"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" [‎٤‎٥‎٣] (٥٠٨/٤٧٤)

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- in one place of Government 3 but removes them ufually fafter
they have exercifed that Power 3 which was given unto them in
place, for one year) unto fome other place of Government re
mote from the former^ wherein they exercife their power * and
this that Ring doth, that thofe 3 which be his Subftitutes, may
not in any place grow popular.- r ■*'
I told you before that this people are^ very neat ? (ha
ving themfelves fo often, as that they feel the Rafor almoft
every day 5 but when that Ring fends any of them unto any
place of Government, or upon any other imployment, they
cut not their hair at all, till they return again into his prefence $
as if chey defirednot to appear beautiful, or to give themfeives
any content in this while they live out of the Rings fight 5 and
therefore the Ring, as foon as he fees them, bids them cut
their hair.
When the Mogol by Letters (ends-his Commands to any of his
Governours, thofe Papecs areentertain'd with as much re/ped:
as if himfelf were prefent 5 for thi Governour having intelli
gence that liich Letters are come near him, himfelf with other
inferiour Officers ride forth to meet the or Meffenger
that brings them 5 and as foon as^he fees thofe Letters he alights
from his horfe, falls, down on the eafrth, and then takes them
from the Meflenger and lays thefti on his head, whereon he
binds them faft, and then returning to his plade of publick
meeting, for difpatch of bufinefles, he readd them, and anfwers
their contents with all ^are and diligence. - ^
The Ring oft times in his own perfon, and fo his Subftitutes
appointed Governours for Provinces and Cities, Judge in all
matters Criminal that concern Life and Death. There are
other Officers to aflift them, which are called Cut-walls (whole
Office is like that of our Sheriffs in England) andthefe have ma
ny fubftitutes under them, whofe bufinefs it is to apprehend,
and to bring before thefe Judges fuch as are to be tried for things
Criminal, or Capital, where the offender (as before) knows
prefently what will become of him. And thofe Officers wait
likewifeon other Judges there, which are called Cadees, who
only meddle with Contracts and Debts and other bufinefTes of
this nature 'twixt man and man. Now thefe Officers arreft
Debtors, and bring them before thofe Judges, and their Sureties
too, bound as with us in Contrads, confirmed fas before,) under
their hands andfeals, and if they give not content unto thofe
which complain of them, they will impriibn their perfbns,
where they fhall find and feel the weight of fetters ^ nay, many
times they will fell their Perfons, their Wives and Children in
to bondage, when they cannot fatisfie their debts 3 And the cu-
ftomof that Country bears with fuch hard and pitilefs courfes,
fuch as was complain'd of by the poor Widow unto tne Py®'
phet Elifia j who when her husband was dead, and (he not able
to pay, the Creditor came and took ber txoofons to be bond -men,
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