CAP. LXXIX.
Reading edition
What countreys and kingdomes lye next to the land of Cathay and the frontes thereof.
"At Sarra in the Londe of Tartarie There dwelt a King that werriëd Russie."
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · : Lower Asia.Note 2 · : Others write it Tharse.Note 3 · : ? Khorassan.Note 4 · : A misprint for flies.Note 5 · : The usual fuel in an unwooded Asiatic country.Note 6 · : Volga.Note 7 · : Others say 200,000.Note 8 · : The Black Sea.Note 9 · : The Caspian Sea.Note 10 · : Port de Fer, or Iron Gate. Other editions have it "Gate of Hell."Note 11 · : Sarai, or Sara, on the Volga. Chaucer, in "Cambuscan," speaks of it thus:—Note 12 · : The Pass of Derbend, still called in Turkish Demir Kapi, or the Iron Gate.Note 13 · : Turkestan.Note 14 · : Variously written Abcaz or Abkhas.Note 15 · THIS lande of Cathay is in Asia the depe,1 and this same lande marcheth toward the west upon the kingdome of Sercy,2 the which was sometyme