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preach. And there is one which sitteth by them to take that which the
people bring. It is diuided among them. They haue none other ceremonies nor
seruice that I could see, but onely preaching.

I went from Pegu to Iamahey [Marginal note: Iamahey fiue and twenty dayes
iourney Northeastward from Pegu.] which is in the countrey of the
Langeiannes, whom we call Iangomes; it is fiue and twenty dayes iourney
Northeast from Pegu. In which iourney I passed many fruitfull and pleasant
countreys. The countrey is very lowe, and hath many faire riuers. The
houses are very bad, made of canes, and couered with straw. Heere are many
wilde buffes and elephants. Iamahey is a very faire and great towne, with
faire houses of stone, well peopled, the streets are very large, the men
very well set and strong, with a cloth about them, bare headed and bare
footed: for in all these countreys they weare no shoes. The women be much
fairer then those of Pegu. Heere in all these countreys they haue no wheat.
They make some cakes of rice. Hither to Iamahey come many marchants out of
China, and bring great store of muske, golde, siluer, and many other things
of China worke. Here is great store of victuals: they haue such plenty that
they will not milke the buffles, as they doe in all other places. Here is
great store of copper and beniamin. In these countreys when the people be
sicke they make a vow to offer meat vnto the diuell, if they escape: and
when they be recouered they make a banket with many pipes and drummes and
other instruments, and dansing all the night, and their friends come and
bring gifts, cocos, figges, arrecaes, and other fruits, and with great
dauncing and reioycing they offer to the diuell, and say, they giue the
diuel to eat, and driue him out. When they be dancing and playing they will
cry and hallow very loud; and in this sort they say they driue him away.
And when they be sicke a Tallipoy or two euery night doth sit by them and
sing, to please the diuell that he should not hurt them. [Sidenote: They
burne their dead.] And if any die he is caried vpon a great frame made like
a tower, with a couering all gilded with golde made of canes caried with
foureteene or sixteene men, with drummes and pipes and other instruments
playing before him to a place out of the towne and there is burned. He is
accompanied with all his friends and neighbours, all men: and they giue to
the tallipoies or priests many mats and cloth: and then they r