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