Fr. Odoric is done with the four friars; and now he telleth of the kingdom of Minibar and how pepper is got.

And now that ye may know how pepper is got, let me tell you that it groweth in a certain empire whereunto I came to land, the name whereof is Minibar ³ , and it groweth 133nowhere else in the world but there. And the forest in which the pepper groweth extendeth for a good eighteen days’ journey, and in that forest there be two cities, the one whereof is called Flandrina and the other Cyngilin ¹ . 134In the city of Flandrina some of the inhabitants are Jews ¹ 135some are Christians ¹ ; and between those two cities 136there is always internal war, but the result is always that the Christians beat and overcome the Jews.