"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" [‎٤‎٣‎٧] (٥٠٨/٤٥٨)

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lives of all inferiour Creatures, whence ( as before I told you)
they give large money to prefervc the lives of their Kine^ (a
reafon for this you (ball have afterward J and I have often ob-
ferved 3 that when our Englifti boyes there ha.ye out of wanton-
nefs been killing of Flies ftherefwarmi ng in abundance) they
would be very much troubled at it; and, if they could not per-
fwade them to fuffer thofe poor Creatures to live, they would
give them money, or fomething elfe, to forbear that (as they
conceived) Cruelty.
As for themfelyes ( I mean a great number of them ) they
will not deprive the mo(fc ufelefs, and mpft offtniive Creatures
of Life, not Snakes, and other venomous things that may kill
thema faying, that it is their nature tado hurt, and they cannot
help it: but as for themfelvcs they further fay, that God hath
given them Reafon to (hun thofe Creatures ? but not liberty tQ
deftroy them.
And in order to this their epp^, the Bama/fs ( who are the
moft tender-hearted in cafe of all that people) have Spittles
( as they fay ) on purpofe to recover lame Birds and Beads.
Some ground for this their' tendernefs topJy proceeds from
this confideratipn , ;hat they C^Pt-.gWe Life ^ jthemeaneft of
the fenfible Creature and tbsre^j^'tJiinV ,they may'not
take the Lives of gpy pf th^qs:' for therppp^^^prm which
crawleth upon the face pf^ the j)arth, ^ Ham An '
geluf y ( as one of the Ancients fpeaks ) live tor the prefent as
much as the Angels, and cannot be willing to part with llpt
Life;, and therefore they imagine that it is moft injurious by vio
lence to take it.
But ( as I conceive) the moft principal caufe why they
thus forbear to take the lives of inferiour Creatures, proceeds
from their obedience unto a precept given them by one ol: their
principal,, and moft highly efteemed Prophets and Law-givers
they call Bremaw , others they have in very high efteem, aqd ( the
name of one of them is Kam^ of another V ermijjar f I am ignorant
of the names of others, and I conceive that my Reader wilf^ot
much care to know them. But for hin* they call Bremw^ they
have received (as they fay,) many precepts, which they are
careful to obferve, andthefirft of them. This
Thou fialt not kill any living Creature vphatfoev^r it be, having
Life in the fame % for thou art a Creature, and fo is iH thou art
i*clued with Life, andfo is it 5 thoujjjalt not therefore fpll the Lif ?
of any of thy fellow-Creatures that live.
Other Precepts (they fay) were delivered unto them by
their Law-giver about their devotions, in their and
worfiippings where they are commanded,
To ohjerve times for fajiing, and hours for watching that they
may he the better fittedfor them* . _ , T , . ,
Other dire&ions they have about their Feltivais where
in they are required, To