water, they take limons which they pil, anointing themselues throughly with the iuice therof, and so they may diue naked vnder the water, the hors-leeches not being able to hurt them.  From this lake the water runneth euen vnto the sea, and at a low ebbe the inhabitants dig rubies, diamonds, pearls, and other pretious stones out of the shore:  wherupon it is thought, that the king of this island hath greater abundance of pretious stones, then any other monarch in the whole earth besides.  In the said country there be al kinds of beasts and foules:  and the people told me, that those beasts would not inuade nor hurt any stranger, but only the natural inhabitants.  I saw in this island fouls as big as our countrey geese, hauing two heads, and other miraculous things, which I will not here write off.  Traueling on further toward the south, I arriued at a certain island called Bodin, [Marginal note:  Or, Dadin.] which signifieth in our language vnclean.  In this island there do inhabit most wicked persons, who deuour and eat raw flesh committing al kinds of vncleannes and abominations in such sort, as it is incredible.  For the father eateth his son, and the son his father, the husbande his owne wife, and the wife her husband:  and that after this maner.  If any mans father be sick, the son straight goes vnto the soothsaying or prognosticating priest, requesting him to demand of his god, whether his father shall recouer of that infirmity of no:  Then both of them go vnto an idol of gold or of siluer, making their praiers vnto it in maner folowing:  Lord, thou art our God, and thee we do adore, beseeching thee to resolue vs, whether such a man must die, or recouer of such an infirmity or no:  Then the diuel answereth out of the foresaid idol:  if he saith (he shal liue) then returneth his son and ministreth things necessary vnto him, til he hath attained vnto his former health:  but if he saith (he shal die) then goes the priest vnto him, and putting a cloth into his mouth doth strangle him therewith:  which being done, he cuts his dead body into morsels, and al his friends and kinsfolks are inuited vnto the eating thereof, with musique and all kinde of mirth:  howbeit his bones are solemnely buried.  And when I found fault with that custome demanding a reason thereof, one of them gaue me this answer:  this we doe, least the wormes should eat his flesh, for then his soule should suffer great torments, neither could I by any meanes remooue them from that errour.  Many other nouelties and strange things there bee in this countrey, which no man would credite, vnles he saw them with his owne eyes.  Howbeit, I (before almighty God) do here make relation of nothing but of that only, whereof I am as sure, as a man may be sure.  Concerning the foresaid islands I inquired of diuers wel-experienced persons, who al of them, as it were with one consent, answered me saying, That this India contained 4400. islands vnder it, or within it:  in which islands there are sixtie and foure crowned kings:  and they say moreouer, that the greater part of those islands are wel inhabited.  And here I conclude concerning that part of India.