"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" [‎٣‎٦‎٩] (٥٠٨/٣٩٠)

A Voyage to EAST-IN DIA, gfr-c. ^
of Mufk-Cats) to behad in good quantity; and there are Be-
zar (tones: which are not fo called from any Beaft of that name
but they grow in the maws of Goats, which when they obferve'
to grow exceeding lean , they kilj them, and find thofe ftones
m them 3 and u tixey did not lb 3 that ftone in them would make
an end-of them. By-wMch we may obferve, how that pre-
tious Bezar ftone that proves many times fuch a Cordial, and
Prcfcrvgtu^ to the Life of Man, isdeftruftive and mortal un
to the poor Creature from wMce it is taken ; Like that pre-
tious^Wor -d of God, that may proceed from the Lips of him
tnat hath a, lean Soul, r and may doothers good;, but himfejf no
thing but mifchief. TJie greateft number of thofe Goats from
whence thoTe Bezar$ are taken, feed on the Mountains of Lar
in the Perftavs Temfaxm, the Weftern-Bound before V of
the Mogol'sgre&t Empire^
They have fomeftore of Silk here 3 but the greateft quantity
ot that rich Commodity, that any place in the whole World
anords, comes out of a Province belonging unto the
lung of Ptrju. 'ThvfeOeorgians and Armenians^ (both under
the Command of the Perfian King) are by profefiion Chriftians,
iike thole of the Greek Church. And xheAbiffins, under the
Comm.md of Prejier John, are in profeffion Chriftians like-
wile, but thefe clrcamciie their Males before they bap
tize them. Alals pqpirPfiople I whoi for want of better in(bui-
l 0n c ; anrit)t ' know what\they Chould, and therefore know not
what they do. All thofe Armenians, Georgians, and Abijfins, (as
I have it from others^, but can relate fomething of it out of my
own knowledge J even all of them fee Chrift but in the dark,
and by reafon of the general ignorance that is in them , cannot
know God as they ought in Jefus Chrift. Thefe are the differ
ent cafes of many which profefe Chrift in the World 5 fome
cannot know him, fome care not to know hu% and fome will
not know him, Amongft the firft of thefe, they all may be
ranked whom I but now named, as many others of the Greek,
and thofe that profefs Chriftianity in Ruffian Churches, with
many-many others of the Romifh , who have the Truths of
God fealed up in an unknown Tongue, to keep, and to conti^-
nue them in ignorance 3 who inftead of the two Breafts of
the Church, the Law and the Gofpel, are fed with mouldy
and finnowed Traditions > and their cafe being fbi, our Chari
ty towards them may lead us thus far, to believe that they
would do better, if they knew better 3 and this may (peak
much in their excufe. But what Plea can be made for us of this
Nation, that Do not what we Know 5 or if we be ignorant, it is be-
caufe we will be fb ^ not becaufe we cannot know, but becaufe
we care not for knowledge^ and will not kpow ?
But to return to the place where I began my laft digreffion 5 I
told you that the People here have fbme ftore of Silk, of which
they make Velvets, Sattins, Taffataes, either plain, or mingled,
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