"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" [‎٤‎٤‎٦] (٥٠٨/٤٦٧)

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ed, if there be any credit to be given to fome men of much inte
grity that lived amongft them 3 who made it a great part of their
bufinefsto be fatisfied in many of the particulars here fpokenofj
or if I might truft mine own Eyes and Ears that faw and heard
much of it5which could have enabled me to have written a great
deal more concerning the Ceremonies, CuJioms^vf'M con
ceivings, and mad Idolatries of this people, as of the Hindoos
fpoken of before., if I durft have thrown away more time upon
them , all which would have made my Judicious Reader thus
to have concluded with mc 5 that thofe Mahometans and
Heathens ground very many of their Opinions upon Cuftom,
Tradition^ and Phantfie 5 not Reafon, much left upon fafe
Rules that might lead them into^ and after keep them in, tke
way of Truth. They efteeming it a very great boldnefsj a
very high Prefumption, to be wifer in their Religion then their
Fore-fathers were (as many of the more ignorant fort of Papifts
will often fay, though it be d'ircdly againft themfelves) and
therefore are defirous to do 5 and to believe as their Anceftors
have before them 5 to fare as they have fared 5 and as they
have fped to/peed 5 though they perifti everlaftingly with
.them, neyer confidering of, or ruminating on thofe things which
t}iey hold and maintain for truths 5 being like unto unclean
B^fts, which chew not the Cudd.
. So much of that people in general: Icome now more particu
larly to fpeak
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Of their King the gmz/'Mogol, his difcent, &c.
'^'Ow thofe Mahometans and Gentiles I have named, live
iNl under the fubjeftion of the Great Mogol, which Name,
or rather Title, ( if my Information abufe me not) fignifies
CircumcUed, as himfelf, and the Mahometans are 5 and there
fore for his moft general Title he is called the Great Mogol,
as the chief of the circumcifed, or chief of the circumcifion.
He is lineally defcended from that moft famous Conquerour,
called in our Stories Tantberlain, concerning whofe Birth and
original Hiftories much differ, and therefore I cannot de
termine it 5 but, in this, all that write of him agree, that he ha-
ving got together very many huge multitudes of Men, made
very great Conquefts in the South-Eaft parts of the World,
not onely on Bajazet the Emperour of the Turks , but alfo in
Eaft-India A and elfe-where 5 for. What cannot force by multi
tudes do } This Tamberlain in their Stories is called Amir
limur, or the great Prince and Emperour. Itmur, who (as they
fay ) towards his end, either by an hurt received in his Thigh,
or
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