3 1 8 The Voyages and Travells of 

 havinge apparrelled them in theire befte 

 Clothes, all haunged aboute with Flowers, 

 and accompanied with the Brammans^ or 

 Priefts, and manye others, accordinge to the 

 State of the Parents of the Children, and foe 

 leade them upp and downe the Cittye or 



Towne where they dwell, and 

 or church. then to the Paged, and thence, 



after the Ceremonies there done, 

 they come home and feafte, and in the fame 

 manner continue feaftinge certayne Dayes, 

 more or leffe, accordinge to the Welthe of 

 the Parents : And when the Children come 

 to bee ten Yeares ould, they lye together. 

 The Reafon whye they marrye them foe 

 younge, they fay, is in regard they would 

 not leave their Children wivelefs : If yt 

 fhould pleafe God to take the Parents awaye 

 of either of the Children, yet (fay they) they 

 have other Parents to ayde them, till they 

 come to Yeares of Difcretion. Likewife the 

 Reafon whye the Rasbcoches Wives burne 



themfelves with theire Huf- 

 rhe Reafon whye the bands dead Bodies, is : That 



Women burne them . u , . 



feives with their y l " at n ben an ould Cuftome 

 tf mdi dmd B °~ 2nd lon g e fi nce ordeyned by a 

 certayne Kinge of theires, be- 



caufe 



