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0303 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
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BOOK III.

CHAPTER I.

OF THE MERCHANT SHIPS OF MANZI THAT SAIL UPON THE INDIAN SEAS.

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HAVING finished our discourse concerning those countries

wherewith our Book hath been occupied thus far, we are

now about to enter on the subject of INDIA, and to tell

you of all the wonders thereof.

And first let us speak of the ships in which merchants

go to and fro amongst the Isles of India.

These ships, you must know, are of fir timber.1 They

have but one deck, though each of them contains some

5o or 6o cabins, wherein the merchants abide greatly at

their ease, every man having one to himself. The ship

bath but one rudder, but it hath four masts ; and some-

times they have two additional masts, which they ship

and unship at pleasure.'

[Moreover the larger of their vessels have some

thirteen compartments or severances in the interior, made

with planking strongly framed, in case mayhap the ship

should spring a leak, either by running on a rock or by ,

the blow of a hungry whale (as shall betide ofttimes, for

when the ship in her course by night sends a ripple back

alongside of the whale, the creature seeing the foam

fancies there is something to eat afloat, and makes a rush

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