Note 1: — CAP: I.

First, if a man come from the west side of the worlde as England, Ireland, Wales, Scotland and Norway, he may if he wyl, go through Almayne1 and throughout the Kingdome of Hungary, which Kinge is a great lord and a mightie, and holdeth many landes & great, for he holdeth the land of Hungarie, Savoy,2 Camonie,3 a great part of Bulgary, that men call the land of Bugres, and a great part of the Kingdome of Rossie,4 and that lasteth to the land of Mifland,5 and marcheth on Siprus,5 and men passe thus through the land of Hungary and through the Citie that men call Cipanum,6 and through the castell of Nuburgh,7 and by the yll Torwe,8 towarde the ende of Hungarie and so by the river of Danubie, that is a full great ryver and goeth into Almayne, under the hilles of Lumbardy, and it taketh into him 40 other ryvers and it runneth throughout Hungary and through Cresses9 and Crochie,9 and goeth into the sea so strongely and with so great might that the water is freshe xxx10 myle within the sea and afterwards go men to Belgrave11 and entereth the lande of Bugres and there pass men a bridge of stone that is over the river Marrock,12 and so men passe through the lande of Pinseras13 and come to Grece to the citie of Stermis,14 and to the citie of Affinpane,15 that was sometime called Bradre16 the noble and so to the citie of Constantinople that was sometime called Bessameron17 and there dwelleth commonly the Emperor of Grece.