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MARCO POLO BooK II.
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for the city is the seat of government for this part of the
country. Owing to its being on the river, many cities
send their produce thither to be again thence distributed
in every direction. A great amount of salt also is made
here, furnishing some forty other cities with that article,
and bringing in a large revenue to the Great Kaan.l
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NOTE I.—Coiganju is HWAI-NGAN CHAU, now -Fu, on the canal, some miles south of the channel of the Hwang-Ho ; but apparently in Polo's time the great river passed close to it. Indeed, the city takes its name from the River Hwai, into which the Hwang-Ho sent a branch when first seeking a discharge south of Shantung. The city extends for about 3 miles along the canal and much below its level. [According to Sir J. F. Davis, the situation of Hwai-ngan " is in every respect remarkable. A part of the town was so much bélow the level of the canal, that only the tops of the walls (at least 25 feet high) could be seen from our boats. . . .
It proved to be, next to Tien-tsin, by far the largest and most populous place we had yet seen, the capital itself excepted." (Sketches of China, I. pp. 277-278.)--H. C.] The headquarters of the salt manufacture of Hwai-ngan is a place called Yen-ching (" Salt-Town "), some distance to the S. of the former city (Pauthier).
CH-APTER LXVII.
OF THE CITIES OF PAUKIN AND CAYU.
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WREN you leave Coiganju you ride south-east for a day
along a causeway laid with fine stone, which you find
at this entrance to Manzi. On either hand there is . a
great expanse of water, so that you cannot enter the
province except along this causeway. At the end of the
day's journey you reach the fine city of PAUKIN. The
people are Idolaters, burn their dead, are subject to the
Great Kaan, and use paper-money. They live by trade
and manufactures and have great abundance of silk,
whereof they weave a great variety of fine stuffs of silk
and gold. Of all the necessaries of life there is great
store.
When you leave Paukin you ride another day to the
south-east, and then you arrive at the city of CAW.
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