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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. LXXX. THE KINGDOM OF FUJU
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abundance of game. Lions, great and strong, are also
very numerous. The country produces ginger and
galingale in immense quantities, insomuch that for a
Venice groat you may buy fourscore pounds of good
fine-flavoured ginger. They have also a kind of fruit
resembling saffron, and which serves the purpose of
saffron just as well.'
And you must know the people eat all manner of
unclean things, even the flesh of a man, provided he has
not died a natural death. So they look out for the
bodies of those that have been put to death and eat
their flesh, which they consider excellent.'
Those who go to war in those parts do as I am going
to tell you. They shave the hair off the forehead and
cause it to be painted in blue like the blade of a glaive.
They all go afoot except the chief ; they carry spears
and swords, and are the most savage people in the
world, for they go about constantly killing people, whose
blood they drink, and then devour the bodies.
Now I will quit this and speak of other matters.
You must know then that after going three days out of
the six that I told you of you come to the city of
KELINFU, a very great and noble city, belonging to the
Great Kaan. This city bath three stone bridges which
are among the finest and best in the world. They are a
mile long and some nine paces in width, and they are
all decorated with rich marble columns. Indeed they are
such fine and marvellous works that to build any one of
them must have cost a treasure.4
The people live by trade and manufactures, and have
great store of silk [which they weave into various stuffs],
and of ginger and galingale.5 [They also make much
cotton cloth of dyed thread, which is sent all over Manzi.]
Their women are particularly beautiful. And there is a
strange thing there which I needs must tell you. You
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