which are in those places. They have horns as big as rams. If they strike or touch anyone, he immediately dies. In those lands there is an abundance of
.
The snakes keep the pepper in their eagerness. In order to take the pepper people set
fire to the place and then the snakes flee down into the earth; because of this the
pepper is black. From
to the city of
where the pepper grows is in the lesser measure which is called
800 units. It is reckoned in the greater measure that is called
six hundred and twenty-three and a half units. The place is barren because of the multitude of the snakes.