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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	army_n	great_a	king_n	2,073	5	3.6840	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00052	A discouerie of the countries of Tartaria, Scithia, & Cataya, by the northeast: with the maners, fashions, and orders which are vsed in those countries. / Set foorth by Iohn Frampton merchaunt.	Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1580 (1580)	STC 11255; ESTC S92572	34,080	90

then one woman In the other they haue as many as they list or can get The manner of their buryals is not alike in all the India but diuerse and differing one from another The foremost India exceedeth the others in sumptuousnesse of their burials for they make vaultes vnder the grounde wel and cunningly wrought lay the dead body in a bed costly decked with golde and clothes verye precious In the middlemost India they burne the bodyes the firste and bestbeloued wife of him that dyeth is burned with her husbande They weepe and bewayle them that dye dyuerse kindes of wayes The Indians which are farthest within the countrey couer their heads with a sacke and some put bowes of trees by the wayes with verses written painted papers These play vpon Instruments feede the poore others there be that weepe three days for him that is dead and the kinsfolkes neighbours goe to the ●●use of the deceased and carry meate with ●hem in such sort that ther is nothing dres●●d in the dead mans house in these iii. dayes Such as bury father or mother carry a ●●tter leafe in their mouth and for the space ●f a whole yeare neuer change their appa●ell neither eate nor drinke but once a day ●either pare their nayles nor hayre of their ●ead nor beard The women bewaile such ●s dye by striking themselues vppon their ●reastes Some put in certaine vessels of gold siluer the ashes of their Princes The priestes which are called Bachales eate of 〈◊〉 beast especialy of the Oxe saying that ●e is very profitable for mā They eat ryce ●earbs fruites They take but one wife who is burned with her husbande when he ●●●th Throughout all India are founde one ●ind of Philosophers which are caled Bragmanes Astronomers also diuines They liue long yea so long vntil they come to be 300. yeares of age They vse great superstitions imaginatiōs Throughout all India they worship idols haue churches verye much like to ours paynted within with diuers figures There are in them idols of stone of gold siluer Iuorie som are 60. foote long When they enter into their temple they washe them selues with cleane water and lye downe vppon the ground and holding vp their feete and handes they praye and after kisse the earth They insence their sacrifices offer meates to their gods and after distribute them among the poore to be eaten The Chambaytas onely write in paper all the rest in leaues of trees and of them they make bookes very faire to the sight they write from aboue downewarde There are among the Indians many and diuers sortes of languages They haue a great nomber of slaues The debtor vnable to pay is driuen to serue the creditour He that is accused of any crime hauing no witnesse doth cleare him selfe by his othe only There is no pestilence in the Indias nor any other contagious diseases and for that cause there is a great multitude of people There are many kings which make an armie of more then of one Milleon of men It is sayed that in the realme of Lambry are men hauing fethers about their secrete parts both great and long like vnto Geese And in Fansur is a kinde of great trees which haue a thin rynde and vnder it is ful of meale very good of the which they make meate very excellent In all these Ilands because there is want of wine they make it of certeine trees like to Date trees of the which they breake the bowes where commeth out certeine white and red licour like 〈◊〉 wine and is very excellent to drinke and there is great store of it All those people liue beastly and haue no manner of lawe They worship the first thing that they see in the morning They eate of all dead flesh good or euill and flesh of mankinde not hauing care howe it dye In the realme of Bisina are Munkeis of diuers sortes and Vnicornes little lesser then Elephants hauing heads like to a Pigg and a long black horne in their forehead and their tongues sharpe and thornie with thornes long and great The Apes are little and haue their faces like to young children they flea them and then seeth them and dresse them with spices in such sort that there remaine no euill smell and so eate them There are in this countrey blacke valiant hawkes like to Crowes and good for the game In the same countrie when any dieth his kinsfolks eate him keepe the bones in a chest They kill all the strangers that they take and forthwith eat them if they be not redeemed The people of Nicuneya liue like beastes and go naked both men and women They vse them selues like beastes in all thinges In Nangama the people are idolaters they liue beastly and eate mans fleshe They are very cruell they haue heads like to great mastiues and teeth like to dogges teethe There is in this Ilande great quantitie of spices And departing from this countrey declyning towards the West one thousand myles which are two hundred and fiftie leages you shall come to the Iland called Saylan or Zaylan which cōtayneth in compasse three thousande myles and is the best Iland of the worlde and the richest The people are Idolaters They haue aboundance of Ryce and cattell and wine made as we haue sayde There are in it the best Rubies of the worlde and many other precious stones as Topacios Amatistas and others of diuerse sortes The king of this Ilande hath a Rubie the best of the world a spanne long and as great as an arme and as redd as fire shining without any soyle or spot The people of this countrie are very lecherous and nothing worth for the warres Neere to this Iland toward the West fourtie myles which are tenne leages there is a great prouince called Mohobar which is called the greater India This is the greatest and the best prouince in the worlde there are in it Pearles very great and fine and it is deuided into fiue realmes and all the men and women go naked sauing they carry a linnen cloth wherewith they couer their secrete places Also the king goeth naked sauing because he will be knowen he carryeth a string at his necke full of precious stones which are in nomber 54. in remembrance of so many prayers which he is bound to saye in the honour of their gods morning and euening and vpon his armes legges and feet he carryeth as manye precious stones as ●enne riche cities are worth This king hath eyght hundred women In this realme are faire women according to there fashion they paynt their faces and bodyes When the king dyeth they burne him and all such with him as kept him company in his life There is a custome in this lande that such as are condemned to death kill themselues for the loue they beare to their Idols In this countrey euery one hath as manye wyues as he can mayntayne And when the husband dyeth they