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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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BOOK I.
MARCO POLO
salt-fish (tunny, to wit) and onions, and this kind of diet
they maintain in order to preserve their health.2
Their ships are wretched affairs, and many of them
get lost ; for they have no iron fastenings, and are only
stitched together with twine made from the husk of the
Indian nut. They beat this husk until it becomes like
horse-hair, and from that they spin twine, and with this
stitch the planks of the ships together. It keeps well,
and is not corroded by the sea-water, but it will not stand
well in a storm. The ships are not pitched, but are
rubbed with fish-oil. They have one mast, one sail, and
one rudder, and have no deck, but only a cover spread
over the cargo when loaded. This cover consists of
hides, and on the top of these hides they put the horses
which they take to India for sale. They have no iron
to make nails of, and for this reason they use only
wooden trenails in their shipbuilding, and then stitch
the planks with twine as I have told you. Hence 'tis a
perilous business to go a voyage in one of those ships,
and many of them are lost, for in that Sea of India the
storms are often terrible.'
The people are black, and are worshippers of
Mahommet. The residents avoid living in the cities,
for the heat in summer is so great that it would kill
them. Hence they go out (to sleep) at their gardens in
the country, where there are streams and plenty of
water. For all that they would not escape but for one
thing that I will mention. The fact is, you see, that in
summer a wind often blows across the sands which en-
compass the plain, so intolerably hot that it would kill
everybody, were it not that when they Perceive that
wind coming they plunge into water up to the neck, and
so abide until the wind have ceased.' [And to prove
the great heat of this wind, Messer Mark related a case
that befell when he was there. The Lord of Hormos,
not having paid his tribute to the King of Kerman the
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