The Travels of Sir John Mandeville

Of Saint John the Evangelist. And of the Ypocra

Turkey, he goeth toward the city of Nyke, and passeth through the gate of Chienetout, and always men

, and toward many other places-first men go to an isle that is clept Sylo. In that isle groweth

. And ye shall understand, that St. John was of age thirty-two year, when our Lord suffered his pas

na, that is clept angels' meat; for his body was translated into Paradise. And Turks hold now all that place, and the city and the church; and all Asia the less is y-clept Turkey. And ye shall understand, that St. John let make his grave there in his life, and laid him

d so to Martha, where he was chosen to be bishop; and there groweth right good wine and strong, and that men ca

they of the isles call her Lady of the Land. And she lieth in an old castle, in a cave, and sheweth twice or thrice in the year, and she doth no harm to no man, but if men do her harm. And she was thus changed and transformed, from a fair damosel, into likeness of a dragon, by a goddess tha

ent to the castle, and entered into the cave, the dragon lift up her head against him. And when the knight saw her in that form so hideous and so horrible h

sel saw the shadow of him in the mirror. And she turned her toward him, and asked him what he would? And he said, he would be her leman or paramour. And she asked him, if that he were a knight? And he said, nay. And then she said, that he might not be her leman; but she bade him go again unto his fellows, and make him knight, and come again upon the morrow, and she should come out of the cave before him, and then come and kiss

ead, that he fled again to the ship, and she followed him. And when she saw that he turned not again, she began to cry, as a thing that had much sorrow; and then she turned again into her cave. And anon the knight died. And sithen hitherward might

ome-time from the emperor. And it was wont to be clept Collos; and so call it the Turks yet. And Saint Paul in his