to row neere the walls with the streame, we came at noone to a bridge made of many barges, ouerlinked al together with two mightie cheines.  There stayed we vntill it was late, but we saw not one go either vp thereon or downe, except two Louteas that about the going downe of the Sunne, came and set them down there, the one on one side, the other on the other side.  Then was the bridge opened in many places, and barges both great and small to the number of sixe hundred began to passe:  those that went vp the streame at one place, such as came downe at an other.  When all had thus shot the bridge, then was it shut vp againe. [Sidenote:  The kings reuenues.] We heare say that euery day they take this order in all principall places of marchandize, for paying of the Custome vnto the king, specially for salt, whereof the greatest reuenues are made that the king hath in this Countrey.  The passage of the bridge where it is opened, be so neere the shoare, that nothing can passe without touching the same.  To stay the barges at their pleasure, that they goe no further forward, are vsed certaine iron instruments The bridge consisteth of 112. barges, there stayed we vntill the euening that they were opened, lothsomely oppressed by the multitude of people that came to see vs, so many in number, that we were enforced to go aside from the banke vntil such time as the bridge was opened:  howbeit we were neuerthelesse thronged about with many boates full of people.  And though in other Cities and places where we went, the people came so importunate vpon vs, that it was needfull to withdraw our selues:  yet were we here much more molested for the number of people:  and this bridge is the principall way out of the Citie vnto another place so wel inhabited, that were it walled about, it might be compared to the Citie.  When we had shot the bridge, we kept along the Citie vntil it was night, and then met we with another riuer that ioyned with this, we rowed vp that by the walls vntill we came to another bridge gallantly made of barges, but lesser a great deale then that other bridge ouer the greater streame:  here stayed we that night, and other two dayes with more quiet, being out of the preasse of the people.  These riuers do meet without at one corner point of the City.  In either of them were so many barges great and small, that we all thought them at the least to be aboue three thousand:  the greater number thereof was in the lesser riuer, where we were.  Amongst the rest here lay certaine greater vessels, called in their language Parai, that serue for the Tutan, when he taketh his voyage by other riuers that ioyne with this, towards Pachin, where the king maketh his abode.  For, as many times I haue erst said, all this Countrey is full of riuers.  Desirous to see those Parai we got into some of them, where we found some chambers set foorth with gilded beds very richly, other furnished with tables and seats, and all other things so neat and in perfection, that it was wonderfull.