and great value.  In the first is the picture of a king in golde with a crowne of golde on his head full of great rubies and saphires, and about him there stand foure children of golde.  In the second house is the picture of a man in siluer, woonderfull great, and high as an house; his foot is as long as a man, and he is made sitting, with a crowne on his head very rich with stones.  In the third house is the picture of a man greater then the other, made of brasse, with a rich crowne on his head.  In the fourth and last house doth stand another, made of brasse, greater then the other, with a crowne also on his head very rich with stones.  In another court not farre from this stand foure other Pagodes or idoles, maruellous great, of copper, made in the same place where they do stand; for they be so great that they be not to be remoued:  they stand in foure houses gilded very faire, and are themselues gilded all ouer saue their heads, and they shew like a blacke Morian.  Their expenses in gilding of their images are wonderfull.  The king hath one wife and aboue three hundred concubines, by which they say he hath fourescore or fourescore and ten children.  He sitteth in iudgement almost euery day. [Sidenote:  Paper of the leaues of a tree.] They vse no speech, but giue vp their supplications written in the leaues of a tree with the point of an yron bigger then a bodkin.  These leaues are an elle long, and about two inches broad; they are also double.  He which giueth in his supplication, doth stand in a place a little distance off with a present.  If his matter be liked of, the king accepteth of his present, and granteth his request:  if his sute he not liked of, he returneth with his present; for the king will not take it.

In India there are few commodities which serue for Pegu, except Opium of Cambaia, painted cloth of S. Thome, or of Masulipatan, and white cloth of Bengala, which is spent there in great quantity. [Sidenote:  An excellent colour with a root called Saia.] They bring thither also much cotton, yarne red coloured with a root which they call Saia, which will neuer lose his colour:  it is very wel solde here, and very much of it commeth yerely to Pegu.  By your money you lose much.  The ships which come from Bengala, S. Thome, and Masulipatan, come to the bar of Nigrais and to Cosmin.  To Martauan a port of the sea in the kingdome of Pegu come many ships from Malacca laden with Sandall, Porcelanes, and other wares of China, and with Camphora of Borneo, and Pepper from Achen in Sumatra. [Sidenote:  Woollen cloth and scarlets solde in Pegu.] To Cirion a port of Pegu come ships from Mecca with woollen cloth, Scarlets, Veluets, Opium, and such like.  There are in Pegu eight Brokers, whom they call Tareghe, which are bound to sell your goods at the price which they be woorth, and you giue them for their labour two in the hundred:  and they be bound to make your debt good, because you sell your merchandises vpon their word.  If the Broker pay you not at his day, you may take him