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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Travels of Sir John Mandeville by Sir John Mandeville: smoke go up towards the idols; and then they say that the idols
have eaten; and then the religious men eat the meat afterwards.
In that country be white hens without feathers, but they bear white
wool as sheep do here. In that country women that be unmarried,
they have tokens on their heads like coronals to be known for
unmarried. Also in that country there be beasts taught of men to
go into waters, into rivers and into deep stanks for to take fish;
the which beast is but little, and men clepe them loirs. And when
men cast them into the water, anon they bring up great fishes, as
many as men will. And if men will have more, they cast them in
again, and they bring up as many as men list to have.
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