they cal
pericose, wherewithall they go from place to place and buy Rice and many
other things: these boates haue 24. or 26. oares to rowe them, they be
great of burthen, but haue no couerture. Here the Gentiles haue the water
of Ganges in great estimation, for hauing good water neere them, yet they
will fetch the water of Ganges a great way off, and if they haue not
sufficient to drinke, they will sprinkle a litle on them, and then they
thinke themselues well. From Satagam I trauelled by the countrey of the
king of Tippara or porto Grande, with whom the Mogores or Mogen haue almost
continuall warres. The Mogen which be of the kingdom of Recon and Rame, be
stronger then the king of Tippara, so that Chatigan or porto Grande is
oftentimes vnder the king of Recon.

There is a country 4. daies iourney from Couche or Quicheu before
mentioned, which is called Bottanter and the citie Bottia, the king is
called Dermain; the people whereof are very tall and strong, and there are
marchants which come out of China, and they say out of Muscouia or
Tartarie. And they come to buy muske, cambals, agats, silke, pepper and
saffron like the saffron of Persia. The countrey is very great, 3. moneths
iourney. There are very high mountains in this countrey, and one of them so
steep that when a man is 6. daies iourney off it, he may see it perfectly.
Vpon these mountains [Marginal note: These seeme to be the mountains of
Iamus, called by the people Cumao.] are people which haue eares of a spanne
long: if their eares be not long, they call them apes. They say that when
they be vpon the mountaines, they see ships in the Sea sayling to and fro;
but they know not from whence they come, nor whether they go. There are
marchants which come out of the East, they say, from vnder the sunne, which
is from China, which haue no beards, and they say there it is something
warme. But those which come from the other side of the mountains which is
from the North, say there it is very cold. [Sidenote: The apparel of the
Tartarie marchants.] These Northern merchants are apparelled with woollen
cloth and hats, white hosen close, and bootes which be of Moscouia or
Tartarie. They report that in their countrey they haue very good horses,
but they be litle: some men haue foure, fiue, or sixe hundred horses and
kine: they liue with milke and fleshe. [Sidenote: Cowe tailes in great
request.] They cut the tailes of their kine, and sell them very deere, for
they bee in g