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tongue, or the tongue alone. The devil-dancer is now worshipped as a present deity, and every bystander consults him respecting his diseases, his wants, the welfare of his absent relatives, the offerings to be made for the accomplishment of his wishes, and in short everything for which superhuman knowledge is supposed to be available." (Hodgson, J. R. As. Soc. XVIII. 397 ; The Tinnevelly Shaizars, by the Rev. R. Caldwell, B.A., Madras, 1849, pp. 19-2o.)
CHAPTER LI.
WHEREIN IS RELATED HOW THE KING OF MIEN AND BANGALA VOWED VENGEANCE AGAINST THE GREAT KAAN.
BUT I was forgetting to tell you of a famous battle that
was fought in the kingdom of Vochan in the Province of
Zardandan, and that ought not to be omitted from our
Book. So we will relate all the particulars.
You see, in the year of Christ, 1272,1 the Great Kaan
sent a large force into the kingdoms of Carajan and
Vochan, to protect them from the ravages of ill-disposed
people ; and this was before he had sent any of his sons
to rule the country, as he did afterwards when he made
Sentemur king there, the son of a son of his who was
deceased.
Now there was a certain king, called the king of MIEN
and of BANGALA, who was a very puissant prince, with
much territory and treasure and people ; and he was not
as yet subject to the Great Kaan, though it was not long
after that the latter conquered him and took from him
both the kingdoms that I have named.' And it came to
pass that when this king of Mien and Bangala heard
that the host of the Great Kaan was at Vochan, he said
to himself that it behoved him to go against them with
so great a force as should insure his cutting off the whole
of them, insomuch that the Great Kaan would be very
sorry ever to send an army again thither [to his frontier].
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