Mummie is become Merchandise, Mizraim cures wounds, and Pharaoh is sold for Balsoms.

The Momia, which is some five or six miles beyound, ar thowsands of imbalmed bodies, which weare buried thousands of years past in a sandie cave, at which ther seemeth to have bine citie in tim[e]s past. We were lett doune by ropes as into a well, with wax candles burninge in our hands, and so waulked uppon the bodies of all sorts and sised [read sizes], great and smaule, and some imbalmed in little earthen potts, which never had forme; thes ar sett at the feet of the great bodies. They gave no noysome smell at all, but ar like pitch, beinge broken; for I broke of[f] all parts of the bodies to see howe the flesh was turned to drugge, and brought home divers heads, hands, arms, and feet for a shewe. We bought allso 600 lb. for the Turkie company in peces, and brought into Ingland in the Hercules, together with a whole bodie. They ar lapped in 100 doble of cloth, which rotton [rotting?] and pillinge of[f], you may see the skinne, flesh, fingers, and nayles firme, onelie altered blacke. One little hand I brought into Ingland to shewe, and presented it my brother, who gave the same to a doctor in Oxford.