reat request, and much esteemed in those partes. The haire of
them is a yard long, the rumpe is aboue a spanne long: they vse to hang
them for brauerie upon the heades of their Elephantes: they bee much vsed
in Pegu and China: they buie and sell by scores vpon the ground. The people
be very swift on foote.

From Chatigan in Bengala, I came to Bacola; the king whereof is a Gentile,
a man very well disposed and delighteth much to shoot in a gun. His
countrey is very great and fruitful, and hath store of Rice, much cotton
cloth, and cloth of silke. The houses be very faire and high builded, the
streetes large, the people naked, except a litle cloth about their waste.
The women weare great store of siluer hoopes about their neckes and armes,
and their legs are ringed with siluer and copper, and rings made of
elephants teeth.

From Bacola I went to Serrepore which standeth vpon the riuer of Ganges,
the king is called Chondery. They be all hereabout rebels against their
king Zelabdim Echebar: for here are so many riuers and Ilands, that they
flee from one to another, whereby his horsemen cannot preuaile against
them. Great store of cotton cloth is made here.

Sinnergan is a towne sixe leagues from Serrepore, where there is the best
and finest cloth made of cotton that is in all India. The chiefe king of
all these countries is called Isacan, and he is chiefe of all the other
kings, and is a great friend to all Christians. The houses here, as they be
in the most part of India, are very litle, and couered with strawe, and
haue a fewe mats round about the wals, and the doore to keepe out the
Tygers and the Foxes. Many of the people are very rich. Here they will eate
no flesh, nor kill no beast: they liue of Rice, milke, and fruits. They goe
with a litle cloth before them, and all the rest of their bodies is naked.
Great store of Cotton cloth goeth from hence, and much Rice, wherewith they
serue all India, Ceilon, Pegu, Malacca, Sumatra, and many other places.

I went from Serrepore the 28. of Nouember 1586. for Pegu in a small ship or
foist of one Albert Carauallos, and so passing downe Ganges, and passing by
the Island of Sundiua, porto Grande, or the countrie of Tippera, the
kingdom of Recon and Mogen, leauing them on our left side with a faire wind
at Northwest: our course was South and by East, which brought vs to the
barre of Negrais in Pegu: if any contrary wind had come, we had throwen
many of our things ouer-boord: for