"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" [‎٣‎٢‎٧] (٥٠٨/٣٤٨)

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and every orje of them feem to go direftly, before the wind. Now
that it (houJd be To here, and not known fo to be in any part of
the world befide I ever heard of (if not inthofe winds, which
they fay are fom^imes fold by the I^/W-Witches) I can give
no reaforl for it, unlefs Satan (^who isrmoft Tyfannkral where he
is mpfl: ofeeyed) that Prince of the Air feems to rule more he^
than he doth in other parts. And moft certain it is that he rules
very much in the Inhabitants on that Main, the poor, ignorant,
and tnoft inirerable Mjg roes 3 born for fale^lavery., and (laught en
Thefc ftrange Gufts were accompanied with much Thunder and
Lightnings and with extream rain, fo noifom, that it made their
clothes whojftir'd much in it, prefently to ftink upon their backs 5
the water Mkewife of; thofeilimy , unwholfbm, hot, and unfa-
voury (howrs, wherefoever it ftood, would presently bring forth
many little offenfive Creatures, Thefe Turnadoes met with us,
when we were about twelve Degrees of North Latitude ,
and kept us company ere they quitted us two Degrees Southward >
of the Equino(5fcial, under which we palled the twenty eighth
of Apil. . , •
The nineteenth of May bSing Whitfunday, We paffed the ]0 j ^
Tropick of fo that we were feven weeks complHt
under the lorridZone, * ■ >
Between the Xropicks we faw (almoft every* day) different
kinds of? fiflies, in greater abundance than elfe-wheie, a#the
great Leviathan^whom God hath made to take hispafiime in the Sea 5
Granfifces, or lefier Whales 5 Sharks^ Turtles or Tortoifes^ Vol*
phmsy Bonitots^ Albicores, Porpjfces^ Flying fijhes , with many
others. Some Whales we faw of an exceeding greatnefs, who
in calm weather often arife and (hew themfel ves on the top of the
water, where they appear like unto great Rocks, in their rile
fpouting up into the Air with noife s a great quantity of water,
which falls down again about them like a fhowre. The Whale
may well challenge the Principality of the Sea^ yet I fuppofe
that he hath many enemies in this his large Dominion ^ for in-
ftance, a little long Fifh called a Thre(her, often encounters with
him ^ who by his agility vexeth him as much in the Sea, as a little*
Bee in Summer, doth a great Bcaft on the fho.re.
The sharks bath not this name for nothing, for he will mal
morfel of any thing he can catch, mafter, and devour. Thef^
sharks are moft ravenous fifties 5 for I have many times obfcrved,
that when they have been (wimmtng about our Ships (as often
times they do) and we have caft over-board an iron hook made
ftrong for this purpofe, fanned to a rope (hong like it. baited^
with a piece of beef of five pounds weight, this bait hath been,'
prefently taken by one of them 5 and if by chance the weight of
theliii'), thus taken, in haling himup, hath broken out the hook's
hold, not well faftned (as fometimes it did) fo that he fell a-
gain into the Sea, he would prefently bite at another Biit, and
fo bke till he was taken. This Sea-fhark is a Fifh as bad in eat
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