Other canes there be also called Cassan, which overspread the earth like grasse, and out of euery knot of them spring foorth certaine branches, which are continued vpon the ground almost for the space of a mile.  In the sayd canes there are found certaine stones, one of which stones, whoseuer carryeth about with him, cannot be wounded with any yron:  and therefore the men of that countrey for most part, carry such stones with them, whithersoeuer they goe.  Many also cause one of the armes of their children, while they are yong, to be launced, putting one of the said stones in the wound, healing also, and closing vp the said wound with the powder of a certaine fish (the name whereof I do not know) which powder doth immediatly consolidate and cure the said wound.  And by the vertue of these stones, the people aforesaid doe for the most part triumph both on sea and land.  Howbeit there is one kind of stratageme, which the enemies of this nation, knowing the vertue of the sayd stones, doe practise against them:  namely, they prouide themselues armour of yron or steele against their arrowes, and weapons also poisoned with the poyson of trees, and they carry in their hands wooden stakes most sharpe and hard-pointed, as if they were yron:  likewise they shoot arrowes without yron heads, and so they confound and slay some of their vnarmed foes trusting too securely vnto the vertue of their stones. [Sidenote:  Sayles made of reedes.] Also Of the foresayd canes called Cassan they make sayles for their ships, and litle houses, and many other necessaries. [Sidenote:  Campa.] From thence after many dayes trauell, I arrived at another kingdome called Campa, a most beautiful and rich countrey, and abounding with all kind of victuals:  the king whereof, at my being there, had so many wiues and concubines, that he had 300 sonnes and daughters by them.  This king hath 10004 tame Elephants, which are kept euen as we keepe droues of oxen, or flocks of sheepe in pasture.

Of the abundance of fishes, which cast themselues vpon the shore.

In this countrey there is one strange thing to be obserued, that euery seueral kind of fishes in those seas come swimming towards the said countrey in such abundance, that, for a great distance into the sea, nothing can be seene but the backs of fishes:  which, casting themselues vpon the shore when they come neare vnto it, do suffer men, for the space of 3. daies, to come and to take as many of them as they please, and then they returne againe vnto the sea.  After that kind of fishes comes another kind, offering it selfe after the same maner, and so in like sort all other kinds whatsoeuer:  notwithstanding they do this but once in a yere.  And I demaunded of the inhabitants there, how, or by what meanes this strange accident could come to passe:  They answered, that fishes were taught, euen by nature, to come and to do homage vnto their Emperour. [Sidenote:  Tortoises.] There be Tortoises also as bigge as an ouen.  Many other things I saw which are incredible,