But ye shall understande the meat and drinke is more honest among us than it is in those countreys, for all the comons eate upon skines of beastes on theyr knees and eate but fleshe of all maner of beastes, & when they haue all eate they wipe theyr handes on their skirtes & they eate but once in the day & eate but little bread but the maner of the lordes is full noble and richly. [Footnote 1: Others call it Sugarmago or Eugarmago.] [Footnote 2: _Pynson_ says seven.] [Footnote 3: This is a curious term, which can scarcely be translated. A French edition has _Mountaynette_, which _Cotgrave_ says is a little mountain. A Latin edition says _Ascensorium_.] [Footnote 4: Serpents.] [Footnote 5: Representation.] [Footnote 6: I have up to the present failed in finding equivalents for these two words, also for Quickes (spelt in _Pynson_ Onichez, which may probably mean onyxes,) and Gerandes. This latter word is spelt in one MS. _Garantez_, and may mean garnet. Cotgrave gives _Alabandique_, "a kinde of blacke stone mingled with purple."] [Footnote 7: Beryl.] [Footnote 8: _Marco Polo_ gives a graphic description of the invasion and subjection of Manzi, or Southern China, in the year 1268, by Kublai's great general _Bayan_ (great or noble) _Hundred eyes_. If, therefore, there is any truth in Mandeville, he and his "felaw" may have helped to put down an insurrection in the kingdom of Manzi.] [Decoration] CAP. LXVIII. _Wherefore that the Emperour of Cathay is called the great Caane._