ABSTRACT
Sir John Mandeville tells people of lands and countries and isles that are beyond the land of Cathay. Nevertheless he said them that thought it no great marvel, were trees bearing a fruit that becomes birds flying, the which men call Bernakes. And in that country are trees bearing gariofles and nutmegs, and great nuts of Inde. And there are vines that bear so great bobbs of grapes that a strong man may hardly bear one of them. For King Alexander chased them thither, for he weened to have enclosed them there through working of man. For all he were a heathen man, God of his special grace heard his prayer and closed the hills together, the which are so great and so high that no man may pass them. In this land also are many ypotams that dwell some time upon land and some time on the water, and they are half man and half horse.
