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When the morning came, he took me with him to the pagoda; when we arrived there, I saw that people were going to and fro, and performing their devotions. "'The king and nobles in front of the idol, near the priests, with heads uncovered, were respectfully seated; also unmarried girls and handsome boys, like Hur and Ghilman were drawn up in lines on the four sides.
Speaking of the "Yles abouten Ynde," he says, "men fynden there an Ile that is clept Crues," where "for the grete distresse of the hete, mennes ballokkes hangen down to their knees, for the grete dissolucioun of the body." The Hur are celestial females, and the Ghilman beautiful youths, who are to attend upon all good Mahometans in Paradise.
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