From Medon we went to Dela, which is a very faire towne, and hath a faire port into the sea, from whence go many ships to Malacca, Mecca, and many other places.  Here are 18. or 20. very great and long houses, where they tame and keep many elephants of the kings:  for thereabout in the wildernesse they catch the wilde elephants.  It is a very fruitfull countrey.  From Dela we went to Cirion, which is a good towne, and hath a faire porte into the sea, whither come many ships from Mecca, Malacca, Sumatra, and from diuers other places.  And there the ships staie and discharge, and send vp their goods in Paroes to Pegu. [Sidenote:  Coches caried on mens shoulders.] From Cirion we went to Macao, which is a prettie towne, where we left our boates or Paroes, and in the morning taking Delingeges, which are a kind of Coches made of cords and cloth quilted, and caried vpon a stang betweene 3. or 4. men:  we came to Pegu the same day.  Pegu is a citie very great, strong, and very faire, with walles of stone, and great ditches round about it.  There are two townes, the old towne and the newe.  In the olde towne are all the marchants strangers, and very many marchants of the countrey.  All the goods are sold in the olde towne which is very great, and hath many suburbes round about it, and all the houses are made of Canes which they call Bambos, and bee couered with strawe [’srawe’ in source text—­KTH].  In your house you haue a Warehouse which they call Godon, which is made of bricke to put your goods in, for oftentimes they take fire and burne in an houre foure or fiue hundred houses:  so that if the Gordon [sic—­KTH] were not, you should bee in danger to haue all burned, if any winde should rise, at a trice.  In the newe towne is the king, and all his Nobilitie and Gentrie.  It is a citie very great and populous, and is made square and with very faire walles, and a great ditch roundabout it full of water, with many crocodiles in it:  it hath twenty gates, and they bee made of stone, for euery square fiue gates.  There are also many Turrets for Centinels to watch, made of wood, and gilded with golde very faire.  The streets are the fairest that euer I saw, as straight as a line from one gate to the other, and so broad that tenne or twelue men may ride a front thorow them.  On both sides of them at euery mans doore is set a palmer tree which is the nut tree:  which make a very faire shew and a very commodious shadow, so that a man may walke in the shade all day.  The houses be made of wood, and couered with tiles.  The kings house is in the middle of the city, and is walled and ditched round about:  and the buildings within are made of wood very sumptuously gilded, and great workmanship is vpon the forefront, which is likewise very costly gilded.  And the house wherein his Pagode or idole standeth is couered with tiles of siluer, and all the walles are gilded with golde.  Within the first gate of the kings house is a great large roome, on both sides whereof are houses made