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 city called Lan (Laon). There is a very celebrated pilgrimage to the Village of the Mother of God, where we lay; and here they cheat the people out of money in an extraordinary manner.

On the morrow, Monday, we travelled twelve leagues to a city called Villa S. Quintini, the “Village of St. Kwintin,” (St. Quentin). And, straightway, that day we bathed in a bath and some of our people had themselves shaved, just as in Sodom.

On the morrow, Tuesday, we travelled