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0060 Cathay and the Way Thither : vol.2
Cathay and the Way Thither : vol.2 / Page 60 (Color Image)

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300   NOTICES OF THE LAND ROUTE TO CATHAY, ETC.

At GREBOCO   .   .   .   .   4laspers.

At MUGHISAR   .   2 2   »

At   ditto,   as tantaulla   iol for the watch   .   02   77

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At ARZINGA,2 at entrance to the town   .

 

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Ditto,   inside• the city   .

 

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Ditto,   for the watchmen, on leaving   .

 

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At the Caravanserai on the Hill

 

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At LIGURTI   .

 

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At ditto,   at the bridge, for tantaullagio

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At the Caravanserai outside ARZERONE3

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At Arzerone, at the Baths4   .   .

 

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Ditto,   inside the city   .

 

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Ditto,   as a present to the lord   .

 

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Ditto,   at the Baths towards Tauris4

 

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At POLORBECH

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At   ditto   .   .

 

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At SERMESSACAL05 for tantaullaggio   .   .

 

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At AGGIA, for the whole journey   .   .

 

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At the middle of the plain of Aggia, for duty

 

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At   ditto   for tant.   .   .

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At CALACRESTI,6   ditto   .

 

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1 This was probably written Tancaullaggio. The Tangauls were guards or patrols upon the roads in Persia. An edict of Ghazan Khan, cited by D'Ohsson, illustrates these charges. He denounces the Tangauls for their exactions from travellers, and authorises them to take a fee of half an akché and no more, for every two camels or four mules loaded. (The akche was, I presume, the • same as the asper, for it is named from cik, white, as the asper from ao- rpov, white). At every station of Tangauls there was to be a stone pillar indicating their number, the duties of their chief, and the fees due. (D' Ohsson, iv, 471-2.) Pegolotti, in his prefatory glossary, says Tantaullo in Tartaresque is applied " to people who act as guards of places and of roads for gentlemen and others," p. xxiii. 2. Erzingan of our maps.

3 Erzrum.

4 In connexion with these baths at the entrance and exit from the city we read that Ghazan Khan, in building New Tabriz, caused to be erected at each gate of the city a great caravanserai, a market, a set of baths, so that the merchants, from whatever quarter they came, found a serai and baths adjoining the custom-house where their wares were examined

(D'Ohsson, iv, 276).

5 I have no doubt that this is the Sarbisacalo of Odoric ; see note at p. 47.

6 Probably the place called Karakalisa (the Black Church).