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A51759	The voyages & travels of Sir John Mandevile, Knight wherein is set down the way to the Holy Land, and to Hierusalem, as also to the lands of the great Caan, and of Prestor John, to Inde, and divers other countries : together with many strange marvels therein.	Mandeville, John, Sir.; Jean, d'Outremeuse, 1338-ca. 1399.	1677 (1677)	Wing M415; ESTC R21151	84,811	129

Duke nor Earl ANd from this place men go ten dayes journy through the land of the great Caane which is a very good Isle and a great Kingdom and the King is very mighty And in this Isle is a rich man which is neither King Prince Duke nor Earl but he hath each year four thousand Horses charged with Rice and Corn and he liveth Nobly and richly after the manner of the country for he hath fifty Damesels that serve him every day at his meat and bed and do what he will And when he sitteth at the Table they bring him meat and at each time five Messes together and they sing in the bringing in a Song and they cut his meat and put it into his mouth and he hath very long Nails on his hands for that is great Nobility in that country and therefore they let their Nails grow as long as they may and some let them grow so long that they come about their hands and that is great Honour and gentry and the gentry of a woman is to have small feet and therefore so soon as they are born they bind their feet so straight that they cannot wax half as they should And he hath a very fair Palace and rich where he dwelleth of which the Wall is two mile about and therein is many fair Gardens and all the Pavements of the Hall and Chambers is of Gold and Silver and in the midest of one of his Gardens is a little Hill whereon is a place made with Towers and Pinacles all of Gold and there he will sit often to take the air and disport for it is made for nothing else From this Land men may go to the Land of Caane CHAP. CVII How all the Lands Isles and Kingdoms before rehearsed have some Articles of our Faith ANd ye shall understand that all these men and folk that have reason that I have spoken of have some Articles of our Faith and though they be of divers Laws and Beliefs yet they have some good points of our Faith and they believe in God as the Prophesie saith Et meruent eum omnes fines terrae that is to say And all the Ends of the Earth shall fear him And in another place Omnes gentes servient ei That is to say all Nations shall serve him But they cannot speak perfectly but as their natural wit teacheth them netther of the Son nor of the holy Ghost but they can well speak of the Bible and especially of Genesis and the Books of Moses And they say that those Creatures which they worship are no Gods but they worship them for the great vertue that is in them which may not be without the special grace of God and of Simulacres and Idols they say that all men have Simulacres whereby they mean the papists who have Images of our Lady and others but they think that they worship the Images of Stone and of Wood and not the Saints whom they do represent for as the Letter teacheth Clerks how they shall believe so Images and Pictures teach Lay-men they say also that the Angel of God speaketh to them in their Idols and doth Miracles and they say thus but it is the evil Angel that doth Miracles to maintain them in their Idolatry CHAP. CVIII How Sir John Mandevile leaveth many marvels unwritten and the causes wherefore THere are many other countries where I have not yet been nor seen and therefore I cannot speak properly of them Also in countries where I have been are many marvels that I speak not of for it were to long a Tale and therefore hold you apaid at this time with that I have said for I will say no more of marvels that are there so that other men that go thither may find enough for to say that I have not told CHAP. CIX What time Sir John Mandevile departed out of Engeland ANd I John Mandevile Knight was born in England in the Town of Saint Albans went out of my Country and passed the sea in the year of our Lord 1332 on St. Michaels day and have passed through many lands Isles and Countries and now come to rest I have compiled this Book and write it the year of our Lord 1364 thirty two years after my departing from my Country The rather for the pleasure of all such as delight to read the strange and wonderful marvels of other forraign countries as also for a direction to all such as shall desire to see either all or some of these countries herein specified and because some things herein spoken of may seem strange and scarcely credible therefore I have thought good to make known unto all that will see more proof hereof in the Book called Mappa mundi there they shall find the most part of the same ratified and confirmed And I pray all that shall read this Book and look for no further proof to judge favourable thereof since they shall in conceipt see as much at home without much paine as I did after many weary and dangerous steps passed and I pray to God of whom all grace cometh that he will fullfil with his grace the Readers and Hearers hereof and save them body and soul and bring them to his Ioy that ever shall last Amen FINIS THE TABLE THe way toward to Hierusalem on Horse on Foot or by Sea Chap. 1. Of the Land of Greece Chap. 2. To come again to Constantinople to go to the holy Land Ch. 3. Of a terrible D●agon Chap. 4. Of a young Man and his Lemman Chap. 5. Of the manner of hunting in Cypres Chap. 6. Of the Haven named Jaffe Chap. 7. Of the Haven Tyre Chap. 8. Of the Hill of Carme Chap. 9. How Sampson slew the King and his Enemies Chap. 10. The way to Babylon where the Souldan dwelleth Chap. 11. Yet here followeth of the Souldan and Kingdoms that he hath conquered which he holdeth strongly by force Chap. 12. For to return from Sinay to Hierusalem Chap. 13. As men are passed the Wilderness again coming to Hierusalem Chap. 14. Here followeth a little of Adam and Eve and other things Chap. 15. Of the dry Tree Chap. 16. From Ebron to Bethlem Chap. 17. Of a fair Maiden that should be put to death wrongfully Chap. 18. Of the City of Jerusalem Chap. 19. Yet of the holy City of Jerusalem Chap. 20. Of the Church and of the old Sepulchre Chap. 21. Of the Temple of God Chap. 22. Yet of the Temple of God Chap. 23. Of King Herod Chap. 24. Of Saint Salvator● Church Chap. 25. The Field of Acheldemack which was bought with the thirty pence Chap. 26. Of the Mount Jov. Chap. 27. Of the Castle of Bethania Chap. 28. Of Jericho and of other things Chap. 29. Of the holy place between Bethania and the River Jordan with other things Chap. 30. Of Abraham and his Generation Chap. 31. Of the River Jordan Chap. 32. Of many other marvels Chap. 33. Of the Samaritans Chap. 34. Of Galile Chap. 35. Of

the River of Jordan and on the right side men go through the Land of Flagme and so to the City Caiaphas in which City Caiphas was Lord and some call it the Castle Pellerius and from thence is four days iourney to Hierusalem and they go through Cesary Philippi Jaffe Ramas and Emaus and so to Hierusalem CHAP. XLIII Yet another way by Land toward the Land of Promise NOw have I told you some ways by land and by water how men may go to Hierusalem And there be many other ways that men go by after the Countries that they come from nevertheless they come all to one end Yet is there a way all by Land to Hierusalem and pass no Sea but to France or Flanders but that way is very long and perilous and of great travel wherefore few go that way but he that will go that way must go by Almaine and Pruse and so to Tartary This Tartary is holden by the great Caane of whom I shall speak afterward for thither reacheth his Lordship and all the Lords of Tartary yield to him Tribute Tartary is a barren Country and very sandy for there groweth little either Corn or other Fruit but there is a great plenty of Beasts and therefore they eat flesh without bread and they sup the broth and they drink the milk of all manner of Beasts And because they have great scarcity of Wood they dry the dung of Horses and of other Beasts and burn it for to dress their meat by Princes and other Lords eat but once in the day and that is very little and they be foul folk and of ill liking In Summer there are many great Tempests and Thunders that slay many men and beasts sometime on the sudden it is very cold and again on the sudden it is very hot The Prince of the Land they call Roco and he dwelleth at a City that is called Orda but very few Strangers do desire to dwell in that Land for it is good to sow Thorns and Weeds in but other good there is none as I heard say for I was not that way but I have been in other Countries marching thereon as in the Land of Russia and Nisland and the Kingdom of Grecon and Lectow and the Kingdom Grasten and in many other places but I never went that way to Hierusalem and therefore I cannot well tell it for I have understood that men may not well go that way but in Winter when the waters and mires that be in that Land be frozen and covered with Snow so that men may pass thereon for were not that Snow there might no man go in that Land but he were loss And ye shall understand that a man must go three days iourney from Pruse to pass this way before he can come to the Land of Sarasins And if by chance any Christians pass that way as once a year they do they carry their victuals with them for they should find nothing there but a manner of food that they call Syles and they carry their Victuals upon the Ice on Steds and Chariots without Wheeles and as long as their Victuals last they may dwell there but no longer And when the Spies of the Countries see Christians come they run to the Towns and Castles and cry aloud Kara Kara Kara and as soon as they have cryed then do the people arm them And ye shall understand that the Ice there is harder then it is here and every man hath a Stove in his House and therein they eat and do all things that them needeth and that is at the North part of the World where it is commonly cold for the Sun appeareth not nor shineth but little in that Countrey and that Land is in some places so cold that there may no man dwell therein and on the South side of the World it is in some places so hot that there can no man dwell the Sun giveth so great heat in those Countries CHAP. XLIV Of the Faith of the Sarasins and of the Book of their Law named Alkaron FOrasmuch as I have told you of the Sarasins and of otherLands I purpose to set down a part of their Law and of their Belief as their Book saith that they call Alkaron and some call that Book Mysap and some call it Harme in divers Languages of Countries which Book Mahomet gave them in the which Book he wrote among other things as I have often read and seen that they that are good shall go to Paradise and the evil folks to Hell and so believe all Sarasins And if a man ask of what Paradise they mean they say it is a place of Delights where a man shall find all manner of Fruits at all times and Waters and Rivers running with Milk and Honey Wine and fresh water and they shall all have fair Houses and good as they have deserved and those Houses are made of precious stones gold and silver and every man shall have ten Wives and Maidens and he shall every day once have to do with them and yet shall they still be maidens And they speak often of the blessed Virgin Mary and tell of the Incarnation that Mary was learned of Angels and that Gabriel said to her that she was chosen before all other from the Beginning of the World and that witnesseth well their Book and Gabriel told her the Incarnation of Iesus Christ and that she should conceive and bear a Child and they say that Christ was a holy Prophet in word and deed and also meek and right wise to all men and one not any way blame-worthy and they say that when the Angel told her of the Incarnation she had great dread for she was very young and there was one in that Country that practised Sorcery who was called Takina that with Enchantments could make him like an Angel and went often and lay with Maidens and therefore was Mary the more afraid of the Angel and thought in her mind that it had been Takina who went to Maidens and she charged him in the Name of God to tell her if he were the same Takina and the Angel bade her have no dread for he was for certain a true Messenger of Iesus Christ. Also their Book Alkaron saith that she had a Child under a Palm-Trée then was she greatly ashamed and wished her self dead but as soon as her Child was born he spake and comforted her saying Netimeas Maria that is Be not afraid Mary And in many other places saith their Book Alkaron that Iesus Christ spake as soon as he was born and the Book saith that Iesus Christ was sent of Almighty God to be an ensample to all men and that God shall Iudge all men the good to Heaven and the wicked to Hell and that Iesus Christ is the best Prophet of all other and next to God and that he was a holy Prophet for he gave the blind their sight and healed all Diseases he raised men that were dead and was taken quick into

Heaven And if they may find a Book with Gospels such as Missus est Angelus they do it great Worship and they fast one Moneth in the year and eat only a night and they keep them from their Wives but they that are sick are not constrained to it And their Book Alkaron speaketh of Jews and saith they are wicked people for they will not believe that Iesus Christ is of God Further they say that the Jews speak falsly of our Lady and her Son Iesus Christ in saying that they did not hang him on the Cross. Their Book Alkaron forbiddeth Murther and Theft and commandeth them to do so to others as they would have others do to them for the Sarasins believe so near our Naith that they are easily converted when men preach the Law of Iesus Christ. They say also that they know right well by their Prophesies that their Law of Mahomet shall fail as the Jews Law doth and that the Law of Christians shall last to the Worlds end And if a man ask them wherein they believe they say that they believe in God Almighty that is the Maker of Heaven and Earth all other things and without him is nothing done and at the day of Iudgment every man shall be rewarded after his deserving and that all things are truth that God spake by the mouth of his Prophets CHAP. XLV Yet further concerning Mahomet ALso Mahomet had writ in his Book Alkaron that every man should have two Wives or three or four but now they have nine and as many Lemmans as them liketh and it any of these Wives do wrong to their Husbands he may drive her out of his House and take in another but he must give part of his goods Moreover where men speak of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost they say that they are not three Persons but one God for their Book Alkaron speaketh not thereof nor of the Trinity but they say that God spake or else he was dumb and that God had a Ghost or else he was not alive They say Gods Word hath great strength and so saith their Alkaron and they say that Abraham and Moses were greatly in favour with God for they spake with him and Mahomet was a true Messenger of God and they have many good Articles of our Faith and some understand the Scriptures Prophets Gospels and the Bible for they have them written in their Language In their manner they know holy Writ but they understand it but after the Letter and so do the Iews for they understand it not Spiritually but after their Letter and therefore saith Saint Paul Litera occidit Spiritus autem vivificar that is the Letter killeth but the Spirit quickneth The Sarasins likewise say that the Jews are wicked for they keep not the Law of Moses which he gave them and also Christians are evil for they keep not the Commandments of the Gospel that Iesus Christ sent unto them And further I shall tell you what the Soldan told me upon day in his Chamber shutting out all other men as Lords Knights and others for he would speak with me in counsel and then he asked me how Christians governed themselves in our Country I answered him and said Right well thanks be to God but he said secretly nay for he said that our Priests made no force of Gods Service for they should give good example to men to do well and they give ill example and therefore when the people should go on the Holy days to Church to serve God they go to the Tavern to sin in gluttony both day and night eating and drinking as Beasts that wot not when they have enough He said also that there was much contention among Christians and one would defraud another and they were so proud that they wist not how to clothe them now short now long now strait now wide and of all fashions whereas they should be humble and meek giving their alms as Iesus Christ did in whom they believe He said also that they were so covetous that for a little money they would sell their children sisters or wives one man taking another mans wife and no man keeping his promise Therefore said he for their sins hath God given these Lands to our hands and not through our strength but all for your sins For we know certainly that while ye truly serve God he will help you so that no man shall win of you if that ye serve God as ye ought to do but while ye live so sinfully as ye do we have no dread of you for God will not help you And then I asked him how he knew the state of Christians in that manner and he said that he knew well the state both of Lords and of Commons by his Messengers which he sent through all the Countries as it were Merchants with precious Stones and other Merchandise to know the manner of every Country And then he did call again all the Lords into his Chamber to us and then shewed he unto me three persons that were great Lords of that Country who shewed unto me the manner of my Country and of all Christendom as though they had béen men born in the same parts and they spake French right well and the Soldan also and then I had great marbel of this slander of our Faith and so they that should be turned by our good examples to the Faith of Iesus Christ they are drawn away through our evil living and therefore it is no wonder if that they call us evil for they say truth but the Sarasins are true for they keep truly the Commandments of their Alkaron CHAP. XLVI Of the Birth of Mahomet ANd ye shall understand that Mahomet was born at Ithareb in Araby and his Father was a Painim and his Mother a Jew their names were Abdal and H●mna and they were but poor folk and he was first a poor drudge and kept horse and afterward he followed Merchandise And it befell sometime that Christians become Sarasins either through poverty simpleness or wickedness and therefore their Archbishop when he received them said Laelles ella Mahomet ros sella that is to say there is no God but one and Mahomet is his Messenger And seeing I have told you a part of their Law and their Customs Now I shall tell you of their Letters with their Names First they have for a almoy b bethat c cathi d delphy e ethoti f thy g gatophin h hecum i iochi k kathi l lothum m malach n nahalht o orthy p th●zui q zo●hii r ruchelat s chotimus t salathy v yrichom x m●z●r z z●l●phin johe-t●ncon these are the names Four Letters have they yet more for diversity of their Language forasmuch as they speak so in their throats as we have in our Language and speech in England Two Letters more they also have in their A. B. C. that is to say the which are called thrane and zawx CHAP. LVII