"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" [‎٣‎٧‎٠] (٥٠٨/٣٩١)

A Voyage to EAST-INDIA, &£•
or ftrip d in party-colours 5 but the beft of them for richnefs and
goodnefs come not near thofe which are made in the parts of
Italy.
Many curious Boxes 3 Trunks, Standi(hcs 5 Carpets, with
other excellent Manufactures^ maybe there had. They have
medicinal Drugs 5 and amongft them very much Cajpa grow
ing there in Canes. They have Gums well fented, and much
Lignum Aloes> which burnt, yields a perfume better than any
one thing in the world that leverfmelled. They have great
ftore of Gum-lac 5 of which they make their hard Wax 5 and
that Gum likewife they there imployfor many other neat ufes.
The Earth there yields good Minerals of Lead, Iron, Copper,
Brafs, and (they fay) they have Silver-Mines too, which (if
true ) they need not open, being fo enriched from other Na
tions of Europe, and other parts, who yearly bring thither great
quantities of Silver to purchafe their Commodities. Which I
colled from our Englifti Trade there 5 for, though we vent
fome quantity of our Wollen Cloth, withfome other things we
carry thither, yet the greateft part by far of Commodities
brought thence, are caught by the Silver hook. And this is the
way to make any Nation of the world rich, to bring, and leave
Silver in it, and to take away Commodities* And, as all Ri
vers run into the Sea, fo many Silver Streams run into this Mo
narchy, and there ftayi the People of any Nation being there
very welcome that bring in their Bullion^ and carry away the
others Merchandizes 5 but it is look'd on as a Crime that
is not eafily anfwered , to tranfport any quantity of Silver
thence. ^
The Coyn, or Bullion, brought thither from any place, is
^relently melted and refined, and the MogoV% Stamp (which
is his Name, and Titles, in Perlian Characters) put upon it.
The Coyn there is more pure than in any other part of the world,
being ( as they report) made of pure Silver, without any
Allay s fo that in the Spani(h Money, the pureft of all Europe,
there is (bme drofs.
They call their pieces of Money, Roopees 5 of which there arc .
fome of divers values, the meaneft worth two (hillings and
three pence, and the beft two (hillings and nine pence fterling.
By thefe they count their Eftates and Payments. They have
another Coyn of inferiour value in Guzarat, called Mamoodies,
about twelve pence fterling; both the former, and thefe, are
madeinhalfs, and Tome few in quarters ^ fo that three pence is
the leaft piece of (ilver current in thofe Countries^nd very few of
them to be feen. That which paffeth up and down for ex
change under this rate, is Brafs or Copper Money, which they
call Pices, whereof three, or thereabouts, countervail a Penny,
Thofe Pjffej-are made fo maffie and thick, as that the bafer me
tal of which they are made, put to other ufes, is well-nigh
worth the Silver they are rated at. Their Silver Coyn
is