"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" [‎٤‎١‎٨] (٥٠٨/٤٣٩)

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A Vdyagejo EAST-INDIA,
they will beftow any thing upon you tomorrow. Pol-
licitis divites^ moft rich in promires^ in performances not fo.
That being true of many of thofe Mahometans ^ which Livil
fometimeslpake of Hanmbal^ that he flood moll: to his Promife
when it was moft for his Profit^ [though;, to do the Mahometans
in general right, fuch as are Merchants and Traders, areexad
in their dealings'] or, as writes of the Kin^
who was called bwav 5 as being ever about to give, but feldom
giving.
But.for the Hindooes^ or Heathens, the ancient inhabitants of
Eaft-India, they are a very induftrious people, very diligent in
all the works of their particular Callings, believing that
Bread, fweeteft, and moft favory , which is gain'd by fweat.
Thefe are for the generality the people that plant and till the
gi^und: Thefe they which make thofe curious Manufactures
that Empire-affords 5 working, as we fay, with tooth and
nail 5 Employing their ears and toes, as well as their fingers, to
affift them [ by holding threds of filk] in the making of fome
things they work. Thefe are a people who are not afraid of a
Lirn m the way, of a Lion in the fir eets , as the flothful man is
Prw : 26.13, but they lay hold on the prefent time, the oppor
tunity, to fet upon their bufinefles which they are to do today.,
tfiey being .very laborious in their feveral imployments, and
v^ry fiqiiare and exaft to make good all their engagements.
Which appears much ia their jnftnefs manifefted unto thofe
that trtide with them > for if a Man will put it unto their Confci-
enc-es to fell the Commodity he defires to buy at as low a rate
as he can afford it, they will deal fquarely, and honeftly with
him ^ but if in thofe bargainings a man offer them much leis
than their let price, they will be apt to fay. What, doftthou
think me a ChriJUan^xhu I would go about to deceive thee ?
It is a moft lad and horrible thing to confider, whatfcandal
there is brought upon the Chriftian Religion , by the loofneft,
and remifnefs, by the exorbitances of many which»come a-
mongft them 5 who profefs ^themfelves Chriftians^ of whom I
have often heard the Natives [_ who live near the Port where
our Ships arrive] fay thus^ in broken Englifh, which they have
gotten , ChriSiian Religion, Devil Religion 5 Chriiiian much
drunks, chriffian much do wrong, much beat- much ahufa
others,- ■
But to return again unto the people of Eaji India : Though
the Chrifcians which come amongft them do not fuch horrible
things , yet they do enough to make Chriftianity it felf evil
Ipoken of 3 as a Religion that deferves more to be abhorred,
than imbraced. For truly it is a fad fight there to behold a dunk-
en Chriftian, and a fbber Indian 3 a temperate Indian, and a
Chriftian given up to his Appetite. An Indian that is juft and
kjuare in his dealing, a Chriftian not fb ^ a laborious Indian 3
and an idle Chriftian 5 as if he were born onely to fold his
Arms,
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