1382. At the left, further away from that place on the left bank, there appear great fishes called whales. They are monstrous, and they swallow men, and lacerate them with their jaws. They try to swallow them and they vomit them out.
1382 1/2. Farthest away, that is, on the opposite bank, most deformed faces are seen, especially those of old women, which are so monstrous that they cannot be described. Such faces have been shown me before; they are so deformed that nothing could be more so. They who run about there are to be called insanities.
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