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in another yle dwell men that have no heads, & theyr 

 eyen are in theyr shoulders & theyr mouth is on theyr 

 breste. In another yle are men that have no head ne 

 eyen, and their mouth is in theyr shoulders. And in 

 another yle are men that have flatte faces, without nose, 

 and without eyen, but they have two small round holes 

 in stede of eyen, and they have a flatte mouth without 

 lippes. And in that yle are men that have their faces 

 all flat without eyen, without mouth & without nose, 

 but they have their eyen, and their mouth, behinde on 

 their shoulders. 



" And in another yle are foule men that have the 

 lippes about the mouth so greate, that when they sleepe 

 in the sonne they cover theyr face with the lippe. And 

 in another yle are little men, as dwarfes, and have no 

 mouth, but a lyttle rounde hole & through that hole 

 they eate their meate with a pipe, & they have no 

 tongue, & they speake not, but they blow & whistle, 

 and so make signes one to another. And in another yle 

 are wild men with hanging eares unto their shoulders. 

 And in another yle are wild men, with hanging eares 

 & have feete lyke an hors & they run faste, & they 

 take wild beastes, and eate them. And in another yle 

 are men that go on theyr handes & feete lyke beasts 

 & are all rough, and will leape upon a tree like cattes 

 or apes. And in another yle are men that go ever 

 uppon theyr knees marvaylosly, and have on every 

 foote viii Toes. . . . 



"There is another yle that men call Pitan, men of 

 this lande till no lande, for they eate nought, and they 

 are smal, but not so smal as Pigmes. These men live 

 with smell of wild aples, & when they go far out of the 

 countrey, they beare apples with them, for anon, as 



