CAESAR FREDERICK a.d. 



1563-81. 

 wayer of money, a day or two before he go about his 

 businesse, and give him in paiment for his labour two 

 Byzaes a moneth, and for this he is bound to make good 

 all your money, & to maintaine it for good, for that 

 hee receiveth it and seales the bags with his seale : and 

 when hee hath received any store, then hee causeth it 

 to bee brought into the Magason of the Marchant, that 

 is the owner of it. 



That money is very weightie, for fourtie Byza is a 

 strong Porters burden ; and also where the Marchant 

 hath any payment to be made for those goods which he 

 buyeth, the Common wayer of money that receiveth his 

 money must make the payment thereof. So that by this 

 meanes, the Marchant with the charges of two Byzes a [II. i. 239.] 

 moneth, receiveth and payeth out his money without 

 losse or trouble. The Marchandizes that goe out of TheMarchan- 

 Pegu are Gold, Silver, Rubies, Saphyres, Spinelles, great ^^^if^fpgS^ 

 store of Benjamin, long peper, Leade, Lacca, rice, wine, 

 some sugar, yet there might be great store of sugar made 

 in the Countrey, for that they have aboundance of Canes, 

 but they give them to Eliphants to eate, and the people 

 consume great store of them for food, and many more 

 doe they consume in vaine things, as these following. 

 In that kingdome they spend many of these Sugar canes 

 in making of houses and tents which they call Varely 

 for their idoles, which they call Pagodes, whereof there 

 are great aboundance, great and smal, and these houses 

 are made in forme of little hilles, like to Sugar loaves or 

 to Bells, and some of these houses are as high as a 

 reasonable steeple, at the foote they are very large, some 

 of them be in circuit a quarter of a mile. The saide 

 houses within are full of earth, and walled round about 

 with brickes and dirt in steade of lime, and without 

 forme, from the top to the foote they make a covering 

 for them with Sugar canes, and plaister it with lime all 

 over, for otherwise they would bee spoyled, by the great 

 aboundance of raine that falleth in those Countreys. 

 Also they consume about these Varely or idol houses 

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