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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
MARCO POLO BOOK I.
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the sovereign now reigning, and is more potent than
any of the five who went before him ; in fact, if you
were to take all those five together, they would not be
so powerful as he is 2 Nay, I will say yet more ; for
if you were to put together all the Christians in the
world, with their Emperors and their Kings, the whole
of these Christians, aye, and throw in the Saracens
to boot, would not have such power, or be able to do
so much as this Cublay, who is the Lord of all the
Tartars in the world, those of the Levant and of the
Ponent included ; for these are all his liegemen and
subjects. I mean to show you all about this great
power of his in this book of ours.
You should be told also that all the Grand Kaans,
and all the descendants of Chinghis their first Lord,
are carried to a mountain that is called ALTAY to be
interred. Wheresoever the Sovereign may die, he is
carried to his burial in that mountain with his pre-
decessors ; no matter an the place of his death were
z 0o days' journey distant, thither must he be carried to
his burial.'
Let me tell you a strange thing too. When they
are carrying the body of any Emperor to be buried with
the others, the convoy that goes with the body doth
put to the sword all whom they fall in with on the road,
saying : " Go and wait upon your Lord in the other
world ! " For they do in sooth believe that all such as
they slay in this manner do go to serve their Lord in
the other world. They do the same too with horses ;
for when the Emperor dies, they kill all his best horses,
in order that he may have the use of them in the
other world, as they believe. And I tell you as a
certain truth, that when Mongou Kaan died, more than
20,000 persons, who chanced to meet the body on its
way, were slain in the manner I have told.4
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