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be pitched, and first of al they take down their owne 

 [I. 116.] houses: & after them the whole court doth the like. 

 Also upon their festival daies or kalends they take forth 

 the foresayd images, and place them in order round, or 

 circle wise within the house. Then come the Moals or 

 Tartars, and enter into the same house, bowing themselves 

 before the said images and worship them. Moreover, it 

 is not lawfuU for any stranger to enter into that house. 

 For upon a certaine time I my selfe would have gone in, 

 but I was chidden full well for my labour. 



Of divers and sundry nations : and of certaine 

 people which were wont to eate their owne 

 parents. Chap. 28. 



'Ut the foresayd Jugures (who live among the 

 Christians, and the Saracens) by their sundry dis- 

 putations, as I suppose, have bene brought unto this, to 

 beleeve, that there is but one onely God. And they 

 dwelt in certaine cities, which afterward were brought in 

 subjection unto Chingis Can : whereupon he gave his 

 daughter in mariage unto their king. Also the citie of 

 Caracarum it selfe is in a manner within their territory : 



The countrey and the whole countrey of king or Presbyter John, & of 



ofPresbite?- j^jg brother Vut lyeth neere unto their dominions : saving, 

 that they inhabite in certaine pastures Northward, and the 

 sayde Jugures betweene the mountaines towardes the 

 South. Whereupon it came to passe, that the Moals 

 received letters from them. And they are the Tartars 

 principall scribes : & al the Nestorians almost can skill of 

 their letters. Next unto them, between the foresaid 



Tangut. mountaines Eastward, inhabiteth the nation of Tangut, 



who are a most valiant people, and tooke Chingis in 

 battell. But after the conclusion of a league hee was set 

 at libertie by them, and afterward subdued them. These 



Strange oxen, people of Tangut have oxen of great strength, with tailes 

 like unto horses, and with long shagge haire upon their 

 backes and bellyes. They have legges greater then other 

 oxen have, and they are exceedingly fierce. These oxen 



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