"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" [‎٤‎٢‎٦] (٥٠٨/٤٤٧)

426 A Voyage toEAS T-IN D I A, &c.
But I'll return again to that people 3 that I may acquaint my
Reader with one thing of fpecial obfervation ^ and 'tis this:
That there is not one among the Mahometans (of any under-
ftanding) which at any time mentions the name of our bleiled
Saviour called there Hazaret Eefa^the Lord Chrift^but he makes
mention of it with high reverence and refped. For they fay of
Chrift that he was a good man., and a jufl^ that he lived witkm
fin, that he did greater miracles then ever any before or iince
him^nay further they,call him Rha-how-Alla^he breath of God
but how he ftiouldbe the Son of Cod 3 they cannot conceive'
and therefore cannot believe.
Perhaps the Socinians firft took that their opinion from thefe
which bids them to have every thing they receive as truth, to
be cleared up unto them by the ftrength of Reafon, as if there
were no need of the exercife of Faith.
And truly (1 muft needs confels) that to believe the Incar
nation of the Son of Godj is one of the hardeft and greateft
tasks for Faith to encounter withall, that God ftiould be made
a Man, that this Man Chriftfhould be born of a Virgin, that
Lifefliould fpring from Death 5 and that from Contempt and
Scorn 3 Triumph 5 andVictory (hould come^f.ButChriftians muft
bind up all their thoughts, as to thefe 3 in that excellent medi
tation of Picus MiranduU , faying, Mir an dam Dei Incarnate
nem , 8cc. concerning that admirable, and wonderful Incar
nation of Chrift the Son of God, I (hall not fay much ^ it be
ing fiifficient for me, as for all others that look for benefit by
Chrift, to believe, that he was begotten, and that he was
born. Thefe are Articles of our Faith 5 and we arenotChri-
ftians,if we believe them not.
I may feem very frrange therefore, that the Mahometans
("who underftand themfelves better) fhould have fuch a very
high efteem of our Bletfed Saviour Chrift, and yet think us
who profefsour felvesChriftians to be fo unworthy, or fo un
clean, as that they will not eat with us, any thing that is of our
dreiling, nor yet of any thing that isdreffed in our veilels.
There are more particulars which challenge a room in this
Seftion as their proper place: but becaufe I would not have it
fwell too big, I (hall here part it, and fpeak furthet
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