There is a country 4. daies iourney from Couche or Quicheu before mentioned, which is called Bottanter and the citie Bottia, the king is called Dermain; the people whereof are very tall and strong, and there are marchants which come out of China, and they say out of Muscouia or Tartarie.  And they come to buy muske, cambals, agats, silke, pepper and saffron like the saffron of Persia.  The countrey is very great, 3. moneths iourney.  There are very high mountains in this countrey, and one of them so steep that when a man is 6. daies iourney off it, he may see it perfectly.  Vpon these mountains [Marginal note:  These seeme to be the mountains of Iamus, called by the people Cumao.] are people which haue eares of a spanne long:  if their eares be not long, they call them apes.  They say that when they be vpon the mountaines, they see ships in the Sea sayling to and fro; but they know not from whence they come, nor whether they go.  There are marchants which come out of the East, they say, from vnder the sunne, which is from China, which haue no beards, and they say there it is something warme.  But those which come from the other side of the mountains which is from the North, say there it is very cold. [Sidenote:  The apparel of the Tartarie marchants.] These Northern merchants are apparelled with woollen cloth and hats, white hosen close, and bootes which be of Moscouia or Tartarie.  They report that in their countrey they haue very good horses, but they be litle:  some men haue foure, fiue, or sixe hundred horses and kine:  they liue with milke and fleshe. [Sidenote:  Cowe tailes in great request.] They cut the tailes of their kine, and sell them very deere, for they bee in great request, and much esteemed in those partes.  The haire of them is a yard long, the rumpe is aboue a spanne long:  they vse to hang them for brauerie upon the heades of their Elephantes:  they bee much vsed in Pegu and China:  they buie and sell by scores vpon the ground.  The people be very swift on foote.

From Chatigan in Bengala, I came to Bacola; the king whereof is a Gentile, a man very well disposed and delighteth much to shoot in a gun.  His countrey is very great and fruitful, and hath store of Rice, much cotton cloth, and cloth of silke.  The houses be very faire and high builded, the streetes large, the people naked, except a litle cloth about their waste.  The women weare great store of siluer hoopes about their neckes and armes, and their legs are ringed with siluer and copper, and rings made of elephants teeth.

From Bacola I went to Serrepore which standeth vpon the riuer of Ganges, the king is called Chondery.  They be all hereabout rebels against their king Zelabdim Echebar:  for here are so many riuers and Ilands, that they flee from one to another, whereby his horsemen cannot preuaile against them.  Great store of cotton cloth is made here.