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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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CHAPTER XLVII.
OF CHINGHIS, AND HOW HE BECAME THE FIRST KAAN OF THE
TARTARS.
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Now it came to pass in the year of Christ's Incarnation
1187 that the Tartars made them a King whose name
was CHINGHIS KAAN.1 He was a man of great worth,
and of great ability (eloquence), and valour. And as
soon as the news that he had been chosen King was
spread abroad through those countries, all the Tartars
in the world carne to him and owned him for their Lord.
And right well did he maintain the Sovereignty they
had given him. What shall I say ? The Tartars
gathered to him in astonishing multitude, and when he
saw such numbers he made a great furniture of spears
and arrows and such other arms as they used, and set
about the conquest of all those regions till he had
conquered eight provinces. When he conquered a
province he did no harm to the people or their property,
but merely established some of his own men in the
country along with a proportion of theirs, whilst he
led the remainder to the conquest of other provinces.
And when those whom he had conquered became
aware how well and safely he protected them against
all others, and how they suffered no ill at his hands,
and saw what a noble prince he was, then they joined
him heart and soul and became his devoted followers.
And when he had thus gathered such a multitude that
they seemed to cover the earth, he began to think of
conquering a great part of the world. Now in the
year of Christ 1200 he sent an embassy to Prester
John, and desired to have his daughter to wife. But
when Prester John heard that Chinghis Kaan demanded
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