AD. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1563-81. 



image of a man of gold very great, & on his head a 



crowne of gold beset with most rare Rubies and Safires, 



and round about him are 4. litle children of gold. In 



the second house there is the stature of a man of silver, 



that is set as it were sitting on heapes of money : whose 



stature in height, as hee sitteth, is so high, that his 



highnesse exceedes the height of any one roofe of an 



house ; I measured his feete, and found that they were 



as long as all my body was in height, with a crowne on 



his head like to the first. And in the thirde house, there 



is a stature of brasse of the same bignesse, with a like 



crowne on his head. In the 4. and last house there is 



a stature of a man as big as the other, which is made of 



Gansa, which is the metall they make their money of, 



& this metall is made of copper & leade mingled 



together. This stature also hath a crowne on his head 



like the first : this treasure being of such a value as it is, 



standeth in an open place that every man at his pleasure 



may go & see it : for the keepers therof never forbid 



any man the sight thereof. I say as I have said before, 



that this king every yere in his feastes triumpheth : & 



because it is worthy of the noting, I thinke it meet 



The great ^^ write therof, which is as foloweth. The king; rideth 

 pompe of the . ' n -i 1 1 1 • , • 



k'ln^. ^^ ^ triumphant cart or wagon all gilded, which is 



drawen by 16. goodly horses : and this cart is very high 



with a goodly canopy over it, behind the cart goe 20. of 



his Lordes & nobles, with every one a rope in his hand 



made fast to the cart for to hold it upright that it fal 



not. The king sitteth in the middle of the cart ; & 



upon the same cart about the king stande 4. of his nobles 



most favored of him, and before this cart wherein the 



king is, goeth all his army as aforesaid, and in the middle 



of his army goeth all his nobilitie, round about the cart, 



there are in his dominions, a marveilous thing it is to 



see so many people, such riches & such good order in 



a people so barbarous as they be. This king of Pegu 



hath one principal wife which is kept in a Seralio, he 



hath 300 concubines, of whom it is reported that he hath 



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