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A00611	The voyage and trauaile of M. Cæsar Frederick, merchant of Venice, into the East India, the Indies, and beyond the Indies. Wherein are contained very pleasant and rare matters, with the customes and rites of those countries. Also, heerein are discovered the merchandises and commodities of those countreyes, aswell the aboundaunce of goulde and siluer, as spices, drugges, pearles, and other jewelles. Written at sea in the Hercules of London: comming from Turkie, the 25. of March. 1588. For the profitabvle instruction of merchants and all other trauellers for their better direction and knowledge of those countreyes. Out of Italian, by T H.; Viagge de M. Cesare de i Federici, nell' India Orientale, et oltra l'India. English	Federici, Cesare.; Hickock, Thomas.	1588 (1588)	STC 10746; ESTC S112444	73,405	88

downe and in the time I rested there I sawe manye strange and beastlye déedes doone of the Gentiles First when there is any noble man or woman dead they burne their bodies if a maried man die his wife must burne hir selfe aliue for the loue of hir husband and with the bodye of hir husband so that when anye man dyeth their wiues will take a monthes leaue two or thrée or as they will to burne themselues in and that daye being come wherein she ought to be burnt that morning she goeth out of hir house very earlye either on Horssebacke or one an Eliphant or else is borne by eight men on a small stage in one of these orders she goeth being apparrelled like to a Bride carried rounde about the Cittye with hir hayre downe about hir shoulders garnished with Jewels flowers according to the estate of the partye and they goe with as great ioye as Brides doo in Venis to the nuptials shée carryeth in hir left hand a looking Glasse and in hir right hand an arrow and singeth through the cittie as she passeth and saith that shee goeth to sléepe with hir déere spowse and husband She is accompanyed with hir kindred and fréends vntill it be one or two of the clocke in the after noone then they go out of the citie and going along the Riuers side called Nigondin which runneth vnder the walles of the cittye vntill they come to a place where they vse to make this burning of women being widowes there is prepared in this place a great square caue with a little pinnacle hard by it foure or fiue steps vp the aforesaid caue is full of dryed wood the woman being come thither accompanied with a number of people which come to sée the thing then they make readye a great banquet and she that shall be burned eateth with great ioye and gladnesse as though it were hir marriage daye and the feast being ended then they goe to dancing and singing a certaine time according as she will after this the woman of hir owne accord commandeth then to make the fire in the square Caue where the drye wood is and when it is kindled they come and certifie hir thereof then presently shee leaueth the feast and taketh the nearest kinsman of hir husband by the hand and they both go together to the banke of the aforesaid riuer where she putteth off all hir Jewels all hir clothes giueth them to hir parents or kinsfolke and couering hir selfe with a cloth bicause shee will not be séene of the people being naked she throweth hir selfe into the riuer saying Oh wretches that ye wash your sinnes Comming out of the water she rowleth hir selfe into a yellow cloth of 14 braces long and againe she taketh hir husbands kinsman by the hand and they goe both together vp to the pinacle of the square caue wherin the fire is made when she is on the pinacle she talketh and reasoneth with the people recommending vnto them hir children and kindred Before the pinacle they vse to set a Mat because they shall not see the fiercenes of the fire yet there is manye that will haue them plucked awaye shewing therein a heart not fearfull and that they are not afraid of that sight When this sillye woman hath reasoned with the people a good while to hir content there is another woman that taketh a pot with oyle and sprinckleth it ouer her head and with the same she annoynteth all hir body and afterwards throweth the pot into the Fornace and both the woman and the pot goeth together into the fire and presentlye the people that are round about the furnace throw after hir into the caue great péeces of wood so by this meanes with the fire with the blowes that she hath with the wood throwne after hir she is quickly dead and after this there groweth such sorowe and such lamentation amongst the people that all their mirth is turned into howling and wéeping in such wise that a man could scarse beare the hearing of it I haue seene many burnt in this manner because my house was néere to the gate where they go out to the place of burning when there dyeth anye great man his wife with all his slaues with whome hee hath had carnall copulation burne themselues together with him Also in this kingdome I haue séene amongst the base sort of people this vse and order that the man being dead he is is carried to the place where they will make his sepulcher and setting him as it were vpright sitting then commeth his wife before him on hir knées casting hir armes about his neck with imbracing and clasping him vntill such time as the Masons haue made a wall round about them and when the wall is as highe as their neckes there commeth a man behind the woman strangleth her then when she is dead the workmen finish the wall ouer their heads and so they lie buryed both together Beside these there is an infinite number of beastlye qualities amongst the which I haue no desire to write of them I was very desirous to know the cause whye these women would so wilfullye burne themselues against nature and lawe and it was tolde me that this lawe was of an ancient time to make prouision against the slaughters which women made of their husbands For in those daies before this lawe was made the women for euery little displeasure that their husbands had doone vnto them they would presentlye poyson their husbands and take other men and now by reason of this lawe they are more faithfull to their husbands and count their liues as deare as their owne bicause that after his death hir owne followeth presently In the yeare 1567. the people of Bezeneger for the ill successe that they had in that their Citie was sacked by the foure kings The king with his court went to dwell in a castell eight dayes iorneye vp in the lande from Bezeneger called Penegonde Also sixe daies iorney from Bezeneger is ●he place where they get Diamants I was not there but it was told me that it is a great place compassed with a wall and that they sell the earth within the wall for so much a Squadro the limits is set how déepe or howe lowe they shall dig those Diamants that are of a certaine sise and bigger then that sise all those be for the king it is many yeares agone since they got anye there for the troubles that hath béene in that kingdome the first cause of this trouble was because the sonne of this Temeragio had put to death the lawfull king which he had in prison for which cause the Barons and Noblemen in that kingdome would not acknowledge him to be their king and by this meanes there is manye kings and great deuision in that kingdome and the Citye of Bezeneger is not altogether destroyed yet the houses stand styll but

in the aforesaide port wee rowed all that day and a great part of the next night and all the next day without finding harbour or any signe of good landing and this came to passe through the euill counsel of the two Portugalles that were with vs. For we had ouershot the harbour and left it behind vs in such wise that we had loste the lande enhabited with the ship and we twentie eight men had no maner of victuall with vs in the boate but it was the Lordes will that one of the Mariners had brought a litle Ryce with him in the boat to barter away for some other thing and it was not so much but that three or fowre men would haue eate● it at a meale I tooke the gouernment of this Ryce promising that by the helpe of God that Ryce should be nourishment for vs vntill it plesed God to send vs to some place that was enhabited and when I slept I put the ryce into my bosome because they shoulde not rob it from me we were nine dayes rowing alongst the coast without finding any thing but Countries vninhabited and deserts Iland wher if we had found but grasse it woulde haue séemed Sugar vnto vs but wee coulde not finde any yet wee founde a fewe leaues of a tree and they were so hard that we could not chew them we had Water and Wood sufficient and as we rowed we could goe but by flowing Water for when it was ebbing Water we made fast our boat to the bancke of one of those Ilands and in these nine dayes that we rowed wee found a caue or nest of Tortugaes egges wherein was a hundred fortie fowre egges the which was a great helpe vnto vs these egges are as big as a hennes egge and haue no shell about them but a tender Skinne euerie day wee sodde a kettle full of them egges with an handfull of ryce in the broth thereof it pleased God that at the ende of nine dayes wee discouered certaine fisher men a fishing with small barkes and wee rowed towards them with a good chéere for I thinke there were neuer men more glad then we were for we were so sore afflicted with penurie that we could skarce stand on our legs yet according to the order that we set for our ryce when we saw those fisher men there was left sufficient for foure days The first village that we came too was in the gulfe of Tauay vnder the King of Pegu whereas wee founde greate store of victualles then for two or thrée dayes after our ariuall there wee woulde eate but little meate anie of vs and yet for all this we were at the point of death the most part of vs. From Tauay to Martauan in the Kingdome of Pegu are seuentie two miles We laded our boate with victuals which was aboundantly sufficient for sixe monethes from whence wee departed for the porte and Citie of Martauan where in short time we ariued but wee founde not our ship there as we had thought we shoulde from whence presently wee made out two backes to goe to looke for her And they founde her in greate calamitie and néede of Water being at an ancker with a contrarie winde and came very yll to passe because that shee wanted her boate a moneth which should haue made her prouision of wood and water The ship also by the grace of God ariued safely in the aforesaide port of Martauan The Citie of Martauan WE founde in the Citie of Martauan ninetie Portugalles of Merchantes and other base men which had fallen at difference with the Retor or gouernour of the Citie and for this cause that certaine vagabondes of the Portugalles had slayne fiue falchines of the Kinges of Pegu which chaunced about a moneth after that the King of Pegu was gone with a million and foure hundreth thousande men to conquer the kingdome of Sion they haue for custome in this Countrey and Kingdome that the King being wheresoeuer his pleasure is to bée out of his kingdome that euerie fiftéene dayes there goeth from Pegu a carauan of Falchines with euerie one a basket on his heade full with some fruites or other delicates of refreshings and with cleane clothes it chaunsed that this carauan passing by Martauan and resting themselues there a night there happened betwéene the Portugalles and them wordes of dispight and from words to blowes and because it was thought that the Portugalles had the worse the night following when the Falchines were a sleepe with their companie the Portugalles went and cut off fiue of their heades Nowe there is a Lawe in Pegu that whosoeuer killeth a man hee shall buy the shed bloud with his monie according to the estate of the person that is slaine but these Falchines beeing the seruauntes of the King the Retors durst not doe any thing in the matter without the consent of the King because it was necessarie that the King shoulde knowe of such a matter When the King had knowledge thereof he gaue commaundement that the malifactors shoulde bee kept vntill his comming home and then he would duely minister iustice but the captaine of the Portugalles woulde not deliuer those men but rather set himselfe with all the rest in armes and went euerie day through the citie marching with the Drumme and ancient displayd For at that time the Citie was emptie of men by reason they were gone al to the warres and in businesse of the king in the midst of this rumour we came thether and I thought it a straunge thing to see the Portugalles vse such insolencie in another mans Cittie And I stoode in doubte of that which came to passe would not vnlade my goodes because y ● they were more surer in the ship then on the land the greatest part of the lading was the owners of the ship who was in Malacca yet there were diuers merchāts there but their goods were of small importāce al those merchants told me y ● they woulde not vnlade any of their goodes there vnlesse I would vnlade first yet after they left my counsell folowed their own and put their goods a land and lost it euerie whit The Rector with the customer sent for me and demaunded why I put not my goods a lande and pay my custome as other men did to whom I answered that I was a merchant that was newly come thither séeing such disorder amongst the Portugalles I doubted the losse of my goodes which cost me very dear with the sweate of my face and for this cause I was determined not to put my goodes a lande vntill such time as his honour would assure me in the name of the king that I shoulde haue no losse although there came harme to the Portugalles that I nor my goodes should not haue any hurt because I had neither part nor any difference with them in this rumor my reason sounded well in the Retors eares and presently commaunded to cal the Bargits