemplary care they ma-
nifeft in their piety to their Parents, that, notwuhftandine they
ferve for very little ( as I obferved before) but five (hillings
a Moon for their whole livelyhood and fubfiftence; yet, it
their Parents be in want, they will impart at the lealt halt ot
that little towards their necelfaries, choofing rather to want
themfelves .then that their Parents (hould fuffer need.
For the Mahometans [who live much upon the labours of the
Hindooes, keeping them under, becaufe they formerly conquer-
■ ed them] there are many ot them idle , and k " 0
to eat than work , and thefe are all for tomorrow, a word very
common in their mouths, and the word is wh>ch figmfies
to morrow, and when that day comes to
morrow thev will fet down upon their bufinefles tomorrow,
Z 7o any thing you wouldW them to do to *orro*.

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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 . Translated from the Italian by George Havers. A dedication, written by Havers to the Right Honourable Roger, Earl of Orrery, precedes the main text. The second part of the volume, A Voyage to East-India with a description of the large territories under the subjection of the Great Mogol , was written by Edward Terry, and not, as the frontispiece suggests, by Sir Thomas Roe.

Publication details: Printed by J Macock for Henry Herringman, London, 1665.

There are pencil and ink annotations in margins of many pages in the volume. The index at the end of the volume is handwritten, and contains entries for: Persia, Portuguize [Portuguese], Surat, Ormuz [Hormuz], Cambay [Khambhat], and Shah Abbas.

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‘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’ [‎417] (438/508), British Library: Printed Collections, 212.d.1., in Qatar Digital Library <https://www.qdl.qa/archive/81055/vdc_100023664260.0x000027> [accessed 18 January 2025]

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