St Michaels University School - Black Red and Blue Yearbook (Victoria, British Columbia Canada)

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they Were seen of men on the land. And many other things he told me, which I will not here set down, lest I be called a liarg yet the youth was of so pleasant a countenance that I could not think him to be so shameless as to deceive me. And of what befell on my journey to the city called Ter- minus you shall learn anon. R. V. H. 52555 19

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without horses, and of these they have great store. Some have bars of iron laid upon the roads to guide them, and they are great chariots, in which any man may travel if he pay the smallest piece of silver of the country, but others they have which are without guides, and these hurtle hither and thither at will, wherefore men call them bubbles. I was myself nigh- hand slain by one of them, whereof the charioteer was a man right felonious and foul, and of an evil savour. In this city I lodged my company in an inn of incredible bigness, and they call' it the hostel of the Empress, though I know neither king nor queen that hath so fair a palace. They make light their houses with certain small bottles of glass, which by their enchantments they fill in an instant with ex- ceeding bright light, which is a great marvel. And in that land a man may speak with his friend, though he be many leagues distant, if he but say Hello to a hole in the wall, and this I have essayed many times, wherefore I know it to be sooth. And many of their arts are the just con- trary of ours, for whereas we build our houses of stone, and kindle fires of wood therein, in this land they build very many houses of wood, and burn on their hearths a kind of black .stone, which they find in great abundance in the ground. And this I have seen with mine own eyes. Now it fell' on a certain day as I walked abroad in the city that I encountered a youth, very green of countenance, who held in his mouth a burning stick, and smoke issued from his mouth as he were possessed of a fiend from the Pit. And when I drew near to see .this marvel, he spake to me and en- treated me, saying, Cut it out l And when I would have drawn my sword to do his bidding, he made great outcry and fied, and would have called the watch: wherefore I departed from him. And in another place I came upon a great house, having before the gate two cannons of iron, -exceeding great, and by the gate stood a tall youth of ruddy countenance, dressed as a soldier, in garments of the colour of dust, and on his helmet he bare a band of black and of red: and from within the house came the noise as it were of a great battle. And I addressed the youth, and he spake me right courteously, and told me they did but exercise with musketoons in this house. And he told me many marvels, hard to beli-eve, namely, that in battle these musketoons would throw a ball many hundreds of yards, and slay ten men arow, and make no smoke withal, so that a man was oft slain before he so much as saw an enemy. And he told me that on a mountain nearby dwelt a great en- chanter named Gonzales, who had set up a tall mast, and as he sat at the foot thereof, the winds told him all' that happened in that land, yea, and what ships were on the sea manv days ere 1 8 '

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