not
listed, (listing Soldiers being only upon extraordinary occasions) but
are by Succession the Son after the Father. [The Soldiers have Lands
allotted them instead of Pay.] For which Service they injoy certain
Lands and Inheritances, which is instead of Wages or Pay. This duty
if they omit or neglect they loose or forfeit their Inheritance. Or
if they please to be released or discharged, they may, parting with
their Land. And then their Commander placeth another in their room;
but so long as the Land lies void, he converts the Profits to his own
proper use. And he that after takes it, gives a Bribe to the Commander,
who yet notwithstanding will not permit him to hold it above two or
three years, unless he renew his Bribes.

[To prevent the Soldiers from Plotting.] The Soldiers of the High
Lands called Cande Uda, are dispersed all over the Land; so that one
scarcely knows the other, the King not suffering many Neighbours and
Townsmen to be in one Company; which hath always heretofore been so
ordered for fear of Conspiracies.

[The manner of sending them out on Expeditions.] When the King sends
any of these Commanders with their Armies abroad to War or otherwise,
sometimes they see not his face, but he sends out their Orders to them
by a Messenger; sometimes admits them into his Presence, and gives
them their Orders with his own mouth, but nothing in Writing. And when
several of them are sent together upon any Design, there is not any
one appointed to be Chief Commander or General over the whole Army;
but each one as being Chief over his own Men, disposeth and ordereth
them according to his pleasure; the others do the like. Which sometimes
begets disagreement among themselves, and by that means their Designs
are frustrated. Neither doth he like or approve, that the great
Commanders of his Soldiers should be very intimate or good Friends,
lest they should conspire against him, nor will he allow them to
disagree in such a degree that it be publickly known and observed.

[The King requires all the Captains singly to send him intelligence
of their Affairs.] And when there is any tidings to send the King,
they do not send in general together by consent, but each one sends
particularly by himself. And there common custom and practice is to
inform what they can one against another, thinking thereby to obtain
the most favour and good will from the King. By this means there can
nothing, be done or said, but he hath notice the