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| 中国および中国への道 : vol.2 |
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342 RECOLLECTIONS OF TRAVEL IN THE EAST,
took our way through MANZI,1 with a magnificent provision for our expenses from the Emperor, besides about two hundred horses ; and on our way we beheld the glory of this world in such a multitude of cities, towns, and villages, and in other ways displayed, that no tongue can give it fit ex-
pression.
And sailing on the feast of St. Stephen,N we navigated the
Indian Sea until Palm Sunday, and then arrived at a very noble city of India called CoLUMBUM,3 where the whole world's
Tartars looked on the Pope as the people of India (according to the common story) used to look on John Company, viz., as in a manner immortal. " Qucerebant enim de Diagno Papa," says Rubruquis, " si esset ita senex sicut audierunt" (p. 278).
1 Dobner's book has here and afterwards 11lauzi, but this is probably from ignorance only. The Venice MS. has Manci and Manzi plainly enough.
2 Here the chronology of the journey calls for remark. The last precise date afforded was St. John's Day, 1339. The succeeding winter is passed at the court of Uzbek. Supposing the party to quit Sarai in May 1340, they would reach Armalec about September (see Pegolotti, pp. 285-6), and they did not quit that city till near the end of the third year from their leaving Avignon, viz., late in 1341. The journey from Armalec to Peking would occupy four or five months, but probably much more, as they appear (see infra, near the end) to have spent some time at Kamil. Hence perhaps they did not arrive at Peking earlier than the latter part of 1342, but not later than that, as the Chinese record about the horses fixes the year. The St. Stephen's day (26th December) on which he sailed from Zayton could not have been earlier than that of 1346, but might have been later. Meinert takes the day for 2nd August (Stephen I, Pope and Martyr), but as Kunstmann justly points out, that would be no season for sailing from China. The latter fixes the date to 1347, as Easter fell late in 1348, and more time is thus allowed for the voyage to Malabar. We will assume it so.
3 Ritter over hastily identifies Marignolli's Columbum with Columbo in Ceylon, and deduces that pepper was then a staple of that island (Erdlcunde, v, 688), though as the author says that the "whole world's pepper" was produced there, this interpretation would imply that none was produced in Malabar, the Pepper Metropolis from time immemorial. Even Dobner is more judicious here, and concludes that Columbo is not meant, as the place is clearly placed by Marignolli on the continent. But then he continues, entirely losing this gleam of judgment, that it was in Nimbar (see note further on), and so could not be in Malabar, adeoque in regno Inclostan. An fortassis urbs Lahor sit, judicium penes lectorem esto." One
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