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gles. Il ya ancores plente daultres lieux tant
delitables et tant doubs et si espirituelz que se
ung homme estoit dedens il diroit que che seroit
ung droit paradis. Des diversitez estans en la
IL ya en la terre dinde une tresgrande mon terre dinde
taigne que len appelle mont capien. Et est une
moult grande region. Illec sont une maniere de
gens sans sens et sans discretion que le Roy a
lexandre encloist la dedens. et sont nommez goz
et magoz. ilz menguent la char toute crue soit dhom
mes de femmes ou de bestes comme gens fourse
nez ou demoniacles. Ceste ynde dont je vous ra
compte contient . xiiii . regions Et en chascune di
celles regions a moult de gens et se ya de si grantes
boiz et tant haults que ilz adviennent jusques
aux nues. Et la se treuvent gens qui sont cornuz
et nont que deux coutees de hault. Et sen vont en
semble par grans compaignies. puis se comba
tent souventeffoiz contre les grues qui les assai
lent. mais en dedens sept ans deviennent anciens
si quilz meurent pas vielle. Celle gens sont ap

claws. And there are many other lands
that are just as delightful, sweet, and spiritual, so
that if a man were there he would say that they
were rightly Paradise. [rubric:] About the diversity of things
in the land of India. [/rubric]
In India there is a very big mountain that is called Mount Capien.
This is a very large region. There is there a type of
people without sense or good judgment whom King Alexander
confined to that place, and they are called Gog and
Magog. They eat raw flesh, whether of men or women
or beasts, as people do who are insane or possessed by
demons. This India that I am telling you about has
fourteen regions, each of which has many people
and trees that are so high that they reach the clouds.
There may be found horned people who are only
about three feet high. They go about
in large groups, and they often fight
against the cranes that attack them.
But within seven years they become old
so that they die young. These people are called

gles. Il ya ancores plente daultres lieux tant
delitables et tant doubs et si espirituelz que se
ung homme estoit dedens il diroit que che seroit
ung droit paradis. Des diversitez estans en la
IL ya en la terre dinde une tresgrande mon terre dinde
taigne que len appelle mont capien. Et est une
moult grande region. Illec sont une maniere de
gens sans sens et sans discretion que le Roy a
lexandre encloist la dedens. et sont nommez goz
et magoz. ilz menguent la char toute crue soit dhom
mes de femmes ou de bestes comme gens fourse
nez ou demoniacles. Ceste ynde dont je vous ra
compte contient . xiiii . regions Et en chascune di
celles regions a moult de gens et se ya de si grantes
boiz et tant haults que ilz adviennent jusques
aux nues. Et la se treuvent gens qui sont cornuz
et nont que deux coutees de hault. Et sen vont en
semble par grans compaignies. puis se comba
tent souventeffoiz contre les grues qui les assai
lent. mais en dedens sept ans deviennent anciens
si quilz meurent pas vielle. Celle gens sont ap

claws. And there are many other lands
that are just as delightful, sweet, and spiritual, so
that if a man were there he would say that they
were rightly Paradise. [rubric:] About the diversity of things
in the land of India. [/rubric]
In India there is a very big mountain that is called Mount Capien.
This is a very large region. There is there a type of
people without sense or good judgment whom King Alexander
confined to that place, and they are called Gog and
Magog. They eat raw flesh, whether of men or women
or beasts, as people do who are insane or possessed by
demons. This India that I am telling you about has
fourteen regions, each of which has many people
and trees that are so high that they reach the clouds.
There may be found horned people who are only
about three feet high. They go about
in large groups, and they often fight
against the cranes that attack them.
But within seven years they become old
and they do not live long. These people are called