AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1563-81. 



These tides^ to Sterne, the second is not so furious as the first, and 



make their just ^^ thirde rayseth the Anker, and then for the space of 



^^^ sixe houres while the water encreaseth, they rowe with 



such swiftnesse that you would thinke they did fly : in 



these tydes there must be lost no jot of time, for if 



you arrive not at the stagions before the tyde be spent, 



you must turne backe from whence you came. For 



there is no staying at any place, but at these stagions, 



and there is more daunger at one of these places then 



at another, as they be higher and lower one then another. 



When as you returne from Pegu to Martavan, they goe 



but halfe the tide at a time, because they will lay their 



barkes up aloft on the bankes, for the reason aforesayd. 



I could never gather any reason of the noyse that this 



water maketh in the increase of the tide, and in de- 



This Macareo minishing of the water. There is another Macareo in 



is a tide or a Cambaya, but that is nothing in comparison of this. 



cut rant. -g^ ^j^^ helpe of God we came safe to Pegu, which are 



two cities, the olde and the newe, in the olde citie are 



the Marchant strangers, and marchantes of the Countrey, 



for there are the greatest doings and the greatest trade. 



This citie is not very great, but it hath very great 



Houses made suburbes. Their houses be made with canes, and covered 



of canes 15 ^^{\}^ leaves, or with strawe, but the marchants have all 



leaves of trees. °^^ house or Magason, which house they call Godon 



Godon is a which is made of brickes, and there they put all their 



place or house goods of any valure, to save them from the often mis- 



for marchants chances that there happen to houses made of such stuffe. 



to lay their j^^ ^^ ^^^ ^j^-^ ^^ ^^ pallace of the kino:, and his abiding 



snoods in, . . '-' 



place with all his barons and nobles, and other gentlemen ; 



and in the time that I was there, they finished the build- 



The forme of jj^g Qf ^^ j-^g-y^ z\t\^ \ it is a great citie, very plaine and 



\he new dfie ^^^' ^^^^ foure square, walled round about and with 



of Pegu. ditches that compasse the wals about with water, in which 



diches are many crocodils, it hath no drawe bridges, yet 



it hath twentie gates, five for every square on the walles, 



there are many places made for centinels to watch, made 



of wood and covered or guilt with gold, the streetes 



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