worlde, as she dyd in this, & if she haue children she may liue with them and[16] she will; and if the wyfe dye before, she shall be burnt, & hir husbande also, if he will. In this countrey groweth good wine, & women drink wine & men none, and women shaue theyr berds & not men. [Illustration] [Footnote 1: _Pynson_ says 20 years.] [Footnote 2: Slow motion.] [Footnote 3: An early hour before noon. A Latin edition has it:--"_A diei hora tertia, usq: ad nonam_."] [Footnote 4: Loadstone rocks.] [Footnote 5: Images.] [Footnote 6: Other editions have "a gret difference," which the context shows should be the right reading.] [Footnote 7: Similar to Him that made, &c.] [Footnote 8: They were helped by God in the marvels, &c.] [Footnote 9: Nourish.] [Footnote 10: Speed, _i.e._ have good luck.] [Footnote 11: Other editions say 18.] [Footnote 12: Quilon, on the Malabar Coast.] [Footnote 13: Archi proto papaton.] [Footnote 14: Remnant.] [Footnote 15: Wicked spirit.] [Footnote 16: An, if.] CAP. LIIII. _Of the Kingedome of Mabaron._ [Illustration] FROM this lande men go many journeys to a countrey that men call Mabaron,[1] and this is a greate Kingdome, therein is many fayre cities & townes. In this lande lyeth Sainct Thomas in a fayre tombe, in fleshe and bones, in the Citie of Calamy, and the arme and hande that hee put in our Lordes syde after his resurrection, when Christ sayde unto hym, _Noli esse incredulus sed fidelis:_, that is to saye, Be not of vaine hope but beleve; that same hande lyeth yet without the tombe bare, and with this hande they giue theyr domes[2] in that countrey, to mete[3] who saith righte, and who doeth not, for, if any stryfe be betwene two parties, they write their names, & put them into the hand, & then incontinently the hande casteth away the byll[4] of him that hath wronge and holdeth the other still that hathe righte, and therefore they come from farre countreys to have Judgementes of causes that are in doubte. In this church of Saint Thomas is a great image, y^t is a simulacre, & it is richly beset with precious stons & perles, to that image men come in pilgrimage from farre countreys, with great devocion, as Christen men go to Saint James, & there come some pilgrims y^t beare sharp knives in theyr handes, & as they go by the waye they shere[5] theyr shankes & thyghes, that the bloude may come out for the love of that ydoll and they saye that he is holy that will dye for that ydols sake. And there is some that for the time that they go out of their houses at eche third pace they knele till that they come to this idole. And when they come there they have ensence[6] or such other thing for to ensence the ydole, as we would do to Gods body. And there before that mynster or church of this ydol, is a river full of water, & in that river pilgrims cast gold, silver, perles