rell that they vse in
Bezeneger is Veluet, Satten, Damaske, Scarlet, or white Bumbast cloth,
according, to the estate of the person with long hats on their heads,
called Colae, made of Veluet, Satten, Damaske, or Scarlet, girding
themselues in stead of girdles with some fine white bombast doth: they
haue breeches after the order of the Turks: they weare on their feet plaine
high things called of them Aspergh, and at their eares they haue hanging
great plenty of golde.

Returning to my voyage, when we were together in Ancola, one of my
companions that had nothing to lose, tooke a guide, and went to Goa,
whither they goe in foure dayes, the other Portugall not being disposed to
go, tarried in Ancola for that Winter. [Sidenote: Their Winter is our
Summer.] The Winter in those parts of the Indies beginneth the fifteenth of
May, and lasteth vnto the end of October: and as we were in Ancola, there
came another Marchant of horses in a palanchine, and two Portugall
souldiers which came from Zeilan, and two cariers of letters, which were
Christians borne in the Indies; all these consorted to goe to Goa together,
and I determined to goe with them, and caused a pallanchine to be made for
me very poorely of Canes; and in one of them Canes I hid priuily all the
iewels I had, and according to the order, I tooke eight Falchines to cary
me: and one day about eleuen of the clocke wee set forwards on our iourney,
and about two of the clocke in the afternoone, as we passed a mountains
which diuideth the territory of Ancola and Dialcan, I being a little
behinde my company was assaulted by eight theeues, foure of them had
swordes and targets, and the other foure had bowes and arrowes. When the
Falchines that carried me vnderstood the noise of the assault, they let the
pallanchine and me fall to the ground, and ranne away and left me alone,
with my clothes wrapped about me: presently the theeues were on my necke
and rifeling me, they stripped me starke naked, and I fained my selfe
sicke, because I would not leaue the pallanchine, and I had made me a
little bedde of my clothes; the theeues sought it very narrowly and
subtilly, and found two pursses that I had, well bound vp together, wherein
I had put my Copper money which I had changed for foure pagodies in Ancola.
The theeues thinking it had beene so many duckats of golde, searched no
further: then they threw all my clothes in a bush, and hied them away, and
as God would haue it, at their de