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Some people say that they are fish, and others
say that they are birds who fly on the sea. But take
it as you wish, for now I will move on from
speaking more on this matter, in order to tell
you about the marvelous trees that grow in India.
There are many different kinds bearing various
fruits, as will be told to you at some length below.
[rubric:] This speaks of the trees that there in in India. [/rubric]
In India there grows a very large and beautiful tree that
is called the palm. It bears dates, a very good and
marvelously healthy fruit. There are also apple trees
that are so full of large apples having the most wonderful
smell possible, and they cluster together, a hundred
in a bunch. And the leaves that grow on these apple
trees are two feet long and a foot wide. Other apples
grow to great size and weight, and they appear to have been
bitten into by a man with all his teeth. They are called apples