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0066 Cathay and the way thither : vol.2
中国および中国への道 : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000042
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306 NOTICES OF THE LAND ROUTE TO CATHAY, ETC.

blood ; camel's hay ;1 turbit ;2 silk-gauze ; sweetmeats ; gold wire ; dressed silk ; wrought amber in beads, etc.

Sold in half scores of pieces. Buckrams of Erzingan and Cyprus.

By the piece.

Silk velvets ; damasks ; 7nararnati ; gold cloth of every kind ; nachetti and nacchi, of every kind ; and all cloths of silk and gold except gauzes.3

Sold by the hundred piks of Gazaria.4

Common stuffs and canvasses of all kinds, except those of Champagne; also French and North-country broad cloths.

Then follow details of the different kinds of cloths, with the length of the pieces. And then a detail of special modes of selling certain wares, such as :

Undressed vairs, and vair bellies and backs ; Slavonian squirrels ; martins and fitches ; goat skins and ram skins ; dates, filberts, walnuts ; salted sturgeon tails ; salt ; oil of Venice ; oil of the March ; oil of Apulia, of Gaeta, etc. ; wheat and barley ; wine • of Greece, of Turpia in Calabria, of Patti in Sicily, of Patti in Apulia,6 of Cutrone in Calabria,7 of the March, of Crete, of Romania ; country wine.

good in palpitations and watery eyes; but not as if they were used in his own time.

. 1 Squinanti, the vxo?vos of the Greek herbalists, or Juncus Odoratus. The name in the text is that used (and perhaps invented) by Gerarde.

2 The cortical part of the root of a species of convolvulus from various parts of the East Indies. Like other drugs named here, it is but little used in medicine now-a-days.

3 On the words in this passage see note, p. 295 supra.

4 Gazaria, the country embracing the Sea of Azov and the Crimea, in which were the Frank factories of Tana, Cafi'a, Soldaia, etc. ; so named from the ancient tribes of the Khozars or Chasars.

S Tropea, on the west coast of Calabria.

6 Patti in Sicily is a small cathedral town west of Milazzo. The other I cannot indicate.

7 Cotrone, the ancient Crotona, on the east coast of Calabria.