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0134 Cathay and the way thither : vol.2
中国および中国への道 : vol.2
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EECOLLECT1ONS OF TRAVEL 1T THE EAST,

The second kingdom of India is called Mynibar,' and 'tis of that country that St. Augustine speaketh in treating of the Canine Philosophers, who had this name of Canine because they used to teach people to do as dogs do, e.g. that a man should never be ashamed of anything that was natural to him.2 They did not, however, succeed in persuading these people even that sons might without shame bathe before their fathers, or let their nakedness be seen by them.3

It is in this country that lies the city of Columbum, where the pepper grows, of which we have already spoken.

The third province of India is called Maabar, and the church of St. Thomas which he built with his own hands is there, besides another which he built by the agency of workmen. These he paid with certain very great stones which I have seen there, and with a log cut down on Adam's Mount in Seyllan, which he caused to be sawn up, and from its sawdust other trees were sown. Now that log, huge as it was, was cut down by two slaves of his and drawn to the sea side by the saint's own girdle. When the log reached the sea he said to it, `Go now and tarry for us in the haven of the city of Mirapolis.'4 It arrived there accordingly, whereupon

which a writer in the Madras Journal indicates as perhaps identifying it with the classical Muziris(?). It is now almost a deserted place, but the ancient line of its Rajas still exists (Day, p. 11). In connexion with Marignolli's interpretation of Cynkali it is somewhat curious that Abdurrazzak tells us the people of the neighbouring city of Calicut were known by the name of Chini Bachagdn, " Sons of the Chinese" or " Chinese Young Ones." There is no Persian word kali, "little." The nearest explanation that I can find for Marignolli's etymology is the Arabic kalil, little, small, moderate" (Richardson).

1 Here and where it 'occurs just before, Dobner has Nymbar, but the Venice MS. has correctly Mynibar. See note at p. 74.

2 See Augustine, De Civitate Dei, xiv, 20.

3 Here the author refers to the remarkable decency of the Hindus in such matters, which may well rebuke some who call them niggers."

Among the Lydians," says Herodotus, " and indeed among the barbarians generally, it is reckoned a deep disgrace, even to a man, to be seen naked" (i, 10).

4 Mirapolis is a Grecized form of Mailaptiu, Meliapur, or, as the Catalan