And when they be sicke a Tallipoy or two euery night doth sit by them and
sing, to please the diuell that he should not hurt them. [Sidenote: They
burne their dead.] And if any die he is caried vpon a great frame made like
a tower, with a couering all gilded with golde made of canes caried with
foureteene or sixteene men, with drummes and pipes and other instruments
playing before him to a place out of the towne and there is burned. He is
accompanied with all his friends and neighbours, all men: and they giue to
the tallipoies or priests many mats and cloth: and then they returne to the
house and there make a feast for two dayes: and then the wife with all the
neighbours wiues and her friends go to the place where he was burned, and
there they sit a certaine time and cry and gather the pieces of bones which
be left vnburned and bury them, and then returne to their houses and make
an end of all mourning. And the men and women which be neere of kin do
shaue their heads, which they do not vse except it be for the death of a
friend: for they much esteeme of their haire.

Caplan [Marginal note: Caplan is the place the rubies and other precious
stones are found.] is the place where they finde the rubies, saphires, and
spinelles: it standeth sixe dayes iourney from Aua in the kingdome of Pegu.
There are many great high hilles out of which they digge them. None may go
to the pits but onely those which digge them.

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