he, of unclene bestes.  And thanne seyde the aungelle, Non dices immunda, que Deus mundavit.  And that was in tokene, that no man scholde have in despite non erthely man, for here diverse lawes:  for wee knowe not whom God lovethe, ne whom God hatethe.  And for that ensample, whan men seyn De profundis, thei seyn it in comoun and in generalle, with the Cristene, pro animabus omnium defunctorum, pro quibus sit orandum.  And therfore seye I of this folk, that ben so trewe and so feythefulle, that God lovethe hem.  For he hathe amonges hem many of the prophetes, and alle weye hathe had.  And in tho yles, thei prophecyed the incarnacioun of oure Lord Jesu Crist, how he scholde ben born of a mayden; 3000 zeer or more or oure Lord was born of the Virgyne Marie.  And thei beleeven wel in the incarnacioun, and that fulle perfitely:  but thei knowe not the manere, how be suffred his passioun and dethe for us.

And bezonde theise yles, there is another yle, that is clept Pytan.  The folk of that contree ne tyle not, ne laboure not the erthe:  for thei eten no manere thing:  and thei ben of gode colour, and of faire schap, aftre hire gretnesse:  but the smalle ben as dwerghes:  but not so litylle, as ben the pigmeyes.  Theise men lyven be the smelle of wylde apples, and whan thei gon ony fer weye, thei beren the apples with hem.  For zif the hadde lost the savour of the apples, thei scholde dyen anon.  Thei ne ben not fulle resonable:  but thei ben symple and bestyalle.

Aftre that, is another yle, where the folk ben alle skynned, roughe heer, as a rough best, saf only the face and the pawme of the hond.  Theise folk gon als wel undir the watir of the see, as thei don above the lond, alle drye.  And thei eten bothe flessche and fissche alle raughe.  In this yle is a great ryvere, that is wel a 2 myle and an half of brede, that is clept Beumare.  And fro that rivere a 15 journeyes in lengthe, goynge be the desertes of the tother syde of the ryvere, (whoso myght gon it, for I was not there:  but it was told us of hem of the contree, that with inne tho desertes) weren the trees of the sonne, and of the mone, that spaken to Kyng Alisandre, and warned him of his dethe.  And men seyn, that the folk that kepen tho trees, and eten of the frute and of the bawme that growethe there, lyven wel 400 zeere or 500 zere, be vertue of the frut and of the bawme.  For men seyn, that bawme growethe there in gret plentee, and no where elles, saf only at Babyloyne, as I have told zou before.  Wee wolde han gon toward the trees fulle gladly, zif wee had myght:  but I trowe, that 100000 men of armes myghte not passen the desertes safly, for the gret multytude of wylde bestes, and of grete dragouns, and of grete multytude serpentes, that there ben, that slen and devouren alle that comen aneyntes hem.  In that contre ben manye white olifantes with outen nombre, and of unycornes, and of lyouns of many maneres, and many of suche bestes, that I have told before, and of many other hydouse bestes with outen nombre.