or branches being as big as a good Cane, are
platted one very close to another, and so being fastned and tyed to
three or four upright spars, are made in the fashion of a Door. This
is hung upon a Door-case some ten or twelve foot high, (so that they
may, and do ride thro upon Elephants) made of three pieces of Timber
like a Gallows, after this manner the Thorn door hanging upon the
transverse piece like a Shop window; and so they lift it up, or clap
it down, as there is occasion: and tye it with a Rope to a cross Bar.

[None to pass from the Kings City without Pasports.] But especially
in all Roads and Passages from the City where the King now Inhabits,
are very strict Watches set: which will suffer none to pass not having
a Passport: which is the print of a Seal in clay: It is given at the
Court to them that have Licence to go thro the Watches. The Seals are
different, according to the Profession of the Party: as to a Soldier
the print of a man with a Pike on his Shoulder: to a Labourer, a
Man with two Bags hanging on each end of a Pole upon his Shoulder,
which is the manner they commonly carry their Loads. And to a white
man, the Passport is the print of a Man with a Sword by his side,
and a Hat on his head. And so many Men as there are in the Company,
so many prints there must be in the Clay. There is not half the
examination for those that come into the City, as for those that go
out, whom they usually search to see what they carry with them.

[Their Soldiery.] To speak now of their Soldiery, their Expeditions
and manner of Fight. Besides the Dissauvas, spoken of before, who
are great Generals, there are other great Captains. As those they
call Mote-Ralls; as much as to say, Scribes. Because they keep the
Rolls or Registers of certain Companies of Soldiers, each containing
970 Men, who are under their Command. Of these Mote-Ralls, there are
four principal. But besides these, there are smaller Commanders over
Soldiers; who have their Places from the King, and are not under the
Command of the former great ones.

[All Men of Arms wait at Court.] All these both Commanders and common
Soldiers must wait at the Court. But with this difference. The great
Men must do it continually: each one having his particular Watch
appointed by the King. But the private Soldiers take their turns of
Watching. And when they go, they do carry all their Provisions for the
time of their stay with them upon their Backs. These Soldiers are