"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" [‎٣‎٨‎٥] (٥٠٨/٤٠٦)

they have each of them a fine Collar of large round bells 3 ibihe
of them made of Silver. They are pared and futed as our
Coach -horfes for ftature and colour v moft of them thus imploy-
ed are white, and fome pide^ or (potted all over with ieveral
colours. They are guided with fmall cords ;which go through
the parting of their Noftrik, and fo twixt their horns into the
Coach-mans hand, who by thefe reftrainsthem when, and guides
them how he pleafeth ^ and when he would have them go on,
pricks them forward with a fmall and fhort ftaff he keeps in his
hand pointed like a goad. Thefe Oxen there, are very neatly '
made, flender, ftrait-limb'd and not very large, but naturally
very nimble, and by daily ufemadefo fit to perform that la
bour, (being kept well (hod) as that they go twenty miles a day
and more, with good fpeed. They keep thofe Oxen for this fcr-
vice, as their horfes, well-drefled, and fo well fed, that they be
plump and fat, and confequently very handfomto behold.
The men there ot thegreateft rank and quality, ride fome-
times in thofe Coaches, and fometimes on their curious Horfes,
andfomerimeson their brave Elephants, but however they are
carried, they have their horfes, which wait upon them when they
go abroad, that they may beftride them when they pleafe. And
at other times they ride on mensfhoulders, in ajflight thing they
call a Palankee, made fomewhat like a Couch or *ftanding Pallat,
covered with a Canopy, wherein a man may lie at his full length,
as many of thofe Grandees do, when they are removed trom
place to place, giving themfelves up t6 eafe, and over unto thole
lins which follow it i and while they are thus carried,they make
the (houlders and joints of thofe that feci their heavy weight, to
bow and buckle under their burdens. This as it fhould feem was
an ancielit but a bafe effeminacy fometimes ufed in Rome. Juve-
/Win his firft Satyre,defcribing a fat Lawyer thus carried.
Caufidici nova cHMveniat Leffica Matbonis^
Plena ipjb— : M
Mat ho the pleader comes in his new Chair,
Fill'd with himfelf« when that he takes the air.
It had been well, if fuch carriages as thefelhad been never heard
.of, but in then-heathen Rome, oramongft poor blinded Indians.
But, Vd nobis miferk ad qnos Vaganorum vitia tranprunt. Wo
to us wretched people of this Nation, unto whom the vices o
Pagans are derived. It was a curfe that the old Cretans were
wont to wifh might fall upon their greateft enemies, that t ey
mmht fall in love with evil cuftoms. This doubtlefs is one,
amongft many more, fallen upon us ot this Nation, w en
not out of neceffity, but choice, make other men t eir
horfes to ride upon them, a thing (as I conceive of it) mo
worthy of a man, as he is a man, fo to do^
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