"رحلات السيد بيترو ديلا فالي، وهو نبيل روماني، إلى الهند الشرقية وصحراء الجزيرة العربية. وفيها يصف بدقة البلدان المختلفة، وكذلك العادات، الأعراف، التجارة، الطقوس الدينية والمدنية، لهؤلاء الأمراء وتلك الأمم الشرقية: في رسائل وديّة إلى صديقه السيد ماريو سكيبانو. وتم إضافة سرد عن رحلة السير توماس رو إلى جزر الهند الشرقية" [‎٤‎٥] (٥٠٨/٦٦)

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^Z^deiTtiTw^le too that many Widows being in the
1 eipht of their paffion taken at their word by their kmdied w o
ai lke it 20 to it afterwards with an ill will, not danng to deny
Sfc that exhort them thereunto, efpecialiy .fobhgd by the.r
word nor to (iilcover their own mind freely to the Goyernour.
Thinps which amongft Women, through their natural fcarfu
nefs and modefty ,eafily happen. And I would to God that in our
Countries in fundry cafes, as of marrymg or not, and the like
matters we had not frequent examples which Women notfel-
i ^ Mafter-s Women are not fufier-d to be burnt, nor is
rhe Indian -Gentiles believe that there is a Devihn the world
alrooft of the fame conditions wherewith we conceive him j but
"coam'teEgt 1 "™ 1 '
Th ll ohove all, the eating of humane flefh, asfome baiuarous
Nations do who are therefore detefted by them more then a
others Hence the (tnCtelt amongft them, as the Brachmans,
and particularly the Boti, not onely kill not,
ving things and even from herbs "^^d with anyeddilhccv
Jour reprefenting blood they
larger confcience eat onely hlh. Utiiers, tne mou K
lar^eft of all, though they kill not, neverthelels they eat 1
L? of Animals good for food,, except Cows; to ^
which all in general abhor, faying, that the Cow is their Mo-
hVr for he \flke (he gives, and the Oxen (he breeds wh.ch
in Indii, where through the paucity of o her Ammf, t ey
inake nfe of thele more then any for all occalions. So that tney
C I x: have reafon to fay, That Cows are the propot the
think they have reaion to hv that Fable, comnoa
world which perhaps would ligmhe by tnar rauic,
alfo to the Mahometans, and by me formerly mention d ,l nat
eafe^tlSeforeVtey^betievefha^theteft Souls' to whomGodi ^
Seafed to give little pain in this world, pafs into them AUthe , /
wating the whole3
onei and the place 'w ^ c h,' befideV cleanlinefi, /
Icoure with water and L-ovv^ aun fo . 5 virtue
is to them a Ceremoniai Right, which thc y t ln ^' :l f ch ilt i.
topmifie: But having oblerv'd it too in thehoufesot Wl