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and some goc without tocks, and cary (as it were) a 

 hive on their heades, which doeth not passe the lower 

 part of his eare, when it is lifted up : they goe all bare 

 footed, but the Noble men never goe on foote, but are 

 caried by men in a seate with great reputation, with a 

 hat made of the leaves of a tree to keepe him from the 

 raine and Sunne, or otherwise they ride on horsebacke 

 with their feete bare in the stirops. All sorts of women ^^^ ^''^^^ '^f 

 whatsoever they be, weare a smocke downe to the girdle, J^ ''^'^^J^^ 

 and from the girdle downewards to the foote they weare pem. 

 a cloth of three brases, open before ; so straite that 

 they cannot goe, but they must shewe their secret as 

 it were aloft, and in their going they faine to hide it 

 with their hand, but they cannot by reason of the 

 straitnes of their cloth. They say that this use was in- 

 vented by a Oueene to be an occasion that the sight 

 thereof might remove from men the vices against nature, 

 which they are greatly given unto : which sight should 

 cause them to regard women the more. Also the 

 women goe bare footed, their armes laden with hoopes 

 of golde and Jewels : And their fingers full of precious 

 rings, with their haire rolled up about their heads. 

 Many of them weare a cloth about their shoulders in 

 stead of a cloake. 



Now to finish that which I have begunne to write, I 

 say, that those parts of the Indies are very good, be- 

 cause that a man that hath litle, shall make a great 

 deale thereof; alwayes they must governe themselves 

 that they be taken for honest men. For why } to such 

 there shal never want helpe to doe wel, but he that 

 is vicious, let him tary at home and not go thither, 

 because he shall alwayes be a begger, and die a poore 



man. 



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