a steeple, replenished with fragrant herbes and fine shady trees.  And while we stood there, he tooke a cymball or bell, and rang therewith, as they vse to ring to dinner or beuoir in cloisters, at the sound whereof many creatures of diuers kinds came downe from the mount, some like apes, some like cats, some like monkeys and some hauing faces like men.  And while I stood beholding of them, they gathered themselues together about him, to the number of 4200. of those creatures, putting themselues in good order, before whom he set a platter, and gaue them the said fragments to eate.  And when they had eaten he rang vpon his cymbal the second time, and they al returned vnto their former places.  Then, wondring greatly at the matter, I demanded what kind of creatures those might be?  They are (quoth he) the soules of noble men which we do here feed, for the loue of God who gouerneth the world:  and as a man was honorable or noble in this life, so his soule after death, entreth into the body of some excellent beast or other, but the soules of simple and rusticall people do possesse the bodies of more vile and brutish creatures.  Then I began to refute that foule error:  howbeit my speach did nothing at all preuaile with him:  for he could not be perswaded that any soule might remaine without a body. [Sidenote:  Chilenso.] From thence I departed vhto a certaine citie named Chilenso, the walls whereof conteined 40. miles in circuit.  In this city there are 360. bridges of stone, the fairest that euer I saw:  and it is wel inhabited, hauing a great nauie belonging thereunto, and abounding with all kinds of victuals and other commodities. [Sidenote:  Thalay.] And thence I went vnto a certaine riuer called Thalay, which where it is most narrow, is 7. miles broad:  [Sidenote:  Cakam.] and it runneth through the midst of the land of Pygmaei, whose chiefe city is called Cakam, and is one of the goodliest cities in the world.  These Pigmaeans are three of my spans high, and they make larger and better cloth of cotten and silke, then any other nation vnder the sunne. [Sidenote:  Ianzu.] And coasting along by the saide riuer, I came vnto a certaine citie named Ianzu, in which citie there is one receptacle for the Friers of our order, and there be also three Churches of the Nestorians.  This Ianzu is a noble and great citie, containing 48 Thuman of tributarie fiers, and in it are all kindes of victuals, and great plenty of such beastes, foules and fishes, as Christians doe vsually liue vpon.  The lord of the same citie hath in yeerely reuenues for salt onely, fiftie Thuman of balis, and one balis is worth a floren and a halfe of our coyne:  insomuch that one Thuman of balis amounteth vnto the value of fifteene thousand florens.  Howbeit the sayd lord fauoureth his people in one respect, for sometimes he forgiueth them freely two hundred Thuman, least there should be any scarcity or dearth among them.  There is a custome in this citie, that when any man is determined to banquet his friends, going about