conuersation, and in courtesie they seeme to exceede all other.  Likewise in their dealings after their maner they are so ready, that they farre passe all other Gentiles and Moores:  the greater states are so vaine, that they line their clothes with the best silke that may be found.  The Louteas are an idle generation, without all maner of exercises and pastimes, except it be eating and drinking.  Sometimes they walke abroad in the fields to make the souldiers shoot at pricks with their bowes, but their eating passeth:  they will stand eating euen when the other do draw to shoot.  The pricke is a great blanket spread on certaine long poles, he that striketh it, hath of the best man there standing a piece of crimson Taffata, the which is knit about his head:  in this sort the winners be honoured, and the Louteas with their bellies full returne home againe.  The inhabitants of China be very great Idolaters, all generally doe worship the heauens:  and, as wee are wont to say, God knoweth it:  so say they at euery word, Tien Tautee, that is to say, The heauens doe know it.  Some doe worship the Sonne, and some the Moone, as they thinke good, for none are bound more to one then to another. [Sidenote:  After the Dutch fashion.] In their temples, the which they do call Meani, they haue a great altar in the same place as we haue, true it is that one may goe round about it There set they vp the image of a certaine Loutea of that countrey, whom they haue in great reuerence for certaine notable things he did.  At the right hand standeth the diuel much more vgly painted then we doe vse to set him out, whereunto great homage is done by such as come into the temple to aske counsell, or to draw lottes:  this opinion they haue of him, that he is malicious and able to do euil.  If you aske them what they do thinke of the souls departed, they will answere that they be immortall, and that as soone as any one departeth out of this life, he becommeth a diuel if he haue liued well in this world, if otherwise, that the same diuel changeth him into a bufle, oxe, or dogge. [Marginal note:  Pythagorean like.] Wherefore to this diuel they doe much honour, to him doe they sacrifice, praying him that he will make them like vnto himselfe, and not like other beastes.  They haue moreouer another sort of temples, wherein both vpon the altars and also on the walls do stand many idols well proportioned, but bare headed; these beare name Omithofon, accompted of them spirits, but such as in heauen doe neither good nor euill, thought to be such men and women as haue chastly liued in this world in abstinence from fish and flesh, fed onely with rise and salates.  Of that diuel they make some accompt:  for these spirits they care litle or nothing at all.  Againe they hold opinion that if a man do well in this life, the heauens will giue him many temporall blessings, but if he doe euil, then shall he haue infirmities, diseases, troubles, and penurie, and all this without any knowledge of God.  Finally, this people knoweth