From Medon We Went To Dela, Where There Are 18 Or 20 Great Long Houses, Where They Tame And Keep Many Elephants Belonging To The King, As Elephants Are Caught In The Wilderness Near This Place.

From Dela we went to _Cirian_, [Siriam] a good town having an excellent sea-port, to which come many ships from Mecca, Malacca, Sumatra, and other places; and there the ships discharge their cargoes, and send up their goods in paraos to Pegu.

From Siriam we went to _Macao_, a pretty town, where we left the boats, and in the morning taking _delingeges_, which are a kind of couches made of cords and quilted cloth, carried on a _stang_, or long pole, by three or four men, we came to Pegu the same day.

Pegu is a great strong and fair city, having walls of stone and great ditches all round about. It consists of two towns, the old and the new. In the old town dwell all the stranger merchants, and very many native merchants, and all the goods are sold in the old town, which is very large, and hath many extensive suburbs all round about it, all the houses being of bamboo canes and covered with straw. In your house, however, you have a warehouse, which they call a _godown_, built of bricks, in which to keep your goods, as often the city takes fire, and four or five hundred houses are burnt down, so that these _godowns_ are very useful to save your goods.

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