The English Version.

And he hathe in his lordschipes many grete marveyles.  For in his contree, is the see that men clepen the Gravely See, that is alle gravelle and sond, with outen ony drope of watre:  and it ebbethe and flowethe in grete wawes, as other sees don:  and it is never stille ne in pes, in no maner cesoun.  And no man may passe that see be navye, be no maner of craft:  and therfore may no man knowe, what lond is bezond that see.  And alle be it that it have no watre, zit men fynden there in and on the bankes, fulle gode fissche of other maner of kynde and schappe, thanne men fynden in ony other see; and thei ben of right goode tast, and delycious to mannes mete.

And a 3 iourneys long fro that see, ben gret mountaynes; out of the whiche gothe out a gret flood, that comethe out of paradys:  and it is fulle of precious stones, with outen ony drope of water:  and it rennethe thorghe the desert, on that o syde; so that it makethe the see gravely:  and it berethe in to that see, and there it endethe.  And that flomme rennethe also, 3 dayes in the woke, and bryngethe with him grete stones, and the roches also therewith, and that gret plentee.  And anon as thei ben entred in to the gravely see, thei ben seyn no more; but lost for evere more.  And in tho 3 dayes, that that ryvere rennethe, no man dar entren in to it:  but in the other dayes, men dar entren wel y now.  Also bezonde that flomme, more upward to the desertes, is a gret pleyn alle gravelly betwene the mountaynes:  and in that playn, every day at the sonne risynge, begynnen to growe smale trees; and thei growen til mydday, berynge frute:  but no man dar taken of that frute; for it is a thing of fayrye.  And aftre mydday, thei discrecen and entren azen in to the Erthe, so that at the goynge doun of the Sonne, thei apperen no more; and so thei don every day; and that is a gret marvaille.

In that desert ben many wylde men, that ben hidouse to loken on:  for thei ben horned; and thei speken nought, but thei gronten, as pygges.  And there is also gret plentee of wylde Houndes.  And there ben manye popegayes, that thei clepen psitakes in hire langage:  and thei speken of hire propre nature, and salven men that gon thorghe the desertes, and speken to hem als appertely, as thoughe it were a man.  And thei that speken wel, han a large tonge, and han 5 toos upon a Fote.  And there ben also of other manere, that han but 3 toos upon a fote; and thei speken not, or but litille:  for thei cone not but cryen.

This Emperour Prestre John, whan he gothe in to battaylle, azenst ony other Lord, he hathe no baneres born before him:  but he hathe 3 crosses of gold, fyn, grete and hye, fulle of precious stones:  and every of the crosses ben sett in a chariot, fulle richely arrayed.  And for to kepen every cros, ben ordeyned 10000 men at Armes, and mo than 100000 men on Fote, in maner as men wolde kepe a Stondard in oure Contrees, whan that wee ben in lond of werre.  And this nombre