Linguistic DNA - Concept Modelling Demonstrator

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	island_n	lie_v	mile_n	8,075	5	9.6938	5	true

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

them Volaterrano caleth this citie Cubaleschia and sayeth it hath 32. thousand paces in circuit and it shoulde seeme to bee the same Cambalu which we haue heretofore spoken of About fifteene dayes iourney from this citie is an other citie called Neptay newly buylt hauing in circuite thirtie myles and very full of people Nicholao did affirme that the houses and palaces and all other things of these two cities were verye like to our houses and that the men were modest and full of curtesie and very riche Neare the citie of Paconia he found vines yet very fewe for all the India as is alreadie declared lacketh wine and grapes and the grapes that there be growe of trees and therewith they make sacrifice to their gods Coloen is a noble Citie twelue myles in compas it hath neare to the same much Gynger Pepper and Cloues And there be many serpentes of diuers kyndes some of sixe cubites in length wonderfull to be seene but they do no harme Others haue foure feete and a long tayle like to a dogge they take them in hunting and eat them and report it to be verye good meate Others there are of the length of a Cubite with winges that haue seuen heads set in order by the length of their bodyes and liue in trees and flye swiftly and are so full of poyson that onely with their breath they kill There are also cattes of the mountaynes that flye Cochin is an other citie that hath fiue myles in circuite and standeth at the entrie of a ryuer of the which it taketh his name wherein there are sayde to be fishes in a manner like to men and women without any great difference And passing farther they go to another citie that is called Colichuchia conteyning viii myles in circuits which is the moste famous and noble of trade in all India Here is much Pepper Lacar Ginger and grose Cinamon and manye other sweete spices In this region onely the women take as many husbandes as they liste and the husbandes agree among them selues and euery one contributeth towardes the womans mayntenance and dwelleth in his owne house and when he goeth to the woman he leaueth a signe vppon the doore Euery manchilde is the husbandes to whome the wife will giue him Their inheritaunce fall not to the sonnes but to the cousines This citie according to the signes shewes is Calicut From hence fifteene days iourney he came to the citie of Cambayta nere to the sea whose circuite is xii miles is towardes the West hauing great aboundaunce of Espico nardo Lacat Indico Mirabolanos and Sarge There is a certeine kinde of Priestes that are called Bacchales which haue but one wife who burneth her selfe with her husband when he dyeth These eate of no kinde of beast but liue with fruites of the Earth Rice milk and wild hearbes In this citie the priestes do preache to the people in the presence of their Idols And many kill themselues for the honour of their gods and those that so do are taken among them for Saintes There are many Oxen of the mountaynes that haue maynes lyke horses and hornes so long that if they turne their heads they reche with them their tayles Neare to this citie lyeth two Ilandes distant a hundreth miles a sunder the one inhabited with women and the other with men one while the men passe to the women another while the women to the men euery one returning within sixe moneths to their owne Ilands for they thinke if they continued any longer together that they should dye of the which â—eople we haue before spoken There remaineth behinde for the conclusion of this â—eregrination to treat of a region of the Siâ—as who by the North parte do border vpoÌ„ the Seras towardes the West but it is vnâ—nowen what countries there are on the South parte but that it is wildernesse Towardes the West the India lyeth neare to Ganges vnto the great gulfe that is called â—he South sea where it is sayde that the â—cthiafagi to wit such as liue onely with â—â—sh dwel It hath many cities The metroâ—olitan and principall of all is the citie of â—ina which is at the South parte Of this Ptolomeo speaketh reporting it to be vnâ—er the Equinoctiall line and that it extenâ—eth vnto the Antecos which are on the oâ—her side of the South The countrey of Gaâ—igara encloseth it on the West parte the â—nknowen countrie vnto the Promontorio â—raso and the sea of Prasodia Gatigara is â—port and a principall place where the â—hips do ryde and harbour in this region And Aspithra is a riuer and great citie in â—he same Calicut Canonor Cambayta Narsinga are no newe regions for in truth â—hey were knowen of the auncient writers and in our time haue beene discouered many and wonderfull things which are found in these East Indias newely discouered by the Spanyardes but especially in euery region of the same are some precious thinges more in particular as in the kingdome of Calicute and Narsinga groweth Pepper Ginger Cardamo Mirabolanos and Casia In Cambaya and Cochin is much Espiquenardo and Mirabolannos and also cotten woâ—l in aboundance In the realme of Pego are al the like And likewise the stone Cornerina the Calcedonia the diamoÌ„ds In the Iland of Armos are stones in great aboundance In the Iland of Zailon which is Taprobana are found Rubies and Iacinets Saphires and Topacios In the realme of Melaca are many Popingeys and Eâ—ephants In Sumotra is great aboundaunce of Pepper The Camfora is found in the Iland of Porne in Monoch Bandan which are Ilands Neare to these partes are Nutmegs and Cloues great store The Iland of Sipangry hath much golde and great riches The Iland of Petarâ— and both Iauas yeld great store of Pepper Nutmegs Espique of Galanga and other swete odours In Madagassar are many Elefants and great aboundance of Iuory very fyne The Ilande of Zauzibar is verye much like to this abounding with Lyons and many other wilde beastes Nicolao Veneciano as Pogio declareth reporteth that in the small brooks of the ryuer Ganges there were canes of a meruailous length so great that a man could skarcely insorace them about with both armes with the which they made small Boates to saile in and at euery syde of those brookes are many gardeynes and orchardes very pleasant and full of delyght And there groweth a fruite verye like to Figges that they call Musa which is exceeding sweete yea sweeter then honye It is sayde that the Ilande Taprobana conteyneth sixteene thousande tymes a hundreth thousand paces in circuite which amount to foure hundred leages accompting foure Englishe myles to euery leag The men of that Ilande were verye cruell in their manners and both the men and women haue verye great eares laden with Zarcillos of gold precious stones and they weare linnen loth and cloth of Sarge And the men take many wiues and haue lowe houses by reason of the great heat and are

burne the body according to their fashion and the women of their owne accorde leape into the fire All those are idolaters and for the most parte worship the Oxe saying he is a saint because he ploweth the grounde where the wheat groweth and therefore will not kill an Oxe for any thing in the worlde nor eate of his flesh And when any Oxe dyeth they annoynt all the house with his tallowe These people descend of such as killed saint Thomas The king and all the rest eate their meate vpon the ground There groweth nothing else in this countrey but Rice All men and women do wash them selues twice a day morning and euening and he that faileth therein shal be taken for an heretike They are good in the handeling of their weapons and fewe of them drinke wine This countrey is of an intollerable heate and it neuer rayneth in it sauing at certeine times in Iune Iuly and August There are in this region many Philosophers Necromancers and Soothsayers and blacke hawkes like to crowes great Owles like to Hennes In this prouince the body of Saint Thomas the Apostle lyeth buryed in a small citie And there liue many Christians The men of this countrey do annoynt them selues with Beniamin to make them the blacker for the blacker they are the fayrer they thinke themselues to be and they paynt theyr Idoles blacke and the diuels white In all this India they obserue neyther lawe nor order in their maryages By this course of the sea towardes the South are two Ilands of Christians thirtye myles one from the other the one of men the other of women and the men go not to the women nor the women to the men but three monethes in the yeare August September and October The men children remaine with their mothers vntill they be seuen yeares of age and then they go to their fathers They â—â—ue by flesh milke fishe and Ryce hauing â—o other victuals In this Ilande is great quantitie of Ambar Mandagaister is an oâ—er Ilande towardes the South distant from Escorcia neare 250. leages It hath in compasse one thousande fourtie miles â—hich are 260. leages It hath foure kings Mores There is not eaten in it any other â—leshe then of Elefants and Camels whereâ—f there be many and therefore there is â—reat trafique with Elefants tooth There are founde in this Ilande certeine birdes that are called Nichas so great that the greatest Feathers of their Winges are twelue paces long they are of so greate strength that they take an Elephant and carrye him vp into the ayre and kill him and after let him fall and feede vppon him at their pleasure Tanquibar is another Ilande moste noble and lyeth in the same course and hath in circuite 250. leages The inhabiters thereof are Idolaters and so great of stature that they be like Giantes and are of great force They be all blacke and go naked They are to be wondered at The women are foule and euil fauoured They are strong in battell for they esteeme not their liues Returning to the cities of Cataya and Tartaria It is sayde that the citie of Berengalia hath in circuite three score myles which are fifteene leages and that it hath nyne hundred thousande men that can carrye armour The men of that countrie take as many wiues as they list who are burned with their husbands when they dye And the king hath twelue thousande of the which two or three thousande are taken vppon condicion that when the king dyeth they of their owne accorde shall burne with him and to these is done great honour In the citie of Berengalia three times in the yeare they make a greate feast to their goddes they carrye their Idoles through the citie in procession in the middest of two cartes accompanyed with many people and manye maydens finely arrayed singing ioyfully with great deuotion they spende three dayes in bankets daunces and songes and celebrate their marryages with bankets songes and trumpets They haue all kinde of Instrustruments as we haue except Organs which they lacke They dawnce as wee do one after an other which is a thing to be seene They vse bathes except it bee such as are neare to Ganges The other washe them selues manye tymes a daye in tolde water Neare to this citie of Berengalia is a mountayne so called in the which are manye Diamonds and the mountayne is full of serpents but they take them with policye They which dwell in these countreys deuide the yeare into xii partes as we do accompt the moneths like to the xii signes The most part recken the yeare from August by Augustus Caesar In some of those realmes they vse certeine small stones for money which are called the eyes of a Catt In others they vse certeine small Irons like to needles in others certeine papers wherein is written the name of the king In some prouinces of the India more forwarde they vse Venice duccats of golde in others they haue money of siluer and copper in others they make pieces of golde and vse them for money Malpuria or Malapuria or Milipar is an other citie in the prouince of Mahabaria neare to the second entrance that the riuer Indo doth runne in at where the body of saint Thomas the Apostle is honorably buryed in an honorable church where are resident well neare 1000 Christians of the Nestorians of the which are many throughout all the India euen as the Iewes are here among vs. In the prouince of Macino which Volaterano thinketh to be the region of the Seras are many Elephants The king bringeth vp tenne thousande and vseth of them in his warres The men of this countrey take but one wife apeece The women are verye lecherous They are all Idolaters and in the morning they turne towards the Sunne They worship the diuinitie of God in Trinitie In this region is a ryuer called Daua well neare as great as Ganges the citie is called Dua it hath 18000. paces in circuite they write in the leaues of certeine trees for in all the India is no paper except onely in the citie of Cambayta They eate Serpents that are vi foote in length as groâ—e as a man They eate likewise Ants which are red and as great as crabbes In the end of this region towards Cataya are certeine Oxen white and blacke with maynes and tayles like horses hauing longer hayre The hayres of their tayles are very small as light as fethers they sell theÌ„ by waight they are highly esteemed Cibalechia is a royall citie and one of the chiefest in all Cataya it hath xxviii miles in circuite and in the middest a pallace very strong and faire and at euery end a round fort of foure miles compasse for a house of armour where is all kinde of armour and engins necessarye and that may be imagined for the warres From the kings pallace to euery one of these fortes is a wall with arches from whence the king may passe to any of

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