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0667 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1
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CHAP. VIII.

PERSON OF KÚBLÁI KAAN

357

You must know that there is a tribe of Tartars

called UNGRAT, who are noted for their beauty. Now

every year an hundred of the most beautiful maidens of

this tribe are sent to the Great Kaan, who commits

them to the charge of certain elderly ladies dwelling in

his palace. And these old ladies make the girls sleep

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with them, in order to ascertain if they have sweet

breath [and do not snore], and are sound in all their

limbs. Then such of them as are of approved beauty,

and are good and sound in all respects, are appointed

to attend on the Emperor by turns. Thus six of these

damsels take their turn for three days and nights, and

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Portrait of Kúblái Kaan. (From a Chinese Engraving.)