clothes much 

 esteemed. 



DRAKE'S CIRCUMNAVIGATION a.d. 



1580. 

 Rajah Mang Bange, and Rajah Cabuccapollo, which live 

 as having one spirite, and one minde. 



Of these five we had foure a shipboord at once, and 

 two or three often. They are wonderfully delighted in ^^d ^ grecne 

 coloured clothes, as red and greene : their upper parts 

 of their bodies are naked, save their heads, where- 

 upon they weare a Turkish roll, as do the Maluccians : 

 from the middle downward they weare a pintado of 

 silke, trailing upon the ground, in colour as they best 

 like. 



The Maluccians hate that their women should bee ^-^^ manners 



seene of strang^ers : but these offer them of hig^h ^fj)^P^¥^ 



1^ , . 1 , ° of Java. 



courtesie, yea the kmgs themselves. 



The people are of goodly stature, and warlike, well 

 provided of swords and targets, with daggers, all being 

 of their owne worke, and most artificially done, both in 

 tempering their mettall, as also in the forme, whereof we 

 bought reasonable store. 



They have an house in every village for their common 

 assembly : every day they meete twise, men, women, and 

 children, bringing with them such victuals as they thinke 

 good, some fruites, some rice boiled, some hennes roasted, 

 some sagu, having a table made 3. foote from the ground, 

 whereon they set their meate, that every person sitting 

 at the table may eate, one rejoycing in the company of 

 another. 



They boile their rice in an earthen pot, made in forme ^ strange 

 of a sugar loafe, being ful of holes, as our pots which we ■{^^,/-^^^^^ 

 water our s^ardens withall, and it is open at the great ende, 

 wherein they put their rice drie, without any moisture. 

 In the meane time they have ready another great earthen 

 pot, set fast in a fornace, boiling full of water, whereinto 

 they put their pot with rice, by such measure, that they 

 swelling become soft at the first, and by their swelling 

 stopping the holes of the pot, admit no more water to 

 enter, but the more they are boiled, the harder and more 

 firme substance they become, so that in the end they are 

 a firme & good bread, of the which with oyle, butter, 



131 



boy ling 



rue. 



