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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
284 MARCO POLO BOOK I.
CHAPTER LIX.
CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TENDUC, AND THE DESCENDANTS OF PRESTER JOHN.
TENDUC is a province which lies towards the east, and
contains numerous towns and villages ; among which is
the chief city, also called TENDUC. The king of the
province is of the lineage of Prester John, George by
name, and he holds the land under the Great Kaan ;
not that he holds anything like the whole of what
Prester John possessed.' It is a custom, I may tell
you, that these kings of the lineage of Prester John
always obtain to wife either daughters of the Great
Kaan or other princesses of his family.'
In this province is found the stone from which
Azure is made. It is obtained from a kind of vein
in the earth, and is of very fine quality.3 There is
also a great manufacture of fine cainlets of different
colours from camel's hair. The people get their living
by their cattle and tillage, as well as by trade and
handicraft.
The rule of the province is in the hands of the
Christians, as I have told you ; but there are also plenty
of Idolaters and worshippers of Mahommet. And there
is also here a class of people called A7gons, which is
as much as to say in French Guasmul, or, in other
words, sprung from two different races : to wit, of the
race of the Idolaters of T endue and of that of the
worshippers of Mahommet. They are handsomer men
than the other natives of the country, and having more
ability, they come to have authority ; and they are also
capital merchants.'
You must know that it was in this same capital city
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