"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" [‎٤‎٥‎٢] (٥٠٨/٤٧٣)

452 AVoyagetoEAST-lNOik, <&c.
But to return again to the place from whence I have made | ^ n0ni
fome excurfion. When I was in India jhere was one fentenced by
the Mogol himfelfj for killing his own father, to dye thus 5 firft
he commanded that this Parricide fhould be bound alive by his
heels faftned to a fmall iron chain 3 which was tied to the hind-leg ^
of a great Elephant} and then that this Elephant ftould drag ^
him after him one whole remove of that King, from one place 1 1
to another, which was about ten miles diftant, that fo all his fiefti ^ 1
might be worn off his bones, and fo it was, when we fa w him in every
the way following that King in hisProgrefs 5 for he appeared pUce
then to us a Skeleton, rather than a body. cut no
There was another condemned to dye by the Mogol himfelf asiftl
fwhiie we were ztAmzdavar) for killing hisown Mother ^ and anyco
at this the King was much troubled to think of a death, fuita- tW
ble for fo horrid a crime 3 but, upon a little paufc, he ad- theirk
judged him to be ftung to death by Snakes, which was accord- Whc
ingly done. I told you before that there are fome Mountebanks Goven
there, which keep great Snakes to (hew tricks with them > one as if hi
of thofe fellows was prefently called for to bring his Snakes to gence
do that execution, who came to the place where that wretched inferb
Creature vyas appointed to dye, and found him there all naked thatbr
(except a little covering before) and trembling. Then fudden- from 1
ly the Mountebank (having firft angred and provoked the vene- from t
mous creatures,) put one of them to his Thigh, which prefently binds I
twin d it lejf about that part, till it came near his Groin, and meetin
there bit him till blood followed, the other was faftned to the theirc
cut-fide of his other Thigh, twining about it (for thofe Snakes Tk
thus kept, are long and flender) and there bit him likewife 5 not- appok
w it Itanding, the wretch kept upon his feet near a quarter of matters
an hour, before which time the Snakes were taken from him ; ot he r c
fefcom^med exceedingly of a fire that with much tor- Qfai,
ment had poflefled all his Limbs, and his whole body began to nv fub
fwell exceedingly, like NafuJw, bit by a Lybian Serpent, called a „d tu
a Prejier : Now much after this manner did the flinging of thofe Crimin
Snakes work upon that wretch ; and about half an hour after p rdent
ey were taken from him, the foul of that unnatural monfter a
left his groaning Carkafs, and fo went to its place. Andcer- on | v m
m a?' a 'J 10 , ' a ' r nam ed fo fentenced, and lb executed, t jjj s _J
moftjuftly deferved tobe handled with all feverity, for taking D
^ '^of f hole from whom they hatjreceiv'd their own. ton hn
i " IC 0 , our aml 'y did behold the execution done upon the t J 1
mr / . a11 'he paflages of it 5 and for my part I ' S'
g la ve fctn it too, but that I had rather go a great way not . j
to fee, then one ftep to behold fuch a fight. g g }
r ttr I, 11 '" xam P' c 'hat King, his Governours, deputed and ,."1°
to imnn^ wr nce$ ties = proceed in the courfe of Juftice, | a ^
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That King never fuffers any of his Vicegerents to tarry long ^
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