And amongst them oil of olive is full dear, for they hold it for
full noble medicine. And all the Tartars have small eyen and
little of beard, and not thick haired but shear. And they be false
and traitors; and they last nought that they behote. They be full
hardy folk, and much pain and woe may suffer and disease, more than
any other folk, for they be taught thereto in their own country of
youth. And therefore they spend as who saith, right nought.
And when any man shall die, men set a spear beside him. And when
he draweth towards the death, every man fleeth out of the house
till he be dead. And after that they bury him in the fields.
And when the emperor dieth, men set him in a chair in midst the
place of his tent. And men set a table before him clean, covered
with a cloth, and thereupon flesh and diverse viands and a cup full
of mare's milk. And men put a mare beside him with her foal, and
an horse saddled and bridled. And they lay upon the horse gold and
silver, great quantity. And they put about him great plenty of
straw. And then men make a great pit and a large, and with the
tent and all these other things they put him in earth.
