ey walk they chew Betel. But notwithstanding
all their bravery neither man nor woman wears shoos or stockings,
that being a Royal dress, and only for the King himself.

[They commonly borrow their fine cloths.] It is in general a common
custom with all sorts of People, to borrow Apparel or Jewels to wear
when they go abroad, which being so customary is no shame nor disgrace
to them, neither do they go about to conceal it. For among their
friends or strangers where they go, they will be talking saying, This
I borrowed of such an one, and this of another body. Their Poverty
is so great, that their ability will not reach to buy such Apparel
as they do desire to wear; which nevertheless is but very mean and
ordinary at the best.

CHAP. VII.

Of their Lodging, Bedding, Whoredom, Marriages, and Children.

Having been thus entertained with the fine Ladies abroad, it is time
now to return home to our Lodging. And the night coming on, we will
lead you to their Bed-Chambers, and shew you how they sleep. About
which they are not very curious. If their house be but one room (as
it often is) then the men sleep together at one end and the women at
the other.

[Their Bed, and how they sleep a nights.] They have Bedsteads laced
with Canes or Rattans, but no Testars to them, nor Curtains; that the
King allows not of; neither have they nor care they for more than
one Bedstead, which is only for the Master of the house to sit or
sleep on. To this Bedstead belongs two mats and a straw Pillow. The
Woman with the Children always lyes on the ground on mats by the
fire-side. For a Pillow she lays a block or such like thing under
her mat, but the Children have no Pillows at all. And for covering
and other bedding they use the cloth they wear by day. But always at
their feet they will have a fire burning all night. Which makes more
work for the Women; who must fetch it all upon her head. For it is
accounted a disgrace for the man to meddle or make with those affairs,
that properly do belong unto the Woman.

[They rise in the night.] The younger sort of Children, such as go
naked by day, creep in under a corner of their mothers cloths. And
if they feel themselves cold in the night, they rise and blow the
fire with their mouths, having no Bellows in that Countrey, and so
sit and warm themselves thereby.

They are so little given to sleep, that they do rise many times in
the night to eat Beatel and to take Tobacco. Which done t