"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" [‎٣‎٢‎٨] (٥٠٨/٣٤٩)

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irrg, as he is in quality, a very moift watery fifti 3 yet eaten at
Sfca Cbecaufe any frefh thing will there down) but no good
food. This FiQi turns himfelfonhis back to take his prey 5 by
which he gives warning to many other little filheSj who ever
fwiai about him, to avoid his fwollow. Thofe Filhes 4:hat thus
keep him company, are called by the Mariners, Pilot-fijhes, who
always (hape their courfc the fame way the Shark takes;, and by
confequence fnature having made them fo wary) he becomes
theii guard, not his food. And there are other fifties too they
cdVSncking'gh, that ftick as clofe to the body of the Shark as
a Tike on the fliore doth to the body of a Beaft, and fo receive
their nourifhment from him: and he muft be contented 5 for
while he is fwimming up and down, he cannot poffibly free him-
leif of them. Many of thefe Sharks grow to a very large great-
nefs j they have a broad round head, in which are three rows of
teeth very ftrongand (harp, by which they are able to take off
the leg ot a man at one bite, as lome have found by woful ex
perience, while they have been carelefly fwimming in thefe hot
^t-as, where thefe Sharks moftufe ^ and certainly, were they as
nimble as they are mifchievous, wduld do very much hurt.
The Turtle or Tortoife, is one of thofe creatures we call Aw-
/>/^to, that lives fometimes in the Sea, and fometimes on the
Shore 5 he is marvelloufly fortified by Nature,dwelling (ask
wer%) continually under a Jftrong roof, which moves with him.
and covers (when he will) his whole body, therefore re/fruk
which hgnifies a Tortoife, fignifies alfo the roof or vault of an
home, which covers all within it. Thofe concave backs (like
bucklers, but of anOvalftiape) that cover thefe creatures, are
many oi them fo exceeding ftrong, that th'ey will bear off the
weight of a Cart-wheel. Thefe Tortoifes increafe by eggs (as
1 have been often told) are very good to eat, the fubftance
within them (whether you will call it flefh or filh) firft boyled,
and after minced with butter, taftes like buttered Veal. Their
(hell makes (as is very commonly known) excellent good
Combs, Cups, or Boxes, and further it isufed by them in £aji~
Jndia^ to make or adorn little or great Cabinets.
^T he Dolphin is a fifh called,for his fwittnefsj The Arrow ofthe
Sjpja, differing in this one particular, from all other fifties I ever
obferved, in that he hath many little teeth upon the top of his
tongue 5 He is very pleafing to the eye, fmell, andtaftej of a
changeable colour,finn*d like a Roach, covered with many fmall
Icales, having a frefti delightfom fcent above other fifties, and in
tafte as good as any ^ thefe Dolphins are wont often to follow
our Imps, not fo much 1 think for the love they bear unto man
(as fome write,) as to feed themfelves with what they find caft
over-board: whence it comes to pafs, that many times they feed
us, for when they fwimclofetoour fhips, we often ftrike them
with a broad inftrument, full of barbs, called an "Harping-iron
faftned to a rope, by which we hale them in. This Dolphin may
be
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