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0376 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
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MARCO POLO   Boos I.

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' CHAPTER XIII

OF THE GREAT COUNTRY OF PERSIA ; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE

THREE KINGS.

PERSIA is a great country, which was in old times very

illustrious and powerful ; but now the Tartars have wasted

and destroyed it.

In Persia is the city of SABA, from which the Three

Magi set out when they went to worship Jesus Christ ;

and in this city they are buried, in three very large and

beautiful monuments, side by side. And above them

there is a square building, carefully kept. The bodies

are still entire, with the hair and beard remaining. One

of these was called Jaspar, the second Melchior, and the

third Balthasar. Messer Marco Polo asked a great many

questions of the people of that city as to those Three

Magi, but never one could he find that knew aught of the

matter, except that these were three kings who were

buried there in days of old. However, at a place three

days' journey distant he heard of what I am going to tell

you. He found a village there which goes by the name

of CALA ATAPERISTAN,1 which is as much as to say, " The

Castle of the Fire-worshippers." And the name is rightly

applied, for the people there do worship fire, and I will

tell you why.

They relate that in old times three kings of that

country went away to worship a Prophet that was born,

and they carried with them three manner of offerings,

Gold, and Frankincense, and Myrrh ; in order to ascertain

whether that Prophet were God, or an earthly King, or a

Physician. For, said they, if he take the Gold, then he

is an earthly King ; if he take the Incense he is God ; if

he take the Myrrh he is a Physician.

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