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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2 |
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引用情報
Boox II.
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was. And when he had completed all his arrangements
he began to advance to engage the enemy. The Tartars,
seeing the foe advance, showed no dismay, but came
on likewise with good order and discipline to meet
them. And when they were near and nought remained
but to begin the fight, the horses of the Tartars took
such fright at the sight of the elephants, that they could
not be got to face the foe, but always swerved and
turned back ; whilst all the time the king and his
forces, and all his elephants, continued to advance upon
them.'
And when the Tartars perceived how the case stood,
they were in great wrath, and wist not what to say or do ;
for well enough they saw that unless they could get their
horses to advance, all would be lost. But their Captain
acted like a wise leader who had considered everything
beforehand. He immediately gave orders that every
man should dismount and tie his horse to the trees of the
forest that stood hard by, and that then they should take
to their bows, a weapon that they know how to handle
better than any troops in the world. They did as he
bade them, and plied their bows stoutly, shooting so
many shafts at the advancing elephants that in a short
space they had wounded or slain the greater part of them
as well as of the men they carried. The enemy also shot
at the Tartars, but the Tartars had the better weapons,
and were the better archers to boot.
And what shall I tell you ? Understand that when
the elephants felt the smart of those arrows thatp elted
them like rain, they turned tail and fled, and nothing on
earth would have induced them to turn and face the
Tartars. So off they sped with such a noise and
uproar that you would have trowed the world was coming
to an end ! And then too they plunged into the wood
and rushed this way and that, dashing their castles
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