"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" [‎٤‎٠‎٢] (٥٠٨/٤٢٣)

402 A Voyage to E AS T-I N D I A, &c.
One of thofe deferted Mofqnits^ with fome large Torab near
k 5 both vaulted over head (which (hall be after defcribed)
were the bed: places thereto be gotten for my Lord AmbafTa-
dpur and his Company to lodge and be in, we carrying our
bedding, and all things appertainirtg thereto, all neceffaries be^
longing to our Kitchin, and every thing bfcfide for bodily ufe^
from place to place, as we occafionally removed. Here we
ftayed with the Mogolbom the middle of April, till the twenti-
, ethof September following, and then began our pogrefs with
him, towards the City Amadavar, . ■, \
Our abiding place at Mandaa, was very near one of the fides
of that vaft Wildernefi, out of which/ome of thofewild beafts
oft-times in the night came about our habitation, and feldom
teturned back without a Sheep, or a Coat, or a Kid, fome of
which we always kept about us for our provifion. And it was
a wonderful great mercy, thofe furious, and ravening, and
hunger-bit Creatures, did not make their prey fometimes in the
dark and filent nights, while we were fleeping, on fome of our
bodies^ the fore-part of our dwelling (kriding upon pillars 5 and
there was nothing in thofc.open diftances, that had any ftrength
in it to keep them from us-
One night, early in the Eveningj there was a great Lion
which we law,came into our Yard, (though our Yard was com-
palfed^ about with a ftone-wall, that was not low.) And my
Lord Ambaffadour having a: little white neat Shock, that ran
out barking ^t hin), the Lion prefently fnapt him up,leapt again
over the wall, and a way he went.
'or ^ut for a ravening and roaring Lion, as I believe that he can
not be made tame when he is old 5 yet certainly he may be bred
tame,] being kept full, and high fed. For the Mogol, at my
being there, had a very great Lion (I often faw^ which went up
and down 3 amongft the people that frequented his Court, gent-
Jy as a dog, and never did hurt^only he had fome Keepers which
did continually wait upon him. ,
For thole wild and cruel Beafts,one of our Englifh-men watch-
jng in a tree by night,(that ftqod not far from our dwelling)with
a hre-lock charg d with fomelmallbullets,(hot a Tigre,andkird
him Itone-deadgas he was coming towards us.lt was a large beaft.
higher than an IriQi-Greyhound,withgrizled hair,a longhead,&
'harp and fhort picked ears,having a mouth fil'd with cruel teeth^
arter which (we ufually keeping a little fire without our houfe
evei ynight)were not fo much troubled] with thofe night-walkers.
Now to return to that from which I am occafionally digref-
.ed,T told you before what their buildings are. And now for
the furniture that thegreateft men have in them, itisC«r^/«-
pdUx^ very little 5 they being not beautified with hangings, nor
wirh any thing belides to line their walls 5 but where they are
belt adorned, they are kept very white, and fet off with a little
neat painting and nothing elfe^for they have no Chairs,no ftools,
? nor