with sorrow and teares, eftsoones rooting vp with pinsars all the haire of their heads as it groweth, except it be a litle behind, the which they knot and keepe with all diligence.  Euen from their childhood they weare daggers and swords, the which they vse to lay vnder their pillowes when they goe to bed:  in shew courteous and affable, in deede haughtie and proud.  They delight most in warlike affaires, and their greatest studie is armes.  Mens apparel diuersely coloured is worne downe halfe the legges and to the elbowes:  womens attire made handsomely like vnto a vaile, is somewhat longer:  all manner of dicing and theft they do eschewe.  The marchant although he be wealthy, is not accounted of.  Gentlemen, be they neuer so poore, retaine their place:  most precisely they stand vpon their honour and worthinesse, ceremoniously striuing among themselues in courtesies and faire speeches.  Wherein if any one happily be lesse carefull than he should be, euen for a trifle many times he getteth euill will.  Want though it trouble most of them, so much they doe detest, that poore men cruelly taking pittie of their infantes newly borne, especially girles, do many times with their owne feete strangle them.  Noble men, and other likewise of meaner calling generally haue but one wife a peece, by whom although they haue issue, yet for a trifle they diuorse themselues from their wiues, and the wiues also sometimes from their husbands, to marry with others.  After the second degree cousins may there lawfully marry.  Adoption of other mens children is much vsed among them.  In great townes most men and women can write and reade.

This Nation feedeth sparingly, their vsuall meat is rice and salets, and neere the sea side fish.  They feast one another many times, wherein they vse great diligence, especially in drinking one to another, insomuch that the better sort, least they might rudely commit some fault therein, does vse to reade certaine bookes written of duties and ceremonies apperteyning vnto banquets.  To be delicate and fine, they put their meate into their mouthes with litle forkes, accounting it great rudenesse to touch it with their fingers:  winter and sommer they drinke water as hot as they may possibly abide it.  Their houses are in danger of fire, but finely made and cleane, layde all ouer with strawe-pallets, whereupon they doe both sit in stead of stooles, and lie in their clothes with billets under their heads.  For feare of defiling these pallets, they goe either bare foote within doores, or weare strawe pantofles on their buskins when they come abroad, the which they lay aside at their returne home againe.  Gentlemen for the most part do passe the night in banketting, musicke, and vaine discourses, they sleepe the day time.  In Meaco and Sacaio there is good store of beds, but they be very litle, and may be compared vnto our pues.