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0067 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
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CHAP. XLIII.   THE PROVINCE OF ACBALEC MANZI

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is much struck with the perils of walking on the side of a precipice, with the foaming river below. When the timbers rot, such passages of course become obstructed, and e thus the road is said to have been periodically in complete disuse. The repairs, which were chiefly made in the time of the Ming, concerned especially passages of this sort." Richthofen also notices the abundance of game ; but inhabited places appear to be rarer than in Polo's time. (See Martini in Blacu ; Clime Ancienne, p. 234 ; Ritter, Iv. 520 ; D'OlzSSOn, II. 22) So, 328 ; Leconte, II. 95 ; Chin. Rep. XIX. 225 ; Richthofen, Letter VII. p. 42, and MS. Notes.)

CHAPTER XLIII.

CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ACBALEC MANZI.

AFTER you have travelled those 20 days through the

mountains of CUNCUN that I have mentioned, then you

come to a province called ACBAI,EC MANZI, which is all

level country, with plenty of towns and villages, and

belongs to the Great Kaan. The people are Idolaters,

and live by trade and industry. I may tell you that in

this province, there grows such a great quantity of ginger,

that it is carried all over the region of Cathay, and it affords

a maintenance to all the people of the province, who get

great gain thereby. They have also wheat and rice, and

other kinds of corn, in great plenty and cheapness ; in

fact the country abounds in all useful products. The

capital city is called ACBALEC MANZI [which signifies

" the White City of the Manzi Frontier"].1

This plain extends for two days' journey, throughout

which it is as fine as I have told you, with towns and

villages as numerous. After those two days, you again

come to great mountains and valleys, and extensive

forests, and you continue to travel westward through

this kind of country for 20 days, finding however

numerous towns and villages. The people are Idolaters,

and live by agriculture, by cattle-keeping, and by the

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