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0221	The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2

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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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CHAP. LYXIII: THE CITY OF CHI I NGHIANFU

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There are in this city two churches of Nestorian

Christians which were established in the year of our

Lord 1278 ; and I will tell you how that happened.

You see, in the year just named, the Great Kaan sent a

Baron of his whose name was MAR SARGHIS, a Nestorian

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Christian, to be governor of this city for three years.

And during the three years that he abode there he

caused these two Christian churches to be built, and since

then there they are. But before his time there was no

church, neither were there any Christians.'

NOTE I.—CHIN-KIANG FU retains its name unchanged. It is one which became well known in the war of 1842. On its capture on the 21st July in that year, the heroic Manchu commandant seated himself,among his records and then set fire to the building, making it his funeral pyre. The city was totally destroyed in the ng wars, but is rapidly recovering its position as a place of native commerce. [Chin-kiang, " a name which may be translated ` River Guard,' stands at the point where the Grand Canal is brought to a junction with the waters of the Yang-tzú when the channel of the river proper begins to expand into an extensive tidal estuary." ( Treaty Ports of China. p. 421.) It was declared open to foreign trade by the Treaty of Tien- Tsin 1858.—II. C.]

Har Sang his (or Dominus Sergius) appears to have been a common name among Armenian and other Oriental Christians. As Pauthier mentions, this very name is

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