In Another Court Not Far From This, There Are Four Other Pagodas Or Idols Of Wonderful Size, Made Of Copper, Which Were Formed In The Places In Which They Now Stand, Being Of Such Enormous Size That They Could Not Be Removed.

These stand in four separate houses, and are gilded all over except their heads, which resemble black-a-moors.

The expences of these people in gilding their images are quite enormous. The king has only one wife, but above 300 concubines, by whom he is said to have 80 or 90 children. He sits in judgment every day, on which occasion the applicants use no speech, but give up their supplications in writing, being upon long slips of the leaves of a tree, a yard long and about two inches broad, written with a pointed iron or stile like a bodkin. He who gives in his application, stands at some distance carrying a present. If his application is to be complied with, his present is accepted and his request granted; but if his suit be denied he returns home with his present.

There are few commodities in India which serve for trade at Pegu, except opium of Cambaia, painted cottons from San Thome or Masulipatam, and white cloth of Bengal, vast quantities of which are sold here. They bring likewise much cotton yarn, dyed red with a root called _saia_, which never loses its colour, a great quantity of which is sold yearly in Pegu at a good profit.

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