myle about and therein be many serpents which are great with yelow stripes & they haue foure feete, with short leggs & great claws, some be five fadome[6] of length & some of viii & some of x & some more and some lesse & be called Cocodrylles & there are also many wylde beasts & Olyfants.[7] Also in this yle & in many yles thereabout are many wyld geese with two heads, and there be also in y^t countrey white lyons and many other dyverse mervaylous beastes, & if I should tell it all it should be to long. [Illustration] [Illustration] [Footnote 1: Again in Book 7, cap. 2, Pliny speaks of _Cynocephali_, or dog-headed people, for he says that on many of the mountains there is a tribe of men, who have the heads of dogs, and clothe themselves with the skins of wild beasts. Instead of speaking, they bark; and, furnished with claws, they live by hunting and catching birds.] [Footnote 2: Oriental,--coming from the East.] [Footnote 3: Nor in exchange.] [Footnote 4: Hinder.] [Footnote 5: Others say 800.] [Footnote 6: A fathom is 6 feet.] [Footnote 7: Elephants.] CAP. LXII. _Of a great yland called Dodyn, where are many diverse men of evill conditions._ [Illustration] THEN there is another yle that men call Dodyn, & it is a great yle. In this yle are maner diverse maner of men y^t haue evyll maners, for the father eateth the son & the son the father the husband his wyfe and the wyfe hir husbande. And if it so be that the father be sicke, or the mother, or any frend, the sonne goeth soone to the priest of the law & prayeth him that he will aske of the ydoll if his father shall dye of that sicknesse or not. And then the priest and the son kneele downe before the ydole devoutly & asketh him, and he aunswereth to them, and if he say that he shall lyve, then they kepe him wel, and if he say that he shall dye, then commeth the priest with the son or with the wyfe or what frende that it be unto him y^t is sicke, and they lay their hands over his mouth to stop his breath, and so they sley him & then they smite all the body into peces & praieth all his frendes for to come and eate of him that is dead, and they make a great feste thereof and haue many minstrels there, and eate him with great melody. And so when they haue eaten al y^e flesh, then they take the bones and bury them all singing with great worship, and all those that are of his friendes that were not there at the eating of him haue great shame and vylany, so that they shall never more be taken as frends. And the King of this yle is a great lord and mightie, & he hath under him LIIII grete Yles and eche of them hath a King, and in one of these yles are men that haue but one eye, & that is in the middest of theyr front and they eate not flesh & fishe all rawe. And in another yle dwell men that haue no heads & theyr eyen are in theyr shoulders & theyr mouth is on theyr breste.[1] In another yle are men that haue no