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0183 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
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CIIAr. LXIV.   LI N J U, PIJU, AND SIJ U

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At the end of those three days you find the city of

Piju, a great, rich, and noble city, with large trade and

manufactures, and a great production of silk. This

city stands at the entrance to the great province of

Manzi, and there reside at it a great number of merchants

who despatch carts from this place loaded with great

quantities of goods to the different towns of Manzi.

The city brings in a great revenue to the Great Kaan.2

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NOTE I.—Murray suggests that Lingiu is a place which appears in D'Anville's Map of Shan-tung as Lintching y, and in Arrowsmith's Map of China (also in those of Bergbaus and Keith Johnston) as LiHkhinghicn. The position assigned to it, however, on the west bank of the canal, nearly under the 35th degree of latitude, would agree fairly with Polo's data. [Lin-ch'in„ Lin-tsinJ, lat. 37° 03', Plaffair's Diet. No. 4276 ; Biot, p. 1o7.—H. C.]

In any case, I imagine Lingiu (of which, perhaps, Lingin may be the correct reading) to be the Lenzin of Odoric, which he reached in travelling by water from the south, before arriving at Sinjumatu. (Cathay, p. 125.)

NOTE 2.—There can be no doubt that this iS PEI-CHAD on the east bank of the canal. The abundance of game about here is noticed by Nieuhoff (in Astley, III. 417). [See D. Ganda-, Canal Imperial, 1894.—H. C.]

CHAPTER LXIV.

CONCERNING THE CITY OF SIJU, AND THE GREAT RIVER CARAMORAN.

WHEN you leave Piju you travel towards the south

for two days, through beautiful districts abounding in

everything, and in which you find quantities of all kinds

of game. At the end of those two days you reach the

city of SIJU, a great, rich, and noble city, flourishing

with -trade and manufactures. The people are Idolaters,

burn their dead, use paper-money, and are subjects of

the Great Kaan. They possess extensive and fertile plains

producing abundance of wheat and other grain.' But

there is nothing else to mention, so let us proceed and

tell you of the countries further on.