"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" [‎٣‎٥‎١] (٥٠٨/٣٧٢)

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value
J Voyage to E A S.T-I N D I A, &c.
value o{ tmelve pounds and ten {hillings of our Engliih Money >
loddrigupon him as a Derveefe, Vorary or Pilgrim, (for fo
he called him ) and fuch as bear that name in that Country feem
not much to care for money 5 and that was the reafon ( I con
ceive ) that he gave him not a more plentiful Reward.
After this he having got a great maftery likewife in the Indo-
Uan 3 or more vulgar Language, there was a Woman ^ a
Landrefs, belonging to my Lord Embaffadors Houfe^ who had
fuch a freedom and liberty of Speech, that Ihe would fometimes
fcould, - brawl, and rail from the Sun^rifing to Sun-fet, One day
he undertook her in her own Language, and by eight of the
Clock in the Morning fo fikneedher^ that (he had not one word
more to fpeak.
I fhall haveoccafion to fay more of this man in fome paflages
of this following Difcourfe, and therefore I (hall not wrap all I
have to fp&lk of him in this, although it be a verylqngdi-
greffion ^ Yet becaufe I muft now (hortly bring you to hi^ ;our-
nies end, I thaU take the freedom to enlarge my felf a little fur
ther concerning him here in this place, fccfor^ lileave him for
the prefen^ and to give thee. Reader, a piece of his CharaBer^
itfpeaks thus: . v ^ r . j \ ,
That he Was a man of a very coveting Eye, that could never
he fatisfied with feeing, n&Seleman fpoaks, Ecclef. t.B* though he
had feen very much $ and I atii perfwaded that he took as much
content in -feeing , as many others in the enjoying of Great and
Rare things, ' He was- a man that had got the maftery of many
hard Languages, (as befojelobferved) to the and C?r^
he brought forth of with him ^ in which, if he had ob
tained ^ifdom to hufband and manage them, as he had (kill to
fpeak thehi, he had deferved more Fame in his Generation. But
his knowledge and high attainments in; feveral Languages made
him not a little ignorant of himfelf 5 he being fo covetous, (b am-s
bitious ofpraife, that he would hear andendure morjpi it than he
could in any meafure defetve $ being like a Ship that hath too
much -^i/, *and too little Ballatf : Yet if he had not fain into
the fmart hands of the Wits of thofe Times, hemight havepaf-
fed better. That itch of Fame which engaged this man to the
undertakings of thofe very hard and long, and dangerous Tra^
vels, hath put.thoufands more (and therefore he was not alone
in this) int6 ft range attempts onely to be talked of.
Upon a time one M* Richard ^ee/ a Merchant, and fervant to
, the Eaft-TnJ a Company^ came unto us from Surat to Mandoa^
the place tiien of the Algol's Refidence (of which place fome-
^vhat more hereafter ) at- which time M r Coryat- was there with
lis : This Merchant had not long before travelled over-land
from EaB-India through Verfia, and fo to Conjldntinople^ and fo
for England'^ who in his Travel home-ward had met withT^w;
Coryat, as he was journeying towards Eafl-India. M r Steel then
told him 3 that when he Was in EngLtnd^ King James (then living)
enquired
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