The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10: Asia, Part IIIHakluyt, Richard
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10: Asia, Part III
Hakluyt, Richard
Discoveries in geography -- English; Voyages and travels
serion, vpon ten or twelue mens shoulders in the apparell of a Tallipoie,
with pipes and drummes, and many Tallipoies with him, and al his friends,
and so they go with him to his house which standeth without the towne, and
there they leaue him. Euery one of them hath his house, which is very
little, set vpon six or eight posts, and they go vp to them with a ladder
of twelue or foureteene staues. Their houses be for the most part by the
hie wayes side, and among the trees, and in the woods. And they go with a
great pot made of wood or fine earth, and couered, tied with a broad girdle
vpon their shoulder, which cometh vnder their arme, wherewith they go to
begge their victuals which they eate, which is rice, fish, and herbs. They
demand nothing but come to the doore, and the people presently doe giue
them, some one thing, and some another: and they put all together in their
potte: for they say they must eate of their almes, and therewith content
themselues. [Sidenote: Obseruation of new moones.] They keepe their feasts
by the Moone: and when it is new Moone they keepe their greatest feast: and
then the people send rice and other things to that kiack or church of which
they be; and there all the Tallipoies doe meete which be of that Church,
and eate the victuals which are sent them. When the Tallipoies do preach,
many of the people cary them gifts into the pulpit where they sit and
preach. And there is one which sitteth by them to take that which the
people bring. It is diuided among them. They haue none other ceremonies nor
seruice that I could see, but onely preaching.
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