749. * CONCERNING THE ROBBERS IN THE DESERT, AND CONCERNING THE CITY Concerning the robbers in the desert and their cruelty which it is not even allowable to describe, nor was it permitted them to show it to me, see above [nos. 728-732]. It can, however, be said that they are not in the land, but are in the desert, because they wander about alone and do not admit any companion, for they are such that they desire to torture, slay, burn and boil whomsoever they meet. This is their pleasure. * The paragraphs (nos. 745-754) are here printed in the order in which they were written.