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CHAP. LXVIII. MARCO'S GOVERNMENT OF VANJU T 53
The people are Idolaters (and so forth). They live by
trade and manufactures and have great store of all
necessaries, including fish in great abundance. There
is also much game, both beast and bird, insomuch that
for a Venice groat you can have three good pheasants.'
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NOTE i.—Paukin is PAO-PING-Hien [a populous place, considerably below the level of the canal (Davis, Sketches, I. pp. 279-280)] ; Cayu is KA0-Yu-chau, both cities on the east side of the canal. At Kao-yu, the country east of the canal lies some 20 feet below the canal level ; so low indeed that the walls of the city are not visible from the further bank of the canal. To the west is the Kao-vu Lake, one of the expanses of water spoken of by Marco, and which threatens great danger to the low country on the east. (See Alabaster'sJou;nev in Consular Reports above quoted, p. 5 [and Gaizdar, Canal impérial, p. 17.—H. C.])
There is a fine drawing of Pao-ying, by Alexander, in the Staunton collection, British Museum.
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CHAPTER LXVIII.
OF THE CITIES OF Tiju) TINJU, AND YANJU.
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\VIIEN you leave Cayu, you ride another day to the
south-east through a constant succession of villages and
fields and fine farms until you come to TI Ju, which is a
city of no great size but abounding in everything. The
people are Idolaters (and so forth). There is a great
amount of trade, and they have many vessels. And you
must know that on your left hand, that is towards the
east, and three days' journey distant, is the Ocean Sea.
At every place between the sea and the city salt is made
in great quantities. And there is a rich and noble city
called TINJU, at which there is produced salt enough to
supply the whole province, and I can tell you it brings
the Great Kaan an incredible revenue. The people are
Idolaters and subject to the Kaan. Let us quit this,
however, and go back to Tiju.'
Again, leaving Tiju, you ride another day towards
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