"lamahey is a very faire and great towne, with faire houses of stone, well peopled, the streets are very large, the men very well set and strong, with a cloth about them, bare headed and bare footed: for in all these countreys they weare no shooes. The women be much fairer then those of Pegu. Heere in all these countreys they haue no wheat. They make some cakes of rice. Hither to Iamahey Many merchants out of China, and bring great store of muske, golde, siluer, and many other things of China worke. Here is great store of victuals: they haue such plenty that they will not milke the buffles, as they doe in all other places." --Ralph Fitch[3]
↑John Horton Ryley ed. and comment. (1899) Ralph Fitch: England's pioneer to India and Burma: his companions and contemporaries, with his remarkable narrative told in his own words. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 171.