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miter is not so hollow within as the hinder part : neither 

 is it sharpe pointed or cornered at the toppe : but there 

 hang downe certaine square flappes compacted of a kinde 

 of strawe which is made rough and rugged with extreme 

 heat, and is so trimmed, that it glittereth in the sunne 

 beames, like unto a glasse, or an helmet well burnished. 

 And about their temples they have long bands of the 

 foresayd matter fastened unto their miters, which hover in 

 the wind, as if two long homes grewe out of their heads. 

 And when the winde tosseth them up and downe too 

 much, they tie them over the midst of their miter from 

 one temple to another : and so they lie circle wise over- 

 thwart their heads. Moreover their principal messenger 

 Atabkofele- comming unto the Tartars court had a table of elephants 

 phants tooth. ^QQ^j^ about him of a cubite in length, and a handfull in 

 breadth, being very smoothe. And whensoever hee spake 

 unto the Emperor himselfe, or unto any other great \ 

 personage, hee alwayes beheld that table, as if hee had j 

 found therein those things which hee spake : neither did 

 he cast his eyes to the right hand, nor to the lefte, nor \ 

 upon his face, with whom he talked. Yea, going too and I 

 fro before his lord, he looketh no where but only upon 1 

 The people ^^^ table. Beyond them (as I understand of a certainty) I 

 called Muc. there are other people called Muc, having villages, but no : 

 [I. 117.] one particular man of them appropriating any cattell unto ,i 

 himselfe. Notwithstanding there are many flockes and 

 droves of cattell in their countrey, & no man appointed to 

 keepe them. But when any one of them standeth in 

 neede of any beast, hee ascendeth up unto an hill, and 

 there maketh a shout, and all the cattell which are within ! 

 hearing of the noyse, come flocking about him, and suffer ' 

 themselves to be handled and taken, as if they were tame, i 

 And when any messenger or stranger commeth into their j 

 countrie, they shut him up into an house, ministring there i 

 things necessary unto him, untill his businesse be dis- \ 

 patched. For if anie stranger should travell through that I 

 countrie, the cattell would flee away at the very sent of ( 

 him, and so would become wilde. Beyond Muc is great 



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