A.D. 

 1583-91, 



The apparel 

 of the Tar- 

 taric mar- 

 chants. 



Coive tailcs in 

 great request. 



Bacola. 



Serrcporc. 



Sinnergan. 



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from under the sunne, which is from China, which have 

 no beards, and they say there it is something warme. 

 But those which come from the other side of the moun- 

 tains which is from the North, say there it is very cold. 

 These Northren merchants are apparelled with woollen 

 cloth and hats, white hosen close, and bootes which be 

 of Moscovia or Tartarie. They report that in their 

 countrey they have very good horses, but they be litle : 

 some men have foure, five, or sixe hundred horses and 

 kine : they live with milke and fleshe. They cut the 

 tailes of their kine, and sell them very deere, for they 

 bee in great request, and much esteemed in those partes. 

 The haire of them is a yard long, the rumpe is above 

 a spanne long : they use to hang them for braverie 

 upon the heades of their Elephants : they bee much 

 used in Pegu and China : they buie and sell by scores 

 upon the ground. The people be very swift on 

 foote. 



From Chatigan in Bengala, I came to Bacola ; the king 

 whereof is a Gentile, a man very well disposed and 

 delighteth much to shoot in a gun. His countrey is 

 very great and fruitful, and hath store of Rice, much 

 cotton cloth, and cloth of silke. The houses be very 

 faire and high builded, the streetes large, the people 

 naked, except a litle cloth about their waste. The women 

 weare great store of silver hoopes about their neckes 

 and armes, and their legs are ringed with silver and 

 copper, and rings made of elephants teeth. 



From Bacola I went to Serrepore which standeth upon 

 the river of Ganges, the king is called Chondery. 

 They be all hereabout rebels against their king Zelab- 

 dim Echebar : for here are so many rivers & Hands, 

 that they flee from one to another, whereby his horse- 

 men cannot prevaile against them. Great store of 

 cotton cloth is made here. 



Sinnergan is a towne sixe leagues from Serrepore, 

 where there is the best and finest cloth made of cotton 

 that is in all India. The chiefe king of all these 



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