they cary him out of their temple with songs, and with all kind of musical harmonie, and a great company of virgins go procession-wise two and two in a rank singing before him.  Many pilgrims also put themselues vnder the chariot wheeles, to the end that their false god may go ouer them:  and al they ouer whom the chariot runneth, are crushed in pieces, and diuided asunder in the midst, and slaine right out.  Yea, and in doing this, they think themselues to die most holily and securely, in the seruice of their god.  And by this meanes euery yere, there die vnder the said filthy idol, mo then 500. persons, whose carkases are burned, and their ashes are kept for reliques, because they died in that sort for their god.  Moreouer they haue another detestable ceremony.  For when any man offers to die in the seruice of his false god, his parents, and all his friends assemble themselues together with a consort of musicians, making him a great and solemne feast:  which feast being ended, they hange 5. sharpe kniues about his neck carying him before the idol, and so soone as he is come thither, he taketh one of his kniues crying with a loud voice, For the worship of my god do I cut this my flesh, and then he casteth the morsel which is cut, at the face of his idol:  but at the very last wound wherewith he murthereth himselfe, he vttereth these words:  Now do I yeeld my self to death in the behalfe of my god, and being dead, his body is burned, and is esteemed by al men to be holy.  The king of the said region is most rich in gold, siluer, and precious stones, and there be the fairest vnions in al the world.  Traueling from thence by the Ocean sea 50. daies iourney southward, I came vnto a certain land named Lammori, [Marginal note:  Perhaps he meaneth Comori.] where, in regard of extreeme heat, the people both men and women go stark-naked from top to toe:  who seeing me apparelled scoffed at me, saying that God made Adam et Eue naked.  In this countrey al women are common, so that no man can say, this is my wife.  Also when any of the said women beareth a son or a daughter, she bestowes it vpon any one that hath lien with her, whom she pleaseth.  Likewise al the land of that region is possessed in common, so that there is not mine and thine, or any propriety of possession in the diuision of lands:  howbeit euery man hath is owne house peculiar vnto himselfe.  Mans flesh, if it be fat, is eaten as ordinarily there, as beefe in our country.  And albeit the people are most lewd, yet the country is exceedingly good, abounding with al commodities, as flesh, corne, rise, siluer, gold, wood of aloes, Campheir, and many other things.  Marchants comming vnto this region for traffique do vsually bring with them fat men, selling them vnto the inhabitants as we sel hogs, who immediatly kil and eat them. [Sidenote:  Sumatra.] In this island towards south, there is the another kingdome called Simoltra, where both men and women marke themselues with red-hot yron in 12. sundry