CAP. XCIX.
Reading edition
Of the wildernesse wherein groweth the trees of the sonne & the Moone.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · : Kinds or sorts.Note 2 · : ? Aleppo.Note 3 · : Other editions read land.Note 4 · : Since then.Note 5 · AND beyond that river is a great wildernesse as men that haue ben there say. In this Wildernesse as men saye are the trees of the Sonne and Note 6 · : There seems a difference of opinion whether this island is Ceylon or Sumatra.Note 7 · : Fruitful.Note 8 · 1: There seems a difference of opinion whether this island is Ceylon or Sumatra. 2: Fruitful. 3: Reap.Note 9 · Of a great yland and kingedome called Taprobane.1Note 10 · TOWARDE the East side of Prester John's lande is an yle that men call Taprobane, & is right good and fructuous,2 and there is a great Kyng a