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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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引用情報
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MARCO POLO BOOK II.
and all that time he does nothing but go hawking round
about among the canebrakes along the lakes and rivers
that abound in that region, and across fine plains on
which are plenty of cranes and swans, and all sorts of
other fowl. The other gentry of the camp also are
never done with hunting and hawking, and every day
they bring home great store of venison and feathered
game of all sorts. Indeed, without having witnessed it,
you would never believe what quantities of game are
taken, and what marvellous sport and diversion they all
have whilst they are in camp there.
There is another thing I should mention ; to wit, that
for 20 days' journey round the spot nobody is allowed,
be he who he may, to keep hawks or hounds, though
anywhere else whosoever list may keep them. And
furthermore throughout all the Emperor's territories,
nobody however audacious dares to bunt any of these
four animals, to wit, hare, stag, buck, and roe, from the
month of March to the month of October. Anybody
who should do so would rue it bitterly. But those people
are so obedient to their Lord's command, that even if a
man were to find one of those animals asleep by the road-
side he would not touch it for the world ! And thus the
game multiplies at such a rate that the whole country
swarms with it, and the Emperor gets as much as he
could desire. Beyond the term I have mentioned, how-
ever, to wit that from March to October, everybody may
take these animals as he list.°
After the Emperor has tarried in that place, enjoying
his sport as I have related, from March to the middle of
May, he moves with all his people, and returns straight
to his capital city of Cambaluc (which is also the capital of
Cathay, as you have been told) , but all the while con-
tinuing to take his diversion in hunting and hawking as
he goes along.
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