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| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2 |
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引用情報
BOOK II.
24
MARCO POLO
CHAPTER XLI.
CONCERNING THE CITY OF KENJANFU.
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AND wheny ou leave the city of Cachanfu of which I
have spoken, and travel eight days westward, you meet
with cities and boroughs abounding in trade and industry,
and quantities of beautiful trees, and gardens, and fine
plains planted with mulberries, which are the trees Ön
the leaves of which the silkworms do feed.' The people
are all Idolaters. There is also plenty of game of all
sorts, both of beasts and birds.
And when you have travelled those eight days'
journey, you come to that great city which I mentioned,
called KENJANFU.2 A very great and fine city it is, and
the capital of the kingdom of Kenjanfu, which in old
times was a noble, rich, and powerful realm, and had
many great and wealthy and puissant kings.' But now
the king thereof is a prince called MANGALAI, the son
of the Great Kaan, who bath given him this realm, and
crowned hire king thereof.4 It is a city of great trade
and industry. They have great abundance of silk, from
which they weave cloths of silk and gold of divers kinds,
and they also manufacture all sorts of equipments for an
army. They have every necessary of man's life very
cheap. The city lies towards the west ; the people are
Idolaters ; and outside the city is the palace of the
Prince Mangalai, crowned king, and son of the Great
Kaan, as I told you before.
This is a fine palace and a great, as I will tell you.
It stands in a great plain abounding in lakes and streams
and springs of water. Round about it is a massive and
lofty wall, five miles in compass, well built, and all
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