The Voiage and Travayle of Sir John Maundeville Knight

CAP. LIII.

Reading edition

Of diverse countreys & Kingdomes & yles of the lande of Inde.

In this lande men and women lye all naked in the ryvers and waters,...

and the women be not ashamed for the men

for some ymage hath an head lyke an Oxe

In this yle of Cana is many wilde bestes

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · : Pynson says 20 years.Note 2 · : Slow motion.Note 3 · : An early hour before noon. A Latin edition has it:—"A diei hora tertia, usq: ad nonam."Note 4 · : Loadstone rocks.Note 5 · : Images.Note 6 · : Other editions have "a gret difference," which the context shows should be the right reading.Note 7 · : Similar to Him that made, &c.Note 8 · : They were helped by God in the marvels, &c.Note 9 · : Nourish.Note 10 · : Speed, i.e. have good luck.Note 11 · : Other editions say 18.Note 12 · : Quilon, on the Malabar Coast.Note 13 · : Archi proto papaton.Note 14 · : Remnant.Note 15 · : Wicked spirit.Note 16 · : An, if.Note 17 · MANY diverse countreys & Kingdoms are in Inde, and it is called Inde of a river that runneth through it, which is called Inde also & there a Note 18 · In this lande men and women lye all naked in the ryvers and waters, from undren3 or heate of the day tyll it be past none, and they ly all i

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