THEN next is the land of Turky, that marcheth to Great Armony and therein are many countreys as Capadoce, Saure,[1] Bryke, Quecion, Patan & Genethe, in eche one of the countreys are many good cities, and it is a plaine land, & few hills and few rivers, and then is the kingdome of Mesopotamy that beginneth eastwarde at flom of Tygre[2] at a citie that men call Mosell,[3] and it lasteth westwarde to the flom of Euphraten, to a citie that men call Rochaym[4] & westwarde from high Armony unto the wildernesse of Inde the lesse, and it is a good land and playne, but there is few rivers, and there is but two hils in that lande, the one is called Simar, and the other Lison, & it marcheth unto the lande of Caldee, and ye shall understande that the land of Ethyope marcheth eastward to the great wildernesse westwarde to the land of Nuby,[5] southwarde to the lande of Maratan[6] and northward to the redde sea & then is the Maritan that lasteth from the hilles of Ethiope unto Liby,[7] the high, and the low that lasteth to the great sea of Spayne.[8] [Footnote 1: Otherwise written Brique, Quesiton, Pytan, and Cemethe.] [Footnote 2: The river Tigris.] [Footnote 3: Mosul.] [Footnote 4: Otherwise Roiantz.] [Footnote 5: Nubia.] [Footnote 6: Mauritania.] [Footnote 7: Lybia.] [Footnote 8: The Mediterranean.] CAP. LXXXIIII. _Of divers countreys kingedomes & yles, and marvayles beyond the land of Cathay._ NOW haue I sayd and spoken of many things on this side of the great Kingedome of Cathay, of whome many are obeysant[1] to the great Caane. Now shall I tell of some landes, countreys & yles that are beyond the lande of Cathay. Whoso goeth from Cathay to Inde the high and the low, he shal go through a kingdome that men call Cadissen[2] & it is a great lande, there groweth a maner of fruite as it were gourdes, & when it is ripe men cut it a sonder, and men fynde therein a beast as it were of fleshe and bone and bloud, as it were a lyttle lambe without wolle, and men eate the beast & fruite also, and sure it semeth very strange. Neverthelesse I sayd to them that I held y^t for no marvayle, for I sayd that in my countrey are trees y^t beare fruit y^t become byrds flying, and they are good to eate, & that that falleth on the water liveth & that that falleth on earth dyeth, & they marvailed much thereat. In this countrey & many other thereabout are trees that beareth cloves, & nutmigs and canel[3] and many other spyces, & there be vines that beare so great grapes that a strong man shall enough to beare a cluster of grapes. In that same lande are the hils of Caspy that men cal Uber & amonge those hilles are the Jewes of the x kindes[4] enclosed therein, that men call Gog & Magog & they may not come out on no syde. There were inclosed xxii kynges with theyr folke that dwelled betwene y^e hills of Syche,[5] and King Alexander chased them thither among those hilles, for hee trusting for to haue