ABSTRACT
THUS following the seacoast and leaving the Kingdom of Berma there is to the south another Heathen Realm of great fertility and with much trade by sea in many kinds of goods. They call it Peeguu 1; it possesses three or four havens where there are rich merchants and great towns inhabited as well by Moors as by the Heathen who possess it. The city of Peeguu is situate inland seven or eight leagues from the sea on a small river which is a branch of another river, very great, which flows through this Kingdom coming down from certain mountains. During some months of the year it brings down so much water that it overflows its natural course and inundates widespread lands on which grows and is harvested great store of rice with which the city is right well supplied, as well as with- flesh and other foods which are laden at its ports. There are in that place great ships of three or four masts, which they call Juncos, 2 which sail to Malaca [and Samatra] and many other places. They carry from this Kingdom of Peeguu great store of white cane sugar in loaves.3 Hither come every year many Moorish ships to trade and bring abundance of printed Cambaya [and Paleacate] cloths, both cotton and silk, which they call patolas.4
