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Citation Information
6o MARCO POLO
BOOK I.
CHAPTER V.
OF THE KINGDOM OF MAUSUL.
ON the frontier of Armenia towards the south-east is the
kingdom of MAUSUL. It is a very great kingdom, and
inhabited 1 by several different kinds of people whom we
shall now describe.
First there is a kind of people called ARABI, and these
worship Mahommet. Then there is another description
of people who are NESTORIAN and JACOBITE Christians.
These have a Patriarch, whom they call the JATOLIC, and
this Patriarch creates Archbishops, and Abbots, and
Prelates of all other degrees, and sends them into every
quarter, as to India, to Baudas, or to Cathay, just as the
Pope of Rome does in the Latin countries. For you
must know that though there is a very great number of
Christians in those countries, they are all Jacobites and
Nestorians ; Christians indeed, but not in the fashion
enjoined by the Pope of Rome, for they come short in
several points of the Faith.2
All the cloths of gold and silk that are called Mosolins
are made in this country ; and thóse great Merchants
called Mosolins, who carry for sale such quantities of
spicery and pearls and cloths of silk and gold, are also
from this kingdom.3
There is yet another race of people who inhabit the
mountains in that quarter, and are called CURDS. Some
of them are Christians, and some of them are Saracens ;
but they are an evil generation, whose delight it is to
plunder merchants.4
[Near this province is another called Mus and MERDIN,
producing an immense quantity of cotton, from which they
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