CAESAR FREDERICK ad. 



1563-81. 

 supplication unto him, and I was licenced to depart 

 when I would. 



From Martavan I departed to goe to the chiefest 

 Citie in the kingdome of Pegu, which is also called after 

 the name of the kingdome, which voyage is made by sea 

 in three or foure daies ; they may goe also by lande, 

 but it is better for him that hath marchandize to goe 

 by sea and lesser charge. And in this voyage you shall 

 have a Macareo, which is one of the most marveilous 

 things in the world that nature hath wrought, and I 

 never saw any thing so hard to be beleeved as this, 

 to wit, the great increasing & diminishing of the water ^ thing most 

 there at one push or instant, and the horrible earthquake ^^^^'^^^^^^■> 

 and great noyse that the said Macareo maketh where commins-of a 

 it commeth. We departed from Martavan in barkes, tide the earth 

 which are like to our Pylot boates, with the increase should quake. 

 of the water, and they goe as swift as an arrowe out 

 of a bow, so long as the tide runneth with them, and 

 when the water is at the highest, then they drawe them- 

 selves out of the Chanell towardes some banke, and 

 there they come to anker, and when the water is 

 diminished, then they rest on dry land : and when the [H. i. 234.] 

 barkes rest dry, they are as high from the bottome of the 

 Chanell, as any house top is high from the ground. 

 They let their barkes lie so high for this respect, that 

 if there should any shippe rest or ride in the Chanell, 

 with such force commeth in the water, that it would J^^-^ ^^f'^ ^^ 

 overthrowe shippe or barke : yet for all this, that the [^ our river of 

 barkes be so farre out of the Channell, and though Seveme. 

 the water hath lost her greatest strength and furie before 

 it come so high, yet they make fast their prowe to the 

 streme, and oftentimes it maketh them very fearefull, 

 and if the anker did not holde her prow up by strength, 

 shee would be overthrowen and lost with men and goods. 

 When the water beginneth to increase, it maketh such 

 a noyse and so great that you would thinke it an earth- 

 quake, and presently at the first it maketh three waves. 

 So that the first washeth over the barke, from stemme 



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