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| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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引用情報
CHAP. XXIII. THE PLOT AGAINST ACHMATH
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surprised, but made haste to go, for he feared the Prince
greatly. When he arrived at the gate he met a Tartar
called Cogatai, who was Captain of the 12,000 that
formed the standing garrison of the City ; and the latter
asked him whither he was bound so late ? " To
Chinkin, who is just arrived." Quoth Cogatai, " How
can that be ? How could he corne so privily that I know
nought of it ? " So he followed the Minister with a
certain number of his soldiers. Now the notion of the
Cathayans was that, if they could make an end of
Achmath, they would have nought else to be afraid of.
So as soon as Achmath got inside the palace, and saw
all that illumination, he bowed down before Vanchu,
supposing him to be Chinkin, and Chenchu who was
standing ready with a sword straightway cut his head
off. As soon as Cogatai, who had halted at the entrance,
beheld this, he shouted " Treason ! " and instantly dis-
charged an arrow at Vanchu and shot him dead as he
sat. At the same time he called his people to seize
Chenchu, and sent a proclamation through the city that
any one found in the streets would be instantly put to
death. The Cathayans saw that the Tartars had dis-
covered the plot, and that they had no longer any leader,
since Vanchu was killed and Chenchu was taken. So
they kept still in their houses, and were unable to pass
the signal for the rising of the other cities as bad been
settled. Cogatai immediately dispatched messengers
to the Great Kaan giving an orderly report of the whole
affair, and the Kaan sent back orders for him to make
a careful investigation, and to punish the guilty as their
misdeeds deserved. In the morning Cogatai examined
all the Cathayans, and put to death a number whom he
found to be ringleaders in the plot. The same thing
was done in the other cities, when it was found that the
plot extended to them also.
2 D 2
VOL. I.
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