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further by the ocean-sea towards the south, & passed 

 through many countries and islands, wherof one is 



Moumoran, called Moumoran, & it containeth in compasse ii. M. 

 miles, wherin men & women have dogs faces, and 

 worship an oxe for their god : and therefore every one 

 of them cary the image of an oxe of gold or silver upon 

 their foreheads. The men and the women of this 

 country go all naked, saving that they hang a linen cloth 

 before their privities. The men of the said country 

 are very tall and mighty, and by reason that they goe 

 naked, when they are to make battell, they cary yron 

 or steele-targets before them, which do cover and defend 

 their bodies from top to toe : and whomsoever of their 

 foes they take in battel not being able to ransom him- 

 selfe for money, they presently devoure him : but if 

 he be able to redeeme himselfe for money, they let him 

 go free. Their king weareth about his necke 300. great 

 and most beautifull unions, and saith every day 300. 

 prayers unto his god. He weareth upon his finger also 

 a stone of a span long, which seemeth to be a flame 

 of fire, and therefore when he weareth it, no man dare 

 once approch unto him : and they say that there is not 

 any stone in the whole world of more value then it. 

 Neither could at any time the great Tartarian Emperour 

 of Katay either by force, money, or policie obtaine it 

 at his hands : notwithstanding that he hath done the 

 utmost of his indevour for this purpose. 



Of the island of Sylan : and of the mountaine 

 where Adam mourned for his sonne Abel. 



Passed also by another island called Sylan, which 

 conteineth in compasse above ii. M. miles : wherin 

 are an infinit number of serpents, & great store of 

 lions, beares, & al kinds of ravening & wild beasts, and 

 especially of elephants. In the said country there is an 

 huge mountaine, whereupon the inhabitants of that 

 region do report that Adam mourned for his son Abel 

 ye space of 500. yeres. In the midst of this mountain 



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