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.

The 10 of January I went from Pegu to Malacca, passing by many of the ports
of Pegu, as Martauan, the Iland of Taui, from whence commeth great store of
tinne, which serueth all India, the Ilands of Tanaseri, Iunsalaon, and many
others; and so came to Malacca the 8 of February, where the Portugals haue
a castle which standeth nere the sea. And the countrey fast without the
towne belongeth to the Malayos, which is a kinde of proud people. They go
naked with a cloth about their middle, and a litle roll of cloth about
their heads; Hither come many ships from China and from the Malucos, Banda,
Timor, and from many other Ilands of the Iauas, which bring great store of
spices and drugs, and diamants and other iewels. The voyages into many of
these Ilands belong vnto the captaine of Malacca: so that none may goe
thither without his licence: which yeeld him great summes of money euery
yeere. The Portugals heere haue often times warres with the king of Achem
which standeth in the Iland of Sumatra: from whence commeth great store of
pepper and other spices euery yeere to Pegu and Mecca within the Red sea,
and other places.

[Sidenote: The voyage to Iapan.] When the Portugals go from Macao in China
to Iapan, they carry much white silke, golde, muske, and porcelanes: and
they bring from thence nothing but siluer. They haue a great caracke which
goeth thither euery yere, and she bringeth from thence euery yere abouve
sixe hundred thousand crusadoes: and all this siluer of Iapan, and two