another, with little doores, euery house hath his defence, so that by that meanes it is of force sufficient to defend the Portugals against the people of that countrey.  The Portugals there haue no other possession but their gardens and houses that are within the citie:  the customes belong to the king of Bezeneger, which are very small and easie, for that it is a countrey of great riches and great trade:  there come euery yeere two or three great ships very rich, besides many other small ships:  one of the two great ships goeth for Pegu, and the other for Malacca, laden with fine Bumbast [Marginal Note:  A painted kind of cloth and died of diuers colours which those people delight much in, and esteeme them of great price.] cloth of euery sort, painted, which is a rare thing, because those kinde of clothes shew as they were gilded, with diuers colours, and the more they be washed, the liuelier the colours will shew.  Also there is other cloth of Bumbast which is wouen with diuers colours, and is of great value:  also they make in Sant Tome great store of red Yarne, which they die with a roote called Saia, and this colour will neuer waste, but the more it is washed, the more redder it will shew:  they lade this yarne the greatest part of it for Pegu, because that there they worke and weaue it to make cloth according to their owne fashion, and with lesser charges.  It is a maruelous thing to them which haue not seene the lading and vnlading of men and marchandize in S. Tome as they do:  it is a place so dangerous, that a man cannot bee serued with small barkes, neither can they doe their businesse with the boates of the shippes, because they would be beaten in a thousand pieces, but they make certaine barkes (of purpose) high, which they call Masadie, they be made of litle boards; one board being sowed to another with small cordes, and in this order are they made.  And when they are thus made, and the owners will embarke any thing in them, either men or goods, they lade them on land, and when they are laden, the Barke-men thrust the boate with her lading into the streame, and with great speed they make haste all that they are able to rowe out against the huge waues of the sea that are on that shore, vntill that they carie them to the ships:  and in like maner they lade these Masadies at the shippes with merchandise and men.  When they come neere the shore, the Barke-men leap out of the Barke into the Sea to keepe the Barke right that she cast not athwart the shore, and being kept right, the Suffe of the Sea setteth her lading dry on land without any hurt or danger, and sometimes there are some of them that are ouerthrowen, but there can be no great losse, because they lade but a litle at a time.  All the marchandize they lade outwards, they emball it well with Oxe hides, so that if it take wet, it can haue no great harme.