o the caue great pieces of wood, so by this
meanes, with the fire and with the blowes that she hath with the wood
throwen after her, she is quickly dead, and after this there groweth such
sorrow and such lamentation among the people, that all their mirth is
turned into howling and weeping, in such wise, that a man could scarse
beare the hearing of it. [Sidenote: Mourning when they should reioice.] I
haue seene many burnt in this maner, because my house was neere to the gate
where they goe out to the place of burning: and when there dieth any great
man, his wife with all his slaues with whom hee hath had carnall
copulation, burne themselues together with him. Also in this kingdome I
haue seene amongst the base sort of people this vse and order, that the man
being dead, he is carried to the place where they will make his sepulchre,
and setting him as it were vpright, then commeth his wife before him on her
knees, casting her armes about his necke, with imbracing and clasping him,
vntill such time as the Masons haue made a wall round about them, and when
the wall is as high as their neckes, there commeth a man behinde the women
and strangleth her: then when she is dead, the workemen finish the wall
ouer their heads, and so they lie buried both together. Besides these,
there are an infinite number of beastly qualities amongst them, of which I
haue no desire to write. [Sidenote: The cause why the women do so burne
themselues.] I was desirous to know the cause why these women would so
wilfully burne themselues against nature and law, and it was told mee that
this law was of an antient time, to make prouision against the slaughters
which women made of their husbands. For in those dayes before this law was
made, the women for euery little displeasure that their husbands had done
vnto them, would presently poison their husbands, and take other men, and
now by reason of this law they are more faithfull vnto their husbands, and
count their liues as deare as their owne, because that after his death her
owne followeth presently.

In the yeere of our Lord God 1567, for the ille successe that the people of
Bezeneger had, in that their City was sacked by the foure kings, the king
with his Court went to dwell in a castle eight dayes iourney vp in the land
from Bezenger, called Penegonde. Also sixe dayes iourney from Bezenger, is
the place where they get Diamants: I was not there, but it was tolde me
that it is a great place, compassed wit