And Of
His Son Chuse Was Engendered Nimrod The Giant, That Was The First
King That Ever Was In The World; And He Began The Foundation Of The
Tower Of Babylon.
And that time, the fiends of hell came many
times and lay with the women of his generation and
Engendered on
them diverse folk, as monsters and folk disfigured, some without
heads, some with great ears, some with one eye, some giants, some
with horses' feet, and many other diverse shape against kind. And
of that generation of Cham be come the Paynims and divers folk that
be in isles of the sea by all Ind. And forasmuch as he was the
most mighty, and no man might withstand him, he cleped himself the
Son of God and sovereign of all the world. And for this Cham, this
emperor clepeth him Cham, and sovereign of all the world.
And of the generation of Shem be come the Saracens. And of the
generation of Japhet is come the people of Israel. And though that
we dwell in Europe, this is the opinion, that the Syrians and the
Samaritans have amongst them. And that they told me, before that I
went toward Ind, but I found it otherwise. Natheles, the sooth is
this; that Tartars and they that dwell in the great Asia, they came
of Cham; but the Emperor of Cathay clepeth him not Cham, but Can,
and I shall tell you how.
It is but little more but eight score year that all Tartary was in
subjection and in servage to other nations about.
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