enclosed them there through the working of men, but he might not, and when he saw he might not, he prayed to God that he woulde fulfyll that which hee had begun. God heard his prayer and enclosed the hilles all about them but[6] at the one side, and there is the sea of Caspy. Here some men mighte aske, there is a sea on one side, why go they not out there, for thereto aunswered I that all if it be called a sea, it is not a sea, but a stange[7] standing among hyls, and it is the greatest stange of all the world, and all if they went over the sea, they wot not wher to arive, for they can no speach[8] but their own. And ye shall understand that the Jewes haue no law[9] of their owne in all the world, but they dwell in those hils, and yet they pay tribute for their land to the quene of Armony[10] & sometime it is so that some of the Jewes go over the hils but many men may not passe there togither, for the hils are so great and high. Neverthelesse men say in that countrey therby, that in the time of Antechrist they shall doe much harme to Christen men and therefore all the Jewes that dwell in diverse partes of the worlde lerne for to speake Ebrew, for they hope that the Jewes that dwel among the hils aforesayde, shall come out of the hils and speake all Ebrew and nought else, & then shall these Jewes speake Ebrew to them and lede them into Christendome for to destroye Christen men. For these Jewes say they know by their prophecies that those Jewes y^t are among those hils of Caspy shall come out, and Christen men shall be in their subjection, as they bee under christen men. And if ye wyll know how they shall finde the passage out, as I have understand I shall tell you. In the time of Antechriste a foxe shall make his denne in the same place wher King Alexander dyd make the gates & he shall dyg in the earth so long til he pearce it through and come among the Jewes, and when they see the Foxe, they shall haue great marvaile[11] of him, for they saw neuer such a beast, for other beastes have they among them many, and they shall chase this foxe and pursue him until y^t he be fled againe to his hole that he came from, & then shall they dig after him untill they come to y^e gates y^t Alexander did make of great stones well dight[12] with siment, then shall they brake these gates, and they shall find the issue. [Illustration] [Footnote 1: Obedient, or under the rule of.] [Footnote 2: Other editions say Caldithe.] [Footnote 3: Cinnamon.] [Footnote 4: Tribes.] [Footnote 5: Scythia.] [Footnote 6: Except.] [Footnote 7: Lake or pool.] [Footnote 8: Can only speak their own language.] [Footnote 9: Misprint for _land_.] [Footnote 10: Other editions say Amazony.] [Footnote 11: Be astonished at him.] [Footnote 12: Well cemented.] CAP. LXXXV. _Of the land of Bactry, and of many Griffons and other beastes._