CAP. LXIII.
Reading edition
Of the Kingedome named Mancy which is the best kingedome of the worlde.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · : Or Manzi, that part of China south of the river Hoang-ho.Note 2 · : Pynson has "berdes thynne of here, as it were cattes."Note 3 · : Larger.Note 4 · : Pynson here has, "and there is plenty of great neddres (adders) of whyche they make a greate fest and ete theym at great solemnytees. For,Note 5 · : Wool.Note 6 · : Hangchow-fu.Note 7 · : Pynson says, "There is in yt citie mo than VII thousand gates and each of III gate is a good toure where the kepers dwell," &c.Note 8 · : Borders.Note 9 · : Baboons.Note 10 · : Convent.Note 11 · : What is left over.Note 12 · : Pynson says III Thousand or IIII Thousand.Note 13 · : Off.Note 14 · : Seat or settlement.Note 15 · TO go from this yle toward the east many journies a man shall finde a kingdome that is called Mancy1 & this is in Inde the more, & it is ye Note 16 · : Pigmies, dwarfs. Homer, in the third book of the Iliad, has immortalized the Pigmies and their battles with the Cranes. (See Appendix for Note 17 · : Other editions say six or seven years.Note 18 · Of the lande of Pygmen,1 wherein dwell but smal people of three spanne long.Note 19 · WHEN men passe from that citie of Chibens, they passe over a great river of freshe water, and it is nere IIII mile brode & then men enter in