Travelogue

"Full of robbers and rascals"

"Innumerable different visions appear to them"

"Salt fish, hides, cattle, and Irish hobby-horses"

"They conveyed us across to the rock one by one"

"This place I could not see, because I was unwilling to look into it"

"We passed over level ground through country pleasing enough to the eye"

"And out of there I crossed the sea"

"And there I embarked and crossed to Calais"

"I reached one of their towns called Tearmann"

"I reached the port of Dover where I saw Sir Gawain's head"

"The purgatory is in this priory and there is a great deep lake"

"We arrived at Dublin where we embarked to cross to England"

"We returned by the road to king Ó Néill who received us very well and had great joy"

"And these two had orders to take me to the archbishop of Armagh"

"For nothing in the world would I abandon this journey"

"He rebuffed me very strongly and put great fear in me"

"He strongly advised and begged me to by no means enter the purgatory"

"I at once departed from him and went to the aforesaid town and from there sent to king Ó Néill"

"I departed and crossed the deep"

"I had news that the king of England was in a great enclosed park"

"I would have to go through strange places inhabited by wild people"

"Saint Patrick had the reports set down in writing"

"The first prior of the aforesaid church"

"The prior advises them and if he sees that he cannot dissuade them from their intention"

"The whole island is surrounded by the waters of a large, very deep lake"

"As hard and wild as if they were beasts"

"I have sustained great dangers"

"Our Lord led him to a deserted place"

Ramón de Perellós sets off for Saint Patrick's Purgatory

"A rock, which, rising to the surface of the water, the breeze had exposed"

"A spreading hawthorn tree"

"He had swallowed up a very wicked man"

"I insisted that they should take me to an island"

"So ended my pilgrimage to Lough Derg"

"They told the marvellous incidents of the voyage to their listening friends"

"They would make a Jonas of me against my will"

"What we saw was the great serpent or fish"

"A lonely and remote region"

"A miracle! - A miracle!"

"All was as still as death"

"An incredible quantity of rags"

"I at length reached the goal of my long-nourished desire"

"I gazed on the distant borders of the Lake"

"I had long experienced extreme anxiety to visit"

"Multitudes of the lower classes of the native Irish"

"So far shalt thou go, and no farther, and here shall thy proud waves be stayed"

"So long as the Church of Rome finds dupes"

"The lake itself changes its wonted blue into a dull brown colour"

"The pilgrims throng the shore opposite to the island"

"The unbroken stillness of this consecrated spot, was exchanged to bustle, noise, and jarring, of a countless multitude"