68 j^ftDemonei’jKDapBi^anKnieafttreof^nata, 
uer comefojtb till thep are dead, and tbcp are 
onlp ^ojtmgals, fo? no other ficfc perfon map 
lodge therm, 3! mean fuel) as are calico totjtte 
men,fo? the other Blnotans banc an l^ofpi* 
tall bp themfelues. Bln this l^ofpitaUtbep are 
tjerte boell looked tjnto bp 3lefuites,and Gen¬ 
tlemen tbobcrccfeuerp month one of the belt 
is ebofen ano appointed, bubo perfonallp is 
there bp them, and giuetb thefickc perfons 
Sjohatfocnertheptnilldcfire, and fometimes 
Cpend moje bp foure o? fiue hundred 2Duckats 
of their otpne purfes, then the IKingsallobo* 
ancereachethhnto, tnhich then doe moje of 
pjide and Paine glojie, then fo? companion, 
onelptohaue the p?aife and commendation 
efliberalitte. 3t is no lljame there to lie in 
the ^ofpitall, foj manp men go thether boil- 
linglp, although thep haue boberebuttb to 
k«pe themfelues in their houres, and haue 
both tnife and children. SThcfe i^ofpitalsin 
India are berp ncceffarie foj the jpojtingals, 
otherfoife thep iholo confume abuap like rnife* 
rable men, but bp $ means thep are relteued, 
tohatfoeuer thep haue, epthcr fickneffe, 
luounds, fecrete difeafes, pockcs, piles, oj a* 
np fuch like, there thep are healed,and tome* 
times bifitedbp the tatcerop himfelfe, boben 
he thinkethbponthem,andthathis common 
dities come in* i£e that boil not lie thcrc,ano 
hath anp tnoundcs o? pjtuie difeafes, map 
come thether tboice euerp dap and be djeff, $ 
goc his bxmpagaine boithout anp queffion oj 
dcniall. Mhen thep die therein, thep arebp 
tboo flaues carried into the Church patde, 
boithout cpther finging o? ringing, onelp one 
man folloboeth after them, $ tb?obnetbfome 
holp boater hppon thegraue: butiftheficke 
man cbanccth to leaue anp goods behind him, 
and fpeaketh bmto the Pftcftcs to bjing him 
to his graue, and to fap S©aifes fo? his foule, 
then thep rnnne thither bp beapes, and burie 
him like a man of countenance eptber in the 
Church o? cbauncell, according to his brill, 
and then hath hec finging and ringing t* 
tiougb. 
3 ! 5 ut returning to our matter of fickncfle, 
pockcs and piles, boith other fccret difeafes, 
thep arc in thofe countries bate common $ 
not hidden o? concealed, fo? thep thinke it no 
fljame, mo?e then to haue anp otber difeafe. 
SEhep beale them boith the rate Chinajthcre 
are fomc that haue had them at the leaft tb?ee 
o? foure times, and are not anp thing at all 
Shunned o? otfltked fo? the fame,but dare both 
boalf and b?aggc thereof. Bit is not anu thing 
pcrillousfo? the bodie, infomuch that thep 
had rather haue them, and feare them lefle 
then anp of the fo?efaio difeafes. SChe plague 
hath ncuer ban in India,neitber isit knobott 
The x .Booke* 
$ fuch like, buherebp fome lofe their healthes, 
ahd fome their hues, is their dapip ejerrife, 
and berp common boith thcmXhe Cone gra* 
uel,and rupture raigneth much among them, 
fpeciallpamongmarriedmen, bp reafon of 
the great quantitie of boater that thep djinke 
being giuen to all pleafure and riotoufiies,en-> 
ioping all tuhat their hearts defire, fitting al- 
boapes boith their bellies open in their fljirtes 
tnagallerie, recreating themfelues boith the 
boind bohich cooletb them, fometimeshauing 
a flaue to fcratch and pare their naples and 
fate, another the head, the third bolosa if an 
to o?iue aboap the flas.Cheir is.the common 
bfe fo? tboo houres after name, bohere like* 
boife thep take an afterncones fleepe, and rnt 
as thep haue tbirff, thep b?ing him >a oiffi of 
conferues, o? other comfets, that the boater 
fhoulde not boo?ket® much in his bodie, but 
taff e the better, Mith fuch and the like erer- 
cifes thep do pafie the dap til night comes on,' 
fo that commonlp thep haue all fboollen beb> 
lies like Bacchus, boherebp the foldters and 
other Bhroians fall them Barngois, that is, 
bellies, o? great bellies. 
SEhedap both Summer and ® 2 f inter is 
there all of a length,not much difference,one* 
Ip in the chatmge thep haue about an houres 
difference. SChefunnewfethatfijre, and let* 
tetbatfire. Mhen it is name, commonlp 
thep haue the S»unne in the middle of the ele* 
ment tuff ouer their heades, and it giueth no 
fhadoboe, although it ffretcheth fomebohat 
out as the £>nnne taketh his courfe. Bln Goa 
pou map fee both the ^oles of the b»o?lo, the 
$o?tb and &outb ff arres ff ande not farre a* 
bone the ^o?i? on. 0nd this Ojall fuffice fo? 
the times and feafons of the peare, fickneffes 
and other difeafes in India,as b?cuttie requi* 
retb* 
The 3 y, Chapter, 
Of the money, waighr, and meafure of 
Indstt, and (joa. 
fee principal! and com* 
moneff monep is cal* 
led Pardaus Xeraphi- 
ins, and is filuer, but 
bjcrpbjaffe, and is cop^ 
nedinGoa.Chep haue 
§>aintSebaftianontbe 
one fide, and tb?& o; foure arrobnes in a bun* 
die on the other fide, bohich is as much as 
tb?*e 2Ceffones, o? th?a hundred fteijs Por^ 
tingaii monep, and rtfetb and falleth little 
leffe 
