And They Be Full Devout And Right True One To Another.
And They Set Not By No Barretts, Ne By Cautels, Nor Of No Deceits.
And he hath under him seventy-two provinces, and in every province
is a king.
And these kings have kings under them, and all be
tributaries to Prester John. And he hath in his lordships many
great marvels.
For in his country is the sea that men clepe the Gravelly Sea, that
is all gravel and sand, without any drop of water, and it ebbeth
and floweth in great waves as other seas do, and it is never still
ne in peace, in no manner season. And no man may pass that sea by
navy, ne by no manner of craft, and therefore may no man know what
land is beyond that sea. And albeit that it have no water, yet men
find therein and on the banks full good fish of other manner of
kind and shape, than men find in any other sea, and they be of
right good taste and delicious to man's meat.
And a three journeys long from that sea be great mountains, out of
the which goeth out a great flood that cometh out of Paradise. And
it is full of precious stones, without any drop of water, and it
runneth through the desert on that one side, so that it maketh the
sea gravelly; and it beareth into that sea, and there it endeth.
And that flome runneth, also, three days in the week and bringeth
with him great stones and the rocks also therewith, and that great
plenty.
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