felowes that would not go in with us, went about another way for to be before us, and so they were. And we went through the valey and saw there many marvailous things, gold silver precious stones & jewels great plenty, as we thought, whether it were so or no, I know not, for divels are so subtill & false, that they make many times a thinge to seme y^t is not, for to deceive men, and therefore I wold touch nothing for dread of enimies that I saw there in many likenesses, and of dead bodies that I saw lye in the valey, but I dare not saye that they were all bodies, but they were bodies through making of divels. And we were often cast down to the earth by winde, thunder & tempest, but God helped alway, and so passed we through that valey without peryl or harme thankes be to God. [Footnote 1: Perilous.] [Footnote 2: Tambourines.] [Footnote 3: A kind of drum, probably a kettledrum.] [Footnote 4: Entrance.] [Footnote 5: Evilly.] [Footnote 6: Sparkling.] [Footnote 7: Doubt.] [Footnote 8: Received the Sacrament.] [Footnote 9: Others say 9.] CAP. XCII. _Of an yland wherein dwell people as great as giants of xxviii or xxx fote of length & other things._ AND beyond that valey is a great yle, where people as great as giaunts of xxviii fote long & they haue no clothinge but beasts skyns that hang on them, & they eate no bread but flesh raw and they drink milke, & they haue no houses, & they eat gladlyer fleshe of men, than other, & men saye to us, that beyond that yle is a yle where are greater giaunts as xlv or L fote long, & some sayd L cubits long, but I saw not them, and among those giaunts are great shepe, as it were young oxen, and they beare great wolle, these shepe haue I sene many times. An other yle is there northward where are many evill and fell women and they haue precious stones in their eies, & they haue suche kinde y^t if they beholde any man with wrath, they sley them of the beholding as the Basalysk doeth.[1] [Footnote 1: Here a passage is omitted.] CAP. XCIII. _Of women which make great sorow as theyr children are borne & great joy when they are dead._