And Therefore, They That Know The Manner, And Shall Fight
With Them, They Shoot To Them Arrows And Quarrels Without Iron Or
Steel, And So They Hurt Them And Slay Them.
And also of those
canes they make houses and ships and other things, as we have here,
making houses and ships of oak or of any other trees.
And deem no
man that I say it but for a trifle, for I have seen of the canes
with mine own eyes, full many times, lying upon the river of that
lake, of the which twenty of our fellows ne might not lift up ne
bear one to the earth.
After this isle men go by sea to another isle that is clept
Calonak. And it is a fair land and a plenteous of goods. And the
king of that country hath as many wives as he will. For he maketh
search all the country to get him the fairest maidens that may be
found, and maketh them to be brought before him. And he taketh one
one night, and another another night, and so forth continually
suing; so that he hath a thousand wives or more. And he lieth
never but one night with one of them, and another night with
another; but if that one happen to be more lusty to his pleasance
than another. And therefore the king getteth full many children,
some-time an hundred, some-time a two-hundred, and some-time more.
And he hath also into a 14,000 elephants or more that he maketh for
to be brought up amongst his villains by all his towns.
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