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CHAP. LXXIX. CITIES TO TIZE SOUTH OF hINSAY

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manufactures and handicrafts, and have all necessaries

in great plenty and cheapness.'

But there is no more to be said about it, so we

proceed, and I will tell you of another city called Vuju

at three days' distance from Tanpiju. The people are

Idolaters, &c., and the city is under Kinsay. They live

by trade and manufactures.

Travelling through a succession of towns and villages

that look like one continuous city, two days further on to

the south-east, you find the great and fine city of GHIUJu

which is under Kinsay. The people are Idolaters, &c.

They have plenty of silk, and live by trade and handi-

crafts, and have all things necessary in abundance. At

this city you find the largest and longest canes that are

in all Manzi ; they are full four palms in girth and 15

paces in length.2

When you have left Ghiuju you travel four days S.E.

through a beautiful country, in which towns and villages

are very numerous. There is abundance of game both

in beasts and birds ; and there are very large and fierce

lions. After those four days you come to the great and

fine city of CHANSIIAN. I t is situated upon a hill which

divides the River, so that the one portion flows up

country and the other down.* It is still under the

government of Kinsay.

I should tell you that in all the country of Manzi

they have no sheep, though they have beeves and kine,

goats and kids and swine in abundance. The people

are Idolaters here, &c.

When you leave Changshan you travel three days

through a very fine country with many towns and

villages, traders and craftsmen, and abounding in game

of all kinds, and arrive at the city of Cuju. The people

* " Est sus un iront que'Parte le Ilum, que le une moitié ala en sus e l'autre 'moitié' en d'us"

(G. T.).

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