TO THE COURT OF AVA. 
293 
times on their shoulder ; and these two be girded 
to them with a broad girdle; and they have a 
skin of leather hanging on a string about their 
necks, whereupon they sit bareheaded and bare¬ 
footed—for none of them weareth shoes—with 
their right arms bare, and a great broad som- 
brera, or shadow, in their hands, to defend them 
in the summer from the sun, and in the winter 
from the rain. When the tallipoies, or priests, 
take their orders, first they go to school until 
they be twenty years old or more, and then 
they come before a tallipoie appointed for that 
purpose, whom they call a Rawli: he is of the 
chiefest and most learned, and he opposeth them? 
and afterwards examineth them many times, whe¬ 
ther they will leave their friends, and the company 
of all women, and take upon them the habit of a 
tallipoie. If any be content, then he rideth upon 
a horse about the streets, very richly apparelled’ 
with drums and pipes, to show that he leaveth the 
riches of the world to be a tallipoie. In a few 
days, he is carried upon a thing like a horse-litter, 
which they call a serion, upon ten or twelve men’ s 
shoulders, in the apparel of a tallipoie, with pipes 
and drums, and many tallipoies with him, and all 
his friends ; and so they go with him to his house, 
which standeth upon the town, and then they 
leave him. Every one of them hath his house, 
which is very little, set upon six or eight posts, 
