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for this purpose with four or five knots, and their tassels 
hanging down, like gentlemen; and in their hands 
azagayes, and others carry hows and arrows ; it must be 
mentioned that the bows are of middle size, and the iron 
points of the arrows are very large and well wrought. 
They are men of war, and some of them are merchants ; 
their women go naked as long as they are girls, only 
covering their middles with cotton cloths, and when 
they are married and have children, they wear other 
cloths over their breasts. 
“ Leaving Sofala for the interior of the country, at 
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xv. days’ journey from it, there is a large town of 
Gentiles, which is called Zinbaoch ; and it has houses of 
wood and straw, in which town the King of Benama- 
tapa frequently dwells, and from there to the city of 
Benamatapa there are six days’ journey, and the road 
goes from Sofala, inland, towards the Cape of Good 
Hope. And in the said Benamatapa, which is a very 
large town, the king is used to make his longest resi¬ 
dence ; and it is thence that the merchants bring to 
Sofala the gold which they sell to the Moors without 
weighing it, for coloured stuffs and beads of Cambay, 
which are much used and valued amongst them; and 
the people of this city of Benamatapa say that this gold 
