In Pegu, and in all the countreys of Aua, Langeiannes, Siam, and the Bramas, the men weare bunches or little round balles in their priuy members:  some of them ware two and some three.  They cut the skin and so put them in, one into one side and another into the other side; which they do when they be 25 or 30 yeeres olde, and at their pleasure they take one or more of them as they thinke good.  When they be maried the husband is for euery child which his wife hath, to put in one vntill he come to three and then no more:  for they say the women doe desire them.  They were inuented because they should not abuse the male sexe.  For in times past all those countries were so giuen to that villany, that they were very scarce of people.  It was also ordained that the women should not haue past three cubits of cloth in their nether clothes, which they binde about them; which are so strait, that when they go in the streets, they shew one side of the leg bare aboue the knee. [Sidenote:  Anthony Galuano writeth of these bals.] The bunches aforesayd be of diuers sorts:  the least be as big as a litle walnut, and very round:  the greatest are as big as a litle hennes egge:  some are of brasse and some of siluer:  but those of siluer be for the king, and his noble men.  These are gilded and made with great cunning, and ring like a litle bell.  There are some made of leade, which they call Selwy because they ring but litle:  and these be of lesser price for the poorer sort.  The king sometimes taketh his out, and giueth them to his noblemen as a great gift:  and because he hath vsed them, they esteeme them greatly.  They will put one in, and heale vp the place in seuen or eight dayes.

The Bramas which be of the kings countrey (for the king is a Brama) haue their legs or bellies, or some part of their body, as they thinke good themselues, made black with certaine things which they haue:  they vse to pricke the skinne, and to put on it a kinde of anile or blacking, which doth continue alwayes.  And this is counted an honour among them:  but none may haue it but the Bramas which are of the kings kinred.

[Sidenote:  The people of Pegu weare no beards.] These people weare no beards:  they pull out the haire on their faces with little pinsons made for that purpose.  Some of them will let 16 or 20 haires grow together, some in one place of his face and some in another, and pulleth out all the rest:  for he carieth his pinsons alwayes with him to pull the haires out assoone as they appeare.  If they see a man with a beard they wonder at him.  They haue their teeth blacked both men and women, for they say a dogge hath his teeth white, therefore they will blacke theirs.

The Pegues if they haue a suite in the law which is so doubtfull that they cannot well determine it, put two long canes into the water where it is very deepe:  and both the parties go into the water by the poles, and there sit men to iudge, and they both do diue vnder the water, and he which remaineth longest vnder the water doth winne the sute.