hired therefore by the king, the chest is 6. handfuls high, the prisoner sitteth therein vpon a bench, the couer of the chest is two boords, amid them both a pillery-like hole, for the prisoners necke, there sitteth he with his head without the chest, and the rest of his body within, not able to mooue or turne his head this way or that way, nor to plucke it in; the necessities of nature he voydeth at a hole in the bottome of a chest, the meate he eateth is put into his mouth by others.  There abideth he day and night during his whole iourney:  if happily his porters stumble, or the chest do iogge or be set down carelessly, it turneth to his great paines that sitteth therein, al such motions being vnto him hanging as it were.  Thus were our companions carried from Cinceo, 7. dayes iourney, neuer taking any rest as afterward they told vs, and their greatest griefe was to stay by the way:  as soone as they came, being taken out of the chests, they were not able to stand on their feet, and two of them died shortly after.  When we lay in prison at Fuquieo, we came many times abroad, and were brought to the pallaces of noble men, to be seene of them and their wiues, for that they had neuer seene any Portugale before.  Many things they asked vs of our Countrey, and our fashions, and did write euery thing, for they be curious in nouelties aboue measure.  The gentlemen shew great curtesie vnto strangers, and so did we finde at their hands, and because that many times we were brought abroad into the City, somewhat wil I say of such things as I did see therein, being a gallant City, and chiefe in one of the 13. shires aforesaid.  The City Fuquieo is very great, and mightily walled with square stone both within and without, and, as it may seeme by the breadth thereof, filled vp in the middle with earth, layd ouer with brick and couered with tyle, after the maner of porches or galleries, that one might dwel therein.  The staires they vse are so easily made, that one may go them vp and downe a horse-backe, as eftsoones they do:  the streets are paued, as already it hath bin said:  there be a great number of Marchants, euery one hath written in a great table at his doore such things as he hath to sel.  In like maner euery artisane painteth out his craft:  the market places be large, great abundance of al things there be to be sold.  The city standeth vpon water, many streames run through it, the banks pitched, and so broad that they serue for streets to the cities vse.  Ouer the streams are sundry bridges both of timber and stone, which being made leuel with the streets, hinder not the passage of the barges too and fro, the chanels are so deepe.  Where the streames come in and go out of the city, be certaine arches in the wal, there go in and out their Parai, that is a kind of barges they haue, and that in the day time only:  at night these arches are closed vp with gates, so do they shut vp al the gates of the City.  These streames and barges do ennoblish very much the City, and make it as it were to seeme