home, and keepe him in your house:  which is a great shame for him.  And if he pay you not presently, you may take his wife and children and his slaues, and binde them at your doore, and set them in the Sunne; for that is the law of the countrey. [Sidenote:  The money of Pegu.] Their current money in these partes is a kinde of brasse which they call Gansa, wherewith you may buy golde, siluer, rubies, ronske, and all other things.  The golde and siluer is marchandise, and is worth sometimes more, and sometimes lesse, as other wares be.  This brazen money doeth goe by a weight which they call a biza; and commonly this biza after our account is worth about halfe a crowne or somewhat lesse. [Sidenote:  The seuerall marchandises of Pegu.] The marchandise which be in Pegu, are golde, siluer, rubies, saphires, spinelles, muske, beniamin or frankincense, long pepper, tinne, leade, copper, lacca whereof they make hard waxe, rice, and wine made of rice, and some sugar.  The elephants doe eate the sugar canes, or els they would make very much. [Sidenote:  The forme of their Temples or Varellaes.] And they consume many canes likewise in making of their Varellaes or Idole Temples, which are in great number both great and small.  They be made round like a sugar loafe, some are as high as a Church, very broad beneath, some a quarter of a mile in compasse:  within they be all earth done about with stone.  They consume in these Varellaes great quantity of golde; for that they be all gilded aloft:  and many of them from the top to the bottome:  and euery ten or twelue yeeres they must be new gilded, because the raine consumeth off the golde:  for they stand open abroad.  If they did not consume their golde in these vanities, it would be very plentifull and good cheape in Pegu.  About two dayes iourney from Pegu there is a Varelle or Pagode, which is the pilgrimage of the Pegues:  it is called Dogonne, and is of a woonderfull bignesse, and all gilded from the foot to the toppe. [Sidenote:  The Tallipoies or Priests of Pegu.] And there is an house by it wherein the Tallipoies which are their priests doe preach.  This house is fiue and fifty paces in length, and hath three pawnes or walks in it, and forty great pillars gilded, which stand betweene the walks; and it is open on all sides with a number of small pillars, which be likewise gilded:  it is gilded with golde within and without.  There are houses very faire round about for the pilgrims to lie in:  and many goodly houses for the Tallipoies to preach in, which are full of images both of men and women, which are all gilded ouer with golde.  It is the fairest place as I suppose, that is in the world:  it standeth very high, and there are foure wayes to it, which all along are set with trees of fruits, in such wise that a man may goe in the shade aboue two miles in length.  And when their feast day is, a man can hardly passe by water or by land for the great presse of people; for they come from all places of the kingdome of Pegu thither at their feast.  In