IIIF Color HighRes
National Institute of Informatics - Digital Silk Road Project
| |||||||||
|
| IIIF Color HighRes |
| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Citation Information
CHAP. VIII.
PERSON OF KÚBLÁI KAAN
357
You must know that there is a tribe of Tartars
called UNGRAT, who are noted for their beauty. Now
every year an hundred of the most beautiful maidens of
this tribe are sent to the Great Kaan, who commits
them to the charge of certain elderly ladies dwelling in
his palace. And these old ladies make the girls sleep
~
with them, in order to ascertain if they have sweet
breath [and do not snore], and are sound in all their
limbs. Then such of them as are of approved beauty,
and are good and sound in all respects, are appointed
to attend on the Emperor by turns. Thus six of these
damsels take their turn for three days and nights, and
s
Portrait of Kúblái Kaan. (From a Chinese Engraving.)
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Copyright (C) 2003-2019 National Institute of Informatics and The Toyo Bunko. All Rights Reserved.