vnlesse a man should see them with his own eies.  In this country also dead men are burned, and their wiues are burned aliue with them, as in the city of Polumbrum above mentioned:  for the men of that country say that she goeth to accompany him in another world, that he should take none other wife in marriage. [Sidenote:  Moumoran.] Moreouer I traueled on further by the ocean-sea towards the south, and passed through many countries and islands, whereof one is called Moumoran, and it containeth in compasse ii.  M. miles, wherein men and women haue dog faces, and worship an oxe for their god:  and therefore euery one of them cary the image of an oxe of gold or siluer vpon their foreheads.  The men and the women of this country go all naked, sauing that they hang a linen cloth before their priuities.  The men of the said country are very tall and mighty, and by reason that they goe naked, when they are to make battell, they cary yron or steele targets before them, which do couer and defend their bodies from top to toe:  and whomsoeuer of their foes they take in battel not being able to ransom himselfe for money, they presently deuoure him:  but if he be able to redeeme himselfe for money, they let him go free.  Their king weareth about his necke 300. great and most beautifull vnions, and saith euery day 300. prayers vnto his god.  He weareth vpon his finger also a stone of a span long which seemeth to be a flame of fire, and therefore when he weareth it, no man dare once approch vnto him:  and they say that there is not any stone in the whole world of more value then it.  Neither could at any time the great Tartarian Emperour of Katay either by force, money, or policie obtaine it at his hands:  notwithstanding that he hath done the vtmost of his indeuour for this purpose.

Of the Island of Sylan:  and of the mountaine where Adam mourned for his
  sonne Abel.

I passed also by another island called Sylan, which conteineth in compasse aboue ii.  M. miles:  wherein are an infinit number of serpents, and great store of lions, beares, and al kinds of rauening and wild beasts, and especially of elephants.  In the said country there is an huge mountaine, whereupon the inhabitants of that region do report that Adam mourned for his son Abel the space of 500. yeres.  In the midst of this mountain there is a most beautiful plain, wherin is a litle lake conteining great plenty of water, which water the inhabitants report to haue proceeded from the teares of Adam and Eue:  howbeit I proued that to be false, because I saw the water flow in the lake.  This water is ful of hors-leeches, and blood-suckers, and of precious stones also:  which precious stones the king taketh not vnto his owne vse, but once or twise euery yere he permitteth certaine poore people to diue vnder the water for the said stones, and al that they can get he bestoweth vpon them, to the end they may pray for his soule.  But that they may with lesse danger diue vnder the