A.D. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1583-91. 



friends and neighbours, all men : and they give to the 



tallipoies or priests many mats and cloth : and then 



they returne to the house and there make a feast for 



two dayes : and then the wife with all the neighbours 



wives & her friends go to the place where he was burned, 



and there they sit a certaine time and cry and gather the 



pieces of bones which be left unburned and bury them, 



and then returne to their houses and make an end of 



all mourning. And the men and women which be neere 



of kin do shave their heads, which they do not use 



except it be for the death of a friend : for they much 



esteeme of their haire. 



Caplan is the Caplan is the place where they finde the rubies, saphires, 



place zvhere ^^^ spinelles : it standeth sixe dayes journey from Ava 



the rubies and • ^^ kingdome of Pegu. There are many great high 



other precious , .„ ^ r 1 • 1 i j- i xt 



stones are Allies out of which they digge them. None may go 



found. to the pits but onely those which digge them. 



In Pegu, and in all the countreys of Ava, Langeiannes, 

 Siam, and the Bramas, the men weare bunches or little 

 round balles in their privy members: some of them 

 weare two and some three. They cut the skin and so 

 put them in, one into one side and another into the 

 other side; which they do when they be 25 or 30 yeeres 

 olde, and at their pleasure they take one or more of 

 them out as they thinke good. When they be maried 

 the husband is for every child which his wife hath, to 

 put in one untill he come to three and then no more : 

 for they say the women doe desire them. They were 

 invented because they should not abuse the male sexe. 

 For in times past all those countries were so given to 

 that villany, that they were very scarse of people. It 

 was also ordained that the women should not have past 

 three cubits of cloth in their nether clothes, which they 

 binde about them ; which are so strait, that when they 

 go in the streets, they shew one side of the leg bare 

 Anthony Gal- above the knee. The bunches aforesayd be of divers 

 sorts : the least be as big as a litle walnut, and very 

 round ; the greatest are as big as a litle hennes ^gg^ : 



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vano writeth 

 of these hals. 



