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国立情報学研究所 - ディジタル・シルクロード・プロジェクト
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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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引用情報
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I 88 MARCO POLO BooK II.
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time-keeper to enable them to know the hour of the day
or night. And so when one hour of the night is past
the sentry strikes one on the wooden instrument and on
the basin, so that the whole quarter of the city is made
aware that one hour of the night is gone. At the second
hour he gives two strokes, and so on, keeping always
wide awake and on the look out. In the morning again,
from the sunrise, they begin to count anew, and strike
one hour as they did in the night, and so on hour after
hour.
Part of the watch patrols the quarter, to see if any
light or fire is burning after the lawful hours ; if they
find any they mark the door, and in the morning the
owner is summoned before the magistrates, and unless he
can plead a good excuse he is punished. Also if they
find any one going about the streets at unlawful hours
they arrest him, and in the morning they bring him before
the magistrates. Likewise if in the daytime they find
any poor cripple unable to work for his livelihood, they
take him to one of the hospitals, of which there are
many, founded by the ancient kings, and endowed with
great revenues. Or if he be capable of work they oblige
him to take up some trade. If they see that any house
has caught fire they immediately beat upon that wooden
instrument to give the alarm, and this brings together
the watchmen from the other bridges to help to extin-
guish it, and to save the goods of the merchants or others,
either by removing them to the towers above mentioned,
or by putting them in boats and transporting them to the
islands in the lake. For no citizen dares leave his house
at night, or to come clear the fire ; only those who own
the property, and those watchmen who flock to help, of
whom there shall come one or two thousand at the
least.]
Moreover, within the city there is an eminence on
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