[Their Furniture.] Their Furniture is but small.  A few earthen pots which hang up in slings made of Canes in the middle of their houses, having no shelves; one or two brass Basons to eat in, a stool or two without backs.  For none but the King may sit upon a stool with a back.  There are also some baskets to put corn in, some mats to spread upon the ground to sleep on:  which is the bedding both for themselves and friends when they come to their houses.  Also some Ebeny pestels about four foot long to beat rice out of the husk, and a wooden Morter to beat it in afterwards to make it white, a Hirimony or Grater to grate their Coker-nuts with, a flat stone upon which they grind their Pepper and Turmeric, &c.  With another stone which they hold in their hands at the same time.  They have also in their houses Axes, Bills, Houghs, Atches Chissels, and other Tools for their use.  Tables they have none, but sit and eat on the ground.

[How they eat.] And now we are mentioning eating, let us take a view of this people at their meals.  Their Dyet and ordinary fare is but very mean, as to our account.  If they have but Rice and Salt in their house, they reckon they want for nothing.  For with a few green Leaves and the juice of a Lemmon with Pepper and Salt, they will make a hearty meal.  Beef here may not be eaten; it is abominable:  Flesh and Fish is somewhat scarce.  And that little of it they have, they had rather sell to get mony to keep, then eat it themselves:  neither is there any but outlandish men, that will buy any of them.  It is they indeed do eat the fat and best of the Land.  Nor is it counted any shame or disgrace, to be a niggard and sparing in dyet; but rather a credit even to the greatest of them, that they can fare hard and suffer hunger, which they say, Soldiers ought to be able to endure.

[How the great men eat.] The great ones have always five or fix sorts of food at one meal, and of them not above one or two at most of Flesh or Fish, end of them more pottage than meat, after the Portugal fashion.  The rest is only what groweth out of the ground.  The main substance with which they fill their bellies is Rice, the other things are but to give it a relish.

[Discouraged from nourishing Cattel.] If these people were not discouraged from rearing and nourishing of Cattle and Poultry, provisions might be far more plentiful.  For here are many Jackalls, which catch their Hens and some Tigres, that destroy their Cattle:  but the greatest of all is the King; whose endeavour is to keep them poor and in want.  For from them that have Hens his Officers take them for the Kings use giving little or nothing for them; the like they do by Hogs.  Goats none are suffered to keep, besides the King, except strangers.

[Cleanly in dressing their meet.] In dressing of their victuals they are not to be discommended:  for generally they are cleanly and very handy about the fame.  And after one is used to that kind of fare, as they dress it, it is very savoury and good.  They sit upon a mat on the ground, and eat.  But he, whom they do honour and respect, sits on a stool and his victuals on another before him.