"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" [‎٣‎٩‎٩] (٥٠٨/٤٢٠)

A Voyage to EAST-INDIA, &c.
from place to place;, changing their air as often as they pleale.
And lecondly 3 becaufeall the great men there have their Penii-
onsand whole fubfiftence from the King., which they hold upon
very fickle and uncertain terms 5 for as they are fetled upon, and
continued unto them by the King's favour, (b are they forfeited
and loft by his frown. Of which more afterward.
Yet though they make not much ufe of them, they have in
plenty excellent good materials for building, as Timber^Bricks,
ftone and marble of divers kinds and colours, of which I have
feen fome very gitfa Vaults and Arches well wrought, as in their
Mofquitsor Churches, fo in fome of their high-ereded Tombs,
(of which more afterward) and fo in fome other places like-
wife.
For their buildings in Cities and Towns, there are fome of
them handfom^ others fair, fuch as are inhabited by Merchants,
and none of them very defpicable.
They build their houles low, not above two ftories,and many
of their tops fiat and thick, which keep off the violence of the
heat^ andthofe flat tops, fupported with ftrong Timber, and
coated over with a plafter (like that we call plafter of Parts)
keep them dry in the time of the Ra ins.
Thofe broad Tarrafes, or flat Roofs, fome of them lofty, are
places where many people may ftand (and fo they often do)
early in the morning, and in the evening late, like Camelions 5 to
draw, and drink in frefli air 5 and they are made after this faQii-
on, for profped, as well as pleafure.
Thofe houles of twoftories, have many of them very large
upper rooms, which have many double doors in the fides of
them, like thofe in our Balconies, to open and let in freih air,
which is likewifc conveyed in unto them, by many leflfer
lights made in the walls of thofe rooms, which are always
free and open 5 The ufe of glafs windows, or any other (hut
tings, being not known there, nor in any other very hot Coun-
treys.
Neither have they any Chimneys in their buildings, becaufe
they never uiake any ufe of fire but to drefs their food, which fire
they make againft firm wall, or without their Tents againft
fome bank of Earth, as remote as may be from the places where
they ufe ro keep, that they may receive no annoyance from the
heat thereof.
It is their manner in many places, to plant about., and
amongft their buildings, trees which grow high and broad,
the fhadow whereof keeps their houfes by far more cool ,
this I obferv'd in a fpecial manner when we were ready
to enter Amadavar for it appeared to us, as if we had been
entring a Wood, rather than a City. That Amadavar is very
large and populous City, entred by many fair Gates girt about
with an high and thick Wall of Brick, which mounts above the
tops of their houfes, without which wall there are no fuburbs.
Mole