ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



c. 1565. 



quiet, being out of the preasse of the people. These 

 rivers do meet without at one corner point of the City. 

 In either of them were so many barges great and small, 

 that we all thought them at the least to be above three 

 thousand : the greater number thereof was in the lesser 

 river, where we were. Amongst the rest here lay 

 Parai. certaine greater vessels, called in their language Parai, 



that serve for the Tutan, when he taketh his voyage 

 by other rivers that joyne with this, towards Pachin, 

 where the king maketh his abode. For, as many times 

 I have erst said, all this Countrey is full of rivers. 

 Desirous to see those Parai we got into some of them, 

 where we found some chambers set foorth with gilded 

 beds very richly, other furnished with tables and seats, 

 and all other things so neat and in perfection, that it 

 was wonderfull. 



Quiacim shire, as farre as I can perceive, lieth upon 

 the South. On that side we kept at our first entry 

 thereinto, travayling not farre from the high mountaines 

 we saw there. Asking what people dwelleth beyond 

 those mountaines, it was told me that they be theeves 

 & men of a strange language. And because that unto 

 sundry places neere this river the mountaines doe ap- 

 proch, whence the people issuing downe do many times 

 great harme, this order is taken at the entry into 

 Quiacim shire. To guard this river whereon continually 

 go to & fro Parai great & small fraught with salt, 

 Fish poudered fish poudred with peper, and other necessaries for that 

 withpeper. CO untrey, they do lay in divers places certaine Parai, and 

 great barges armed, wherin watch and ward is kept day 

 and night on both sides of the river, for the safety of 

 the passage, & securitie of such Parai as do remaine 

 there, though the travailers never go but many in com- 

 pany. In every rode there be at the least thirtie, in some 

 two hundred men, as the passage requireth. This guard 

 is kept usually untill you come to the City Onchio, 

 where continually the Tutan of this shire, and eke of 

 Cantan, maketh his abode. From that City upward, 



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