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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 |
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Citation Information
4O2 MARCO POLO Boos: E.
p. 282, and note in Lord Strangford's Selected Writings, II. 169.) In East Turkestan they call the Chinese Cholzg Iicr, " The Big Heathen." This would exactly correspond to the rendering of Pipino's Latin translation, "hoc est c anunz mad norum l'raejecti." Chinuchi again would be (in Mongol) " wolf-keepers." It is at least possible that the great dogs which Polo terms mastiffs may have been known by such a name. We apply the term Wolf-dog to several varieties, and in Macbeth's
enumeration we have-
" Hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,
Shoughs, water rugs, and Demi- Wolves."
Lastly the root-word may be the Chinese h uen, " dog," as Pauthier says. The mastiffs were probably Tibetan, but may have come through China, and brought . a name with them, like Boule-dogues in France.
[Palladius (p. 46) says that Clzi;zuchi or Cunici " have no resemblance with any of the names found in the Yuen ski, eh. xcix., article Ping chi (military organisation), and relating to the hunting staff of the Khan, viz. : Si pao ch'i (falconers), Ho r ch'i (archers), and J(e lien ch'i (probably those who managed the hounds)."—II. C.)
CHAPTER XX.
How THE EMPEROR GOES ON A HUNTING EXPEDITION.
AFTER he has stopped at his capital city those three
months that I mentioned, to wit, December, January,
February, he starts off on the 1st day of March, and
travels southward towards the Ocean Sea, a journey of
two days.' He takes with him full io,000 falconers, and
some 500 gerfalcons besides peregrines, sakers, and
other hawks in great numbers ; and goshawks also to
fly at the water-fowl.' But do not suppose that he
keeps all these together by him ; they are distributed
about, hither and thither, one hundred together, or two
. hundred at the utmost, as he thinks proper. But they
are always fowling as they advance, and the most part
of the quarry taken is carried to the Emperor. And let
me tell you when he goes thus a-fowling with his ger-
falcons and other hawks, he is attended by full 10,000
men who are disposed in couples ; and these are called
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