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A09829	The most noble and famous trauels of Marcus Paulus, one of the nobilitie of the state of Venice, into the east partes of the world, as Armenia, Persia, Arabia, Tartary, with many other kingdoms and prouinces. No lesse pleasant, than profitable, as appeareth by the table, or contents of this booke. Most necessary for all sortes of persons, and especially tor trauellers. Translated into English; Travels of Marco Polo. English	Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1579 (1579)	STC 20092; ESTC S105055	116,899	196

speake the Persian tong and honour Idols They haue scant of victuals From this Ilande you can not sée the North Starre little nor muche Beyonde it standeth the Realme of Ferlech The people are Moores They do honor Martin Piniolo which is Mahomet There dwell others in the Mountaynes that haue no kind of law They doe liue as beastes honouring the first thing that they do sée in the morning as their god They doe eate all kinde of dead fleshe and the fl●sh of man caring not howe nor yet after what sorte it dyeth Of the realme named Bassina and of the Vnicornes and other wilde beastes CHAP. 111. GOing from Ferlech you come vnto the realme of Bassyna wher the people are without law liuing as beastes being subiect at their will vnder the gret Cane although they do giue him no tribute sauing that at sometimes when it pleaseth them they do sende vnto him some strāge thing In this realme there be Apes of diuerse sorts and Vnicornes little lesse than Elephants hauing a head like vnto a swyne and alwayes hanging it downward to the grounde and standeth with a good will in Cieno or miery puddel They haue but one horne in their forehead wherby only they are called Vnicornes theyr horne is large and blacke their tong is rough and full of prickles long and thicke The Apes of this country are small hauing a face like vnto a childe and those in that countrey do flaye them so that they looke like vnto a naked childe They séeth it and dresse it with swéete spices so that they haue no euil ayre nor strong sent and so sodden they doe sende them aboute in the worlde to sell saying they be sodden children In this countrey there be haukes as blacke as Rauens very strong and good to hauke with Of the realme named Samara and of many straunge things that are founde in the sayd countrey CHAP. 112. GOing from the Realme of Baxina you ●nter into the realme of Samara beyng ●n this same Iland where I Marcus ●aulus was fiue moneths by fortune of weather and for feare of the euill peop●e of that countrey for the most parte ●here liueth vppon mans fleshe From hence you sée not the North starre nor yet the other stars that rule the principal winde the people there are rustical and worshippe Idols there is singular good fish they haue no wine but they get it in this wise They haue manye trees like vnto the paulme trée they breake the braunches and from them commeth water as it commeth from the vyne This licour is white and redde like vnto Wine béeing very perfect to drinke there is great plentie of it Another realme there is in this Iland which is named Deragoya the people are rusticall and worship Idols They haue no king and speake the Persian speach In this Iland there groweth great plentie of the Indian nuts They haue this custome in this Iland that when any falleth sicke his kinsfolke demaunde of them if the patient shall liue or dy Then these maisters make Diuellish inchauntments if they say that he shall escape they let him lye and if they say that he shall dye they sende for the Butchers whiche stoppe his breath till he dye and when he is deade they séeth the bodie ▪ and the parents eate the flesh and kepe his bones in a chest Thys they do saying if the wormes had eaten the fleshe they should die for hunger and the soule of the deade bodie shoulde iuffer greate penurie in the other world They do hide this chest with the bones in a caue of the mountaines so that it maye not be founde All the straungers that they doe finde they kil and eate them if they be not ransomed for money as soone as they take them Of the Kingdome named Lambry and of the straunge things there founde and of the realme Samphur and of the things founde there CHAP. 113. LAmbry is another realme in this Ilande where there is great plentie of spices The people are Idolaters In this realme there be men that haue feathers about their priuities great and bigge and of the length of a goose quill The fift realme of this Iland Iaua is named Samphur where there is found the best Camphore that is in the world and it is solde for the waight of gold here they do vse the Wine of trées In this prouince there is a kinde of great trée and it hath a very thinne ryne and vnder the ryne it is full of singular meale and of thys meale they do make perfect meats of the which I Marcus paulus did eat many times Of tvvo Ilandes and of the euill liuing and beastlynesse of the people CHAP. 114. GOing from Lambry sayling 140. myles towardes the North you come vnto two Ilands the one is named Necumea and the other Nangania The people of Necumea liue like beastes the men and women go naked couering no part of their secrets they do vse carnallye like beasts or dogs in the stréets or wheresoeuer they doe finde without any shame at all hauing no difference nor regard the father vnto the daughter nor the sonne vnto the mother more than vnto another woman but euery one doth as he lusteth or may Here there be mountaines of Sandolos or Saūders and of nuts of India and of Gardamonia and many other spyces Nangama is the other Ilande it is fayre and great The people therof are Idolaters they liue beastly and eate mens flesh they are very cruel they` haue heades lyke great Mastie dogges and the men and women haue téeth like dogs In this Ilande there is great plentie of spices Of the Iland Saylan and many noble things which be founde there CHAP. 115. AFter that you go from Nangana you go towarde the Occident and declynyng against Arbyno about ten hundred myles you come vnto the Iland of Saylan whiche is the beste and the greatest Iland in the world being in compasse thirtie thousand myles In this Iland there is a very rich king the people are Idolatours and they goe all naked in this Ilande sauing that they do weare a linnen cloth before their secretes There is great plentie of Rice and of cattel and of the Wyne of trées In this Iland are founde the best Rubies that bée in the worlde and they be founde in no other place than here And here there be founde manye precious stones as Topases Amatistes and of diuerse other kindes Thys king hath the fairest Rubie in the world the length of a spanne and is as thicke as ones arme as redde as fire glistering without any blemmish The men of this countrey are wonderfull leacherous and they are worth nothing for the warres Of the prouince named Moabar vvherin there be fiue kingdomes and of the noble things that be founde there CHAP. 116. PAssing from thys sayde place and trauelling towardes the Occident fortie myles you come vnto a greate prouince nam●d Moabar in the great India This is the greatest and the best

vnto Carras a Citie in Egipt with his wife foure sonnes and as many seruaunts In this Citie his wife two sonnes and his seruauntes died of the plague and finallye after long perilous and daungerous pilgrimages he came vnto Venice his own countrey Pogio. I Demaunding him of the life and customes of the Indians he gaue me aunsweare that all India was diuided into thrée parts the one from Persia vnto the riuer Indo another from the riuer Indo vnto the riuer Gange and the other stādeth beyond these and excéedeth the others in riches humanitie and pollicie and are equal vnto vs in customes life and pollicie for they haue sumptuous and neate houses ▪ and all their vessels and housholde stuffe very cleane they estéeme to liue as noble people auoyded of all villanie and crueltie being courteous people riche Merchauntes in so muche that there is one merchaunte hauing fortie shippes for his owne trade and euery one of them is estéemed in 50000. Duckets These only vse as we do tables couered with table clothes and haue theyr Cupboardes of plate for the other Indians eate vppon a thing layde vppon the grounde The Indians haue neyther vines nor Wine they doe make their drinke of grounde Rice mingled with water putting vnto it a certaine redde coloure all tempered with the iuyce of a certayne trée Also they make their pottage like vnto their Wine In the Ilande named Taprobana they doe cutte the braunches of a certaine trée whiche is named Tall and leaue them hanging and out of them there runneth a swéete licour whiche they vse to drinke Also there is a lake betwéene the riuers Indo and Gange of a maruellous sauerie and pleasaunt water to drinke and al those that dwell there about drink of it and also farre off for they haue set horse from place to place ●or the purpose so that they haue it brought fresh euery daye they haue all want of breade they liue vppon Farre or Rice fleshe milke and chéese They haue gret plentie of Hennes Capons Partridges Feysauntes and manye other wildefoules They doe vse much fowling and hunting They shaue their beardes and nourishe a Heare tayle and some tye their haire wyth a silken lace behinde their shoulders like a tayle and so they weare them vnto the warres They haue Barbars as we haue they are tall of bodye as we be and also in their time of life they doe lye in sumptuous beddes and couered with quilles of Cotten Their apparell is diuerse according vnto the diuersitie of the countrey They haue all scante of woollen cloth they do vse cloth of lyne and of cruell and make apparell of it As well the men as the women couer their secréetes vnto their hammes with a péece of linnen vpon it they put a vesture of linnen or of silke for the greate heate will not suffer them to weare more apparell and therefore they doe goe so single tyed with Crimson lace and of gold tyed as we do sée the painters make on the auntient pictures The women vse certaine thinne shoes of leather trimmed wyth Golde and cruell Also they doe weare for gallauntnesse Hoopes of golde on their armes and about their neckes about their breastes and on their legges the waight of thrée pounde set with precious stones the common women kepe theyr houses as baudes there be manye and easie to finde for they are almost in euery stréet the which with perfumes and soft oyntmentes with their tender age and beautie prouoke muche the menne for in that countrey they are muche inclyned vnto those women and for thys cause the Indians knowe not what thyng is that abhominable sinne Of manye wayes they doe dresse theyr heades but commonlye moste of them vse to couer their heades with fine lawnes wrea●hed and their haire laced with a silken lace in some other p●aces they binde theyr haire vp to their heades in manner like vnto a peare and on the knot aboue on their haire they set a pinn● of golde whereby they do hang certaine cordes of golde being of diuerse colours hanging betwéene the haires Some women vse commonly blacke haire and among them it is most estéemed Some women couer theyr heades wyth certaine painted leaues of trées and they doe not paynte their faces but those inhabiting the prouince named Cataya doe In the India within they do not consent to a man to haue but one wife In the others they haue as manye as their carnall lust wil sauing the Christian Hereticke N●storians which dwel scattered throughout all the Indias for they take but one woman The maner of their tombes is not as one in all the Indias for the moste India excéedeth other in diligence and sumptuousnesse for they doe make caues vnder grounde in trimming it with a fine wal and laye in the deade body in a precious bedde trimmed wyth Ornaments of Golde setting certaine baskettes round about wyth his moste precious apparell and put on rings as though the deade bodye shoulde enioye those things in Hell. They close the mouth of the caue very strongly that none may enter and vpon it they do make a sumptuous and rich tombe strong to abide rayne and to be the more durable but in the middle India they doe burne the deade bodies and most commonly they do burne their wiues alyue with the deade body one or manye according as hée had They doe by law burn the first wife with him although it be but one Also they doe take other wiues on this condition for to honoure him in death burning hir selfe with him and this among them is no little honour They do laye the deade bodie in a bedde trimmed with the beste apparell that he hath They do make a fyre rounde about with swéete wood and when it burneth his wife is trunly drest with hir beste aray and comming with Trumpets and Shawmes and songs merily as thoughe she did sing she goeth rounde about the fire At this there is presente the Prieste whiche they name Bachale in a Pulpit preaching vnto hir howe she muste not estéeme the life nor death saying that she shall haue in the other worlde with hir husband muche pleasure and shall possesse greate riches honour and apparell she inflamed with those words that he telleth hir after that she hath gone a certaine time rounde about the fire shée standeth nigher the Priestes Chayre or Pulpit and putteth off all hir apparell putteth on a white linnen shéete and leapeth into the fyre If some of them be fearefull for they haue séene the lyke of some that lamenteth and striueth with death after that she hath leapte in then the standers by doe throwe hir in wheather shée will or no. After they be burnte they gather the ashes and putte them into pottes and some into the graue ¶ They doe wéepe for the deade after diuers manners The inner Indians couer theyr heades with a sacke and some putte boughes of trées in the highe wayes and doe hang from the

prouince that is in the world standing in the firme land being an excellent regigion There is in thys prouince Margarites verye fayre and great This prouince is diuided into fiue kingdomes wherevpon raigneth fiue brethren legitimate In the first beginning of this prouince standeth the firste kingdome gouerned by one of those fiue brethren named Sendarba and is entituled as king of Nor here is fine great pearles in great number This king hath the tenth of all the pearls whych are founde in his kingdome The fishermen do fish these pearles from the beginning of April vntill the middest of May in a gulfe of the Sea where there is greate plentie of them they are founde in the Oysters The men and women of this realme goe all naked sauing that they do weare a certaine cloth to couer theyr priuities Also the king goeth naked and to be knowen he weareth about his necke a lace full of precious stones whyche are in number a hundereth foure in the remembrance of a hundreth foure prayers that he vseth to say in the honour of his gods morning and euening and on his armes legges féete and téeth he weareth so manye precious Stones that tenne riche Cities be not able to paye for them This king hath fiue hundreth wiues and one of them he toke from his brother In this realme there be verye faire women of themselues also they do vse paynting s●tting more beautie vnto their faces and on their bodies Thys king ha●h alwayes a greate companie with him to serue him when the king dyeth they burne his bodye and with him of their owne voluntarie willes all those that accompanied and serued him in his life time leape into the fire and burne themselues with him saying that they do go to beare their king companie in the other world and liue as they did here in this worlde Yerely this King buyeth tenne thousande horses of the countrey named Cormos at the price of fiue ounces of gold euery horse some more some lesse according vnto the goodnesse and beautie of the horse The merchaunts of Quinsay of Suffer and of Beden sell those horses vnto the merchauntes of this realme These horses lyue not in this prouince aboue one yeare by this meanes that king consumeth a greate part of his treasure in horses In this countrey they doe vse this custome that is when a man is condemned to dy he is begged of the Prince that he maye kill himselfe and when they haue obtayned the kings good will he killeth himselfe in the loue and honour of his Idols After thys wise hauing obtayned the kings grace and fauour the wife of this malefactour and kinred taketh him tying about his necke twelue kniues and in this manner he is carried by them vnto a place of iustice where he crieth as lowde as he may saying I doe kill my selfe in the honour and for the loue of suche an Idoll and with one of these kniues striketh himselfe and then with another vntyll such time as he falleth downe deade this done hys parents with great ioye and gladnesse burne the dead body thinking that he is happy In this countrey euerye man hath as many wiues as he is able to maintain whē the husbande dyeth according vnto their custome his bodie is burnt and ●is wiues of their owne frée willes burne themselues with him and shée that leapeth firste into the fire the beholders take hir to be the best They are all Idolaturs and for the more part of them worship the Oxe saying he is a Sainct for that he laboureth and tilleth the grounde where the corne growth and so by no manner of meanes they will eate anye kinde of Oxe fleshe nor yet for all the golde in the world will they kill an Oxe and when any Oxe dyeth with his tallow they do rubbe al the insides of their houses These people descende of those that killed Saint Thomas the Apostle and none of them can enter into Sainct Thomas Churche whiche he edified in that countrey besides this if one will presume to enter into the Temple he falleth streight deade It hath bene proued oftentimes that some of them would enter perforce into the Church and it hath not bin possible for them doe it The king and those of this prouince eate alwayes vpon the ground and if it be demaunded of them by question why they doe so they doe aunsweare for that they doe come of the earth and to the earth they muste and they cannot doe so much honour vnto the Earth as is worthy In thys prouince there groweth nothing else but Rice these people go naked vnto the warres hauing no other weapon but speare and shield and they kill no wilde beastes at all for their eating but they cause some other that is not of their lawe to kill them All the men and women do wash themselues twice aday morning and euening for otherwise they dare neyther eate nor drinke and he that should not kepe this vse among them shoulde be reputed to bée and Hereticke and they do washe themselues in thys manner as we haue rehearsed they goe all naked and so they go vnto the riuer and ●ake of the water and powre it vpon their heads and then one doth helpe to washe another They are good men of warre and verye fewe of them drinke wine and those that doe drinke it are not taken to be as a witnesse nor yet those that go vnto the Sea saying that the Marriners are dronkards They are desperate men and estéeme lecherie to be no sinne This countrey is intollerable hote and the boyes go altogither naked It neuer rayneth in that Countrey sauing in Iune Iuly and August In this Region there be many Philosophers and many that vse Negromancie and verye manie of them that tell fortunes There be Hawkes as blacke as Rauens bigger than ours and good to kill the game Also there be Owles as bigge as Hennes that flye in the ayre all night Many of those men doe offer their children vnto those Idols that they haue most respect vnto and when they worship and feast those Idols they do cause to come before them all the yong men and maydes whiche are offered vnto them and they doe sing and daunce before the Idols and this done they do cause their meate to be broughte thither and they doe eate the flesh saying that the smell of the flesh filleth the Idols Of the Realme named Musuly vvhere there be found Adamants and many Serpents and of the manners of those in that Countrey CHAP. 117. MVsuly is a Region that standeth beyonde Moabar trauelling towards Septentrion which is the North .1000 miles The people of this Realme worship Idols And in the Mountaynes of this Countrey there be found fine Adamants And after they haue had muche rayne the men goe to séeke them in the streames that runne from the Mountaynes and so they do find the Adamants whiche are brought from the Mountaynes in Sommer when the dayes are

cattel and by reason the way is sandie their tracte is soone filled by reason whereof the théeues knowe not howe to follow in that Countrey Of a great deserte and of the Citie called Iob. CHAP. 36. DEparting from Ciarchan you shal trauayle fiue dayes iourney in sande and in the waye fresh and swéete waters and some saltish Being paste these fiue dayes iorney you shal finde a great desert and at the beginning of it a gret Citie called Iob betwéene the Northeast and the Easte They be vnder the obedience of the great Cane be Mahomets And they that wil passe this desert had néede to be in thys Citie a wéeke for to prouide them victuals and other necessaries for them and theyr horses for a moneth for in thys desert you shall finde nothing to eate or drinke and there be many sandie hils and greate After you be entred into it one dayes iourney you shall finde good water but after that neyther good nor badde nor beastes nor foules nor any thing to eate and trauelling that waye by nighte you shall heare in the ayre the sound of Tabers and other instruments to putte the trauellers in feare and to make them lose their way and to depart from their company and loose themselues and by that meanes many do● die being deceiued so by euill spirites that make these soundes and also do call diuerse of the trauellers by their names and make them to leaue their companye so that you shall passe this desert with great daunger Of the prouince of Tanguith and of the Citie Sangechian and of many straunge things there CHAP. 37. AFter you be passe the sayde thirtie dayes iourney by the deserte you shall come to a Citie called Sangechian subiect to the greate Cane And this prouince is called Tanguith in the whiche al be Idolaters sauing some be Christians Nestorians and some Mahomets The Idolaters speake the Persian tong and doe liue by the fruites of that Countrey There be among them manye Monasteries of the Idolaters wher with great deuotion they bring their children and with euerie of them a shéepe and do present to their Idols and euerie yeare they come with theyr children and make great reuerence to their Idols bryng with them their shéepe and kill them and séeth them and present them there before their Idols saying to them they must eate their meate the which they can not doe for they haue neyther mouth nor sense and séeing their Idols do● not eate it they carrie it home to their houses with greate reuerence and call theyr kyndered togyther and do eate of it as meate sacrificed to their Gods and put the bones in a basket When anye man or woman dieth they burne the body and this they accustome to doe with al the Idolators And in the way that the deade bodies shall passe to be burnte stande all their friendes and kinsfolkes to accompany the body to the sepulchre all clothed in cloth of golde and silke and after the burnte bodye is put into the grounde they cause to be brought thither meate drinke and there they do eate and drinke with greate myrth saying These bodies shall be receiued in the other worlde with like honour When they burne the bodies they do also burne with them diuers papers paynted of men women and beastes say●ng that as many pictures of men women and beastes as they do burne with them so many seruaunts they shall haue in the other world to doe them seruice and when they cary them to bury there goeth before them diuers kinds of instruments playing And whē one of these Idolators dieth his friendes incontinentlye declare to the Astrologers the day and the houre hée was borne in and wil not bury him before the day houre the Astrologers doe commaunde by that meanes some they bury straightways and somtimes they tarry ten twenty and thirtie dayes and sometime sixe moneths according as the Astrologers doe commaunde and in the meane time they do sire the body with spices and put it in a coffin and nayle it faste and lay a cloth ouer it and euerye day they set their table ouer the Coffin and there do eate and drinke and pray the dead body to eate with them And when the day appointed is come for to bury him the Astrologers do say that if he hath layne there one month it is not good to take him oute of that place by the iudgement of the Constellations and for that cause muste first remoue him to some other side of the house from thence carry him to bury Of the prouince Chamul and of the euill customes there CHAP. 38. CHamul is a prouince in the whiche be manye Citties and Townes whereof the chiefest is called Chamul and this prouince is towards the winde called Maistral which is Northeast and hath two Deserts on the one side the Deserte is of thrée dayes iorney and on the other side as muche The people of this Countrey worship Idols and doe speake the Persian tongue They liue by their labor in the Countrey and haue plentie of al things néedefull They be people giuen much to their owne pleasure as playing on instrumentes dauncing and singing And if any straunger doe goe to sée their pastime they receiue him and make very much of him with feasting and cheare and the goodman commaundeth his wife to make hym the beste cheare she can and to obey him in al things he will commaunde or desire and so the goodman goeth to his laboure into the fieldes and leaueth the straunger with hys wife willing hir to obey hym as to his owne person and this custome the menne and the women vse there be not ashamed therof The women be very faire there In the time of the greate Cane that is passe for the greate dishonestie hée heard of the people of that countrie and the greate hurte they susteined in their houses commaunded them that they shoulde receiue no straungers into their houses wherewithall the people were sore offended and thinking themselues not well vsed sent Embassadors to the greate Cane requesting him that he woulde not restraine them from their auntient liberties and customes that their anticessors hadde euer vsed and they for their partes woulde continue the same otherwise they shoulde be vnthankefull to their Idolls After the greate Cane hadde hearde their Embassage aunswered them séeyng they had pleasure in suche shamefull vsages and woulde not leaue it he also was contented with it Of the prouince Hingnitala and of the Salamandra that is founde there CHAP. 39. HIngnitala is a prouince set betwéen the North and the Easte and is a long prouince of sixetéene dayes iourney and is subiect to the great Cane and there is manye Cities and Townes There is also in that prouince thrée linages of people to saye Idolators that be Christians Nestorians and Iacobites and the other Mahomets At the ende of this prouince towardes the North is a greate hill on the whiche there

death of this Chenchis was made Lord of the Tartars one called Cane and this was the firste that was called Emperoure and Greate Cane And after hym raigned Bathe Cane and the fourth was called Chenchis Cane the fifth was Cublay Cane which raigneth nowe This Cublay Cane is the greatest and of most power of anye of al his predessors for among the Christians and Heathen there is not a greater Prince than he is nor of so great a power and that shall you cléerely perceyue hereafter by that which followeth All the Canes successors of the first Chenchis where bu●yed in a mountaine called Alchay and there dwelled the greate Cane And when the greate Cane dyeth they cary hym to be buryed there Those that do cary him or go with him kill as manye as they méete withall in the waye or stréete and when they kill them they saye Go and serue our Lorde in the other worlde they beléeue certainely that they go and doe him seruice And likewise by this reason when the greate Cane dieth they kill all his Camels Horses and Moyles beléeuing that they sēd them to serue their Lord in the other worlde When Monguy Cane Lorde of the Tartars dyed there was slaine .300000 men that they encountred in the way by those that wente wyth hym to hys buriall to the saide mountaine The habitation of the Tartars in the Winter is in the plaine fieldes where it is warme and good grasse and pasture for their Cattell and in the Sommer in the mountaines and wooddes where it is freshe and pleasaunt aire and they make rounde houses of tymber and couer them with feltes and these houses they carry with them at all times when they do remoue and alwayes they sette their doore in the Sommer time towards the South and in the Winter towardes the North. These Tartars haue theyr cartes of Wagons couered with blacke feltes that neuer any water can passe through and in these Cartes or Wagons go their wiues children and family and their Cammels do drawe these Wagons The Tartars wiues doe buy and sell al manner of things belonging to householde or any thing néedefull their husbands take no care for it but onely in hawking hunting and going on warrefare They do eate all manner of fleshe and drinke milke of all kinde of beastes and mares The Tartars maye take as manye wiues as they will and maye marry with anye of their kinred excepting no degrée but their firste wife is the chiefest and is moste made of the women doe gyue their dowries to their husbandes There is none of them will haue conuersation with an other mannes wife And when the father dyeth his eldest sonne doeth marry wyth his mother in lawe and when the sonne dyeth his brother marryeth with hys sister in lawe and for the time do kéep great solemnitie and feastes at the wedding Of the custome orders faith and honoring the great Cane and howe he goeth to the warres CHAP. 43. THe Greate Cane Emperour of the Tartars doth worshippe for his God and Idoll called Nochygay and they saye and beléeue that he is the eternall God that taketh care to preserue hym hys wiues children familie cattell and corne and hathe him in great reuerence and euery one hath the figure of that Idoll in his house And this Idoll is made of feltes or of other cloth and of the same felte or cloth they doe make wiues and children for their Idols and the women be sette on the lefte side of the Idols and the children before them When they thinke it dinner tyme then they doe annoynte the mouthes and lippes of theyr Idols and wiues and children with the fatte of the sodden flesh and do poure out the broath vpon the floore saying that theyr Idols their wiues and children doe fill themselues with it and they do eate the sodden flesh and their drinke is the milke of Mares trimmed with spices that it is like white wine and it is very good and is called with them Cheminis The Lordes and men of power and riches goe apparelled in cloth of golde and cloth of silke furred with riche furres Their harnesse is the Hydes of Buffe or other thicke and strong Skynnes The Tartares be valiant men of armes and strong to abyde any trauell or laboure and can well suffer hunger and thirst for in the warres they be many times one moneth and eate nothing but of wylde beastes they doe kill in the field and drinke Mares Milke When they be in the field day and night they be on Horsebacke and the bridle in their hands they giue the Horses meate When their King setteth forward with his host before and on euery side of him they do set foure battels of the best and most valiant men for bycause their King shoulde not bée put in feare And when he goeth a warrefare a farre off he caryeth nothing with hym but hys armoure and a thing to couer him when it doth rayne and two flaggons with Milke for to drinke and a Potte to séeth his meate in when néede is In a tyme of néede hée will ride tenne days iourney without eating any sodden meate For his drinke they will carrie Milke made like dry paste and when hée is disposed to drinke he will take a little of that paste and dissolue it in fayre water and so drinke it and when thys shall fayle hym and that he can gette no other drinke hée letteth hys Horse bloud and drinketh of it When the Tartares wyll skyrmishe wyth theyr en●mies they hyde their Sallets secretely and as they doe beginne to skyrmishe streightway they shewe as though they woulde runne away and that they were ouercome of theyr enimies and thus fléeing putte on theyr Sallets and streyght way they returne valiantly vpon their enimies and by this meanes commonly they doe breake the a ray of theyr enimies The Tartares haue thys custome that if one of theyr sonnes dye being yong and also of another man his daughter after they be dead they marrie them saying they shall be maried in the other worlde And of thys Matrimonie they doe make a publike writing and this writing they burne saying to the dead that as the smoke thereof ascendeth on high so doe they sende them that writing declaring theyr mariage And at suche mariages they make great feasting and solemnitie and do séeth muche victuals and poure out the broath vppon the floore saying that those which be dead in this world and maried in the other do eate of the victuals prepared for the wedding And besides all this they cause to be painted the figure of the sonne and daughter vppon the backside of the foresayde writing and withall the pictures of manye Camels and other diuers beasts and apparell and money and many other things saying that as that writing dothe burne all those things therein goe straight way to their chyldren after the smoke as aforesayde and the fathers and mothers of these

long Also there be strong Serpents and great very venemous séeming that they were serte there to kéepe the Adamantes that they might not be taken away and in no parte of the world there is found fine Adamants but there Th●re be in this Countrey the biggest Shéepe in the worlde And in the Prouince of Moabar aforenamed lyeth the body of the Apostle Sainct Thomas buryed in a small Citie whither there goeth but few Merchants for that it standeth farre from the Sea. There dwell manye Christians and Moores hauing great reuerence vnto the body of S●inct Thomas for they doe beléeue and say that he was a Moore and a great Prophet and they do call him Thomas Dauana which is to say a holy man The Christians that go on Pilgrimage to visit the body of Saincte Thomas take of that earth where he was martired and when any falleth sicke they doe giue him of it to drinke with wine and water In the yeare of our Lorde .1297 it chanced there to be a miracle in this wise A Knight gathered so much Rice that he had no place to put it in but put it into a house of Sainct Thomas and the Christian men desired him not to pester the holy Apostles house with his Rice where the Pilgrims did lodge yet the Knighte would not heare them and the same night the spirite of Sainct Thomas appeared with a Gallowes of iron in his hande putting it aboute the Knightes necke and sayde If thou cause not thy Rice to be taken out of the house of Sainct Thomas I will hang thée This miracle the Knight told with his owne mouth vnto all the people of that Countrey and forthwith the Christians rendred hartie thankes to the holy Apostle who dothe many miracles on the Christians that committe themselues deuoutely vnto him All the people of this Countrey be blacke not bycause they be so borne but for that they woulde be blacke they annoynt themselues with a kind of oyle called oyle of Ai●niolly for the blackest are estéemed most fayre Also the people of this Countrey cause their Idols to be paynted blacke and the Diuels to be painted white saying that God and his Sainctes are blacke and the Diuels white When they of this Countrey go on warfare they weare hattes vpon their heads made of the hides of wild Oxen and vpon their shieldes And to the féete of their Horses they fasten the heares of an Oxe saying that Oxen heares be holy and haue thys vertue that whosoeuer carieth of them aboute him can receyue no hurt nor danger Of the Prouince Lahe and of the vertue that is in the people CHAP. 118. GOing from that Towne of Sainct Thomas towardes the Occidente you come vnto a Prouince named Lahe and there dwell the men named Bragmanos which are the truest men in the world They will not lye for all the worlde nor yet consent vnto any falsehoode for all the world They are very chast people being contented only with one woman or wife They neuer drinke wine and by no manner of meanes they will take another mans goodes nor will eate fleshe nor kill any kinde of beast for all the world They do honour the Idols and haue much vnderstanding in the arte of Fortunes Before they doe conclude anye greate bargayne and before they doe anye thing of importance firste they doe consider theyr shadowe agaynste the Sunne whereby they iudge the thyng that they muste doe by certayne rules which they haue deputed for it They doe eate and drinke temperately They are neuer let bloud therefore they be very wise In this Countrey there be many religious men which are named Cingnos and liue a hundred and fiftie yeares for their greate abstinence and good liuing In this Countrey there be also certayne religious men Idolaters who goe altogither naked couering no part of their body saying that of themselues they be pure and cleane from all sinne These doe worship the Oxe These religious men weare eache of them vppon his forhead an Oxe made in mettall They do oynt all their bodie with an oyntment which they make with great reuerence of the marou of an Oxe They do neyther eate in dishes nor vppon trenchers but vppon the leaues of the Apple trée of Paradise and other drye leaues and not gréene by no manner of meanes for they saye that the gréene leafe hath life and soule They do sléepe naked vppon the ground Of the Kingdome named Orbay and of many things and strange beastes found there and of their beastly liuing CHAP. 119. ORbay is a Kingdome that standeth towards the Orient or the East beyond Marbar fiue miles In this Kingdome there be Christians Iewes and Moores The King of Orbay payeth no tribute Héere groweth more Pepper than in any place of the world There is a thyng in couloure redde which they do call Indyaco there is plētie and it is good to dye withall and is made of hearbes A man can scarce kéepe himselfe in health for the greate heate that is there whiche is so vehemente that if you should put an Egge in the water of the riuer at such time as the Sunne hathe his strength it woulde séeth it as though it were put in séething or scalding water There is greate trade of merchandise in this Countrey by reason of the greate gaynes There is very muche Pepper and very good cheape In thys Countrey there be manye and strange Beastes to beholde There groweth no other kynde of grayne for sustenance but Rice There bée many Phisitions and Astrologers The men and women are blacke and go naked sauing that they do couer theyr priuities Héere they do marrie the Cousen with the cousen and the sonne in lawe with the mother in lawe and throughout all India they do kéepe this manner of wedding Of the Prouince named Comate and of the people and strange Beastes that be there CHAP. 120. COmate is a Countrey of India from whence you can not sée the North Starre nor yet it can not be séene from the Ilande named Iaua to this place But going from hence sayling vppon the Sea thirtie miles you shall discouer the North Starre streight In this Countrey there are verye strange people and verye strange Beastes but specially Apes that are like men Of the Kingdome named Hely and of the strange beastes found there CHAP. 121. GOing from Comate agaynste the Occident or the Weast thirtie miles you shall playnely sée the North Starre and come to the Region of Hely where they are all Idolaters The King of this place is very rich of treasure but he is weake of people Thys Countrey is so strong that no man can enter into it perforce And when any Shippe commeth thither by force of weather or otherwise those of the Countrey robbe hym saying that those Shyps come not thither but to robbe them and therefore they do earnestly beléeue that it is no sinne to robbe them Héere be Lyons and other wylde beastes a great number Of