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MARCO POLO PROL.
should do so, they continued their journey. And I can
assure you, that whithersoever they went they were
honourably provided with whatever they stood in need
of, or chose to command. And this was owing to that
Tablet of Authority from the Lord which they carried
with them.'
So they travelled on and on until they arrived at Layas
in Hermenia, a journey which occupied them, I assure you,
for three years. It took them so long because they could
not always proceed, being stopped sometimes by snow, or
by heavy rains falling, or by great torrents which they
found in an impassable state.
No'T'E I.—On these Tablets, see a note under Bk. II. ch. vii.
NOTE 2. —AMAS, called also Ayacio, Aiazzo, Giazza, Glaza, La Jazza, and Layas, occupied the site of ancient Aegae, and was the chief port of Cilician Armenia, on the Gulf of Scanderoon. Aegae had been in the 5th century a place of trade with the West, and the seat of a bishopric, as we learn from the romantic but incomplete
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Castle of _Ryas,
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