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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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| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2 |
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引用情報
CHAP. LXXVI. THE GREAT CITY OF KINSAY
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which stands a Tower, and at the top of the tower is
hung a slab of wood. Whenever fire or any other alarm
breaks out in the city a man who stands there with a
mallet in his hand beats upon the slab, making a noise that
is heard to a great distance. So when the blows upon this
slab are heard, everybody is aware that fire has broken
out, or that there is some other cause of alarm.
The Kaan watches this city with especial diligence
because it forms the head of all Manzi ; and because he
has an immense revenue from the duties levied on the
transactions of trade therein, the amount of which is such
that no one would credit it on mere hearsay.
All the streets of the city are paved with stone or
brick, as indeed are all the highways throughout Manzi,
so that you ride and travel in every direction without
inconvenience. Were it not for this pavement you could
not do so, for the country is very low and flat, and after
rain 'tis deep in mire and water. [But as the Great
Kaan's couriers could not gallop their horses over the
pavement, the side of the road is left unpaved for their
convenience. The pavement of the main street of the
city also is laid out in two parallel ways of ten paces in
width on either side, leaving a space in the middle laid
with fine gravel, under which are vaulted drains which
convey the rain water into the canals ; and thus the road
is kept ever dry.]
You rhust know also that the city of Kinsay has some
3000 baths, the water of which is supplied by springs.
They are hot baths, and the people take great delight in
them, frequenting them several times a month, for they
are very cleanly in their persons. They are the finest
and largest baths in the world ; large enough for I oo
persons to bathe together.'
And the Ocean Sea comes within 25 miles of the
city at a place called GANFU, where there is .a town and
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