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The Gaelic Maundeville (Author: John Maundeville)

paragraph 144

From the greatness of the heat with which the sun gains strength till noon, men lie in that country without a single stitch upon them, in a river or in a sea, save only their mouths and their eyes; and in the ships of that island there is not a single nail of iron, because the adamant draws out the iron.