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0358	The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1

0358

The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1

マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1

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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