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OF THE KINGDOM OF ERGUIUL, AND PROVINCE OF SIN JU.
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b' Idolaters, and worshippers of Mahommet.'
4- ': There are plenty of cities in this kingdom, but
4the capital is ERGUIUL. You can travel in a south-
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' of Cathay. Should you follow that road to the south-
.! • . . east, you come to a city called SINJU, belonging also
to Tangut, and subject to the Great Kaan, which
ha. 1, under it many towns and villages.2 The popula-
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is composed of Idolaters, and worshippers of
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„elephants, splendid creatures, covered everywhere but
on' the back with shaggy hair a good four palms long.
# ,•They are partly black, partly white, and really wonder-
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fine and white, finer and whiter than silk. Messer
Marco brought some to Venice as a great curiosity,
and so it was reckoned by those who saw it]. There
are also plenty of them tame, which have been caught
young. [They also cross these with the common cow,
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,.~ ON leaving Campichu, then, you travel five days across
a tract in which many spirits are heard speaking in the
night season ; and at the end of those five marches,
towards the east, you come to a kingdom called
f ERGUIUL, belonging to the Great Kaan. It is one of
. * . b t• , the several kingdoms which make up the great Province
of The . Tang people Tangut. Th e0 le consist of Nestorian Christians
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