The voiage and travayle of Sir John Maundeville kt. : which treateth of the way toward Hierusalem and of marvayles of Inde with other islands and countreyes / Reprinted from the edition of A.D. 1725 ; with an introduction, additional notes, and glossary, by J.O. Halliwell.
- John Mandeville
- Date:
- 1883
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The voiage and travayle of Sir John Maundeville kt. : which treateth of the way toward Hierusalem and of marvayles of Inde with other islands and countreyes / Reprinted from the edition of A.D. 1725 ; with an introduction, additional notes, and glossary, by J.O. Halliwell. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![so with Almesse; als manye, as thei may fynde. And I asked hem, zif it had not ben better, to have zoven that releef to pore men, rathere than to the Bestes. And thei answerde me and seyde, that thei hadde no pore men amonges hem, in that Contree: and thoughe it had ben so, that pore men had ben among hem, zit were it gretter Almesse, to zeven it to tho Soules, that don there here Penance. Many other Marveylles ben in that Cytee and in the Contree there aboute, that were to long to telle zou. Fro that Cytee, go men be the Contree a 6 iourneyes, to another Cytee, that men clepen Chilenfo: ° of the whiche Cytee, the Walles ben 20 Myle aboute. In that Cytee ben 60 Brigges of Ston, so faire, that no man may see fairere. In that Cytee was the firste Sege of the Kyng of Mancy: for it is a fair Cytee, and plenteevous of alle Codes. Aftre passe men overthwart a gret Ryvere, that men clepen Dalay: and that is the grettest Ryvere of Fressche Water, that is in the World. For there, as it is most narow, it is more than 4 Myle of brede. And thanne entren men azen in to the Lond of the grete Chane. That Ryvere gothe thorghe the Lond of Pigmaus : where that the folk ben of litylle Stature, that ben but 3 Span long F and thei ben right faire and gentylle, aftre ° Cheloso, L. I ; Chesolo, L. 2; Tylenso, L. 3, 4; Chybens, E. I, 2, 3, 4. ^ Plin. vii. 2 : Supra hos, [circa Fontem Gangis] extrema in parte Montium, Spithamsei Pygmsei narrantur, ternas Spithamas longitudine, hoc est, ternos dodrantes non excedentes—Quos a Gruibus infestari Homerus quoque prodidit. Fama est insi- P 2](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b2935142x_0247.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
