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0182 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2
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MARCO POLO   POOK II.

or platforms, before the principal boats had ornamental gateways over them. . . . The canal seems to render this an opulent and flourishing place, to judge by th e gilded and carved shops, temples, and public offices, along the eastern banks."

(Sketches of China, I. pp. 255-257.)H. C.]

CHAPTER LXIII.

CONCERNING THE CITIES OF LINJU AND PIJU.

ON leaving the city of Sinju-matu you travel for eight

days towards the south, always coming to great and rich

towns and villages flourishing with trade and manu-

factures. The people are all subjects of the Great Kaan,

use paper-money, and burn their dead. At the end of

those eight days you come to the city of LIN Ju, in the

province of the same name of which it is the capital.

It is a rich and noble city, and the men are good

soldiers, natheless they carry on great trade and manu-

factures. There is great abundance of game in both

beasts and birds, and all the necessaries of life are in

profusion. The place stands on the river of which I told

you above. And they have here great numbers of

vessels, even greater than those of which I spoke

before, and these transport a great amount of costly

merchandize.1

So, quitting this province and city of Linju, you

travel three days more towards the south, constantly

finding numbers of rich towns and villages. These still

belong to Cathay ; and the people are all Idolaters,

burning their dead, and using paper-money, that I mean

of their Lord the Great Kaan, whose subjects they are.

This is the finest country for game, whether in beasts or

birds, that is anywhere to be found, and all the

necessaries of life are in profusion.

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