with such fiercenesse, that houses loose their foundations in their currants, and fall to the ground; from whence also followes great landflouds, to this countrey no lesse commodious, then the inundation of nilus to the Egiptians by receiving the flouds <in> their rice grounds, and then retayning it untill the earth drinking it in, becomes the better enabled to endure an eight moneths abstinence; for in eight moneths it never rayneth November December, January, and february, they account their cooler times, and are so indeed compared to the former, yet as hot as it is here <in> ingland in May

Distinctions, which some christians find out to coozen themselves withall, onely once a yeere on their anniversary day, they keep their festivials, and to some of them repaire many thousands of people (as I my selfe have seene) some for devotion, and they fast 24 houres, wash their bodies, and burne lamps within or as neere the pagode as they can get, some to see their friends, children, or kindred, which will not faile to meet