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Eart of the montayne he was so wery that he might go no f urthere ; and so 

 e rested him and felie o slepe ; and whan he awook ne founde him self lig- 

 gynge at the foot of the montayne. And than he preyede devoutlye to God 

 that he wolde vouche safe to sufFre him gon up. And an Angelle cam to him 

 and seyde that he scholde gon up, and so he dide. And sithe that tyme ne- 

 vere non ; wherfore men scholde not beleeve suche woordes."* 



With his chorography of the " Londe of Job" and the " Yle of A- 

 mazoyne," our communicative wanderer furnishes his readers with a 

 note on Manna, and a disquisition on the verray Dyamant, its know- 

 leche and vertues. He eulogizes the Lond of Job as a fulle fair con- 

 tree and a plentyous of alle godes. In that Lond, he says, " there 

 ys no defaute of no thing that is nedefulle to mannes body. There 

 ben hilles where men geten gret plentee of Manna, in gretter habun- 

 dance than in ony other contree. This Manna is clept Bred of Aun- 

 geles, and it is a white thing that is full swete and righte delicyous, 

 and more swete than bony or sugre ; and it comethe of the dew of 

 heaven that fallethe upon the herbes in that countree, and it conge- 

 lethe and becomethe all white and swete ; and thei putten it in Medi- 

 cynes for riche men to purge evylle blode, for it puttethe out malen- 

 colye." With his '' loose notes" on Ethiopia, he introduces Pliny's 

 fable of the Monoscelli or sciopods, " the whiche ben folk that ban 

 but o foot, and thei gon so fast that it is marvaylle ; and the foot is 



improved version of this legendary adventure has a place in Char- 

 ^veU— Voyages en Perse et autres lieux de VOnenti ito, four volumes, 



* Ani...^ .„„ 



din's Travels — Voyages 

 Amsterdam, 1735 



