eturne to the
house and there make a feast for two dayes: and then the wife with all the
neighbours wiues and her friends go to the place where he was burned, and
there they sit a certaine time and cry and gather the pieces of bones which
be left vnburned and bury them, and then returne to their houses and make
an end of all mourning. And the men and women which be neere of kin do
shaue their heads, which they do not vse except it be for the death of a
friend: for they much esteeme of their haire.

Caplan [Marginal note: Caplan is the place the rubies and other precious
stones are found.] is the place where they finde the rubies, saphires, and
spinelles: it standeth sixe dayes iourney from Aua in the kingdome of Pegu.
There are many great high hilles out of which they digge them. None may go
to the pits but onely those which digge them.

In Pegu, and in all the countreys of Aua, Langeiannes, Siam, and the
Bramas, the men weare bunches or little round balles in their priuy
members: some of them ware two and some three. They cut the skin and so put
them in, one into one side and another into the other side; which they do
when they be 25 or 30 yeeres olde, and at their pleasure they take one or
more of them as they thinke good. When they be maried the husband is for
euery child which his wife hath, to put in one vntill he come to three and
then no more: for they say the women doe desire them. They were inuented
because they should not abuse the male sexe. For in times past all those
countries were so giuen to that villany, that they were very scarce of
people. It was also ordained that the women should not haue past three
cubits of cloth in their nether clothes, which they binde about them; which
are so strait, that when they go in the streets, they shew one side of the
leg bare aboue the knee. [Sidenote: Anthony Galuano writeth of these bals.]
The bunches aforesayd be of diuers sorts: the least be as big as a litle
walnut, and very round: the greatest are as big as a litle hennes egge:
some are of brasse and some of siluer: but those of siluer be for the king,
and his noble men. These are gilded and made with great cunning, and ring
like a litle bell. There are some made of leade, which they call Selwy
because they ring but litle: and these be of lesser price for the poorer
sort. The king sometimes taketh his out, and giueth them to his noblemen as
a great gift: and because he hath vsed them, they esteeme them greatly.
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