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0311 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2
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CHAP. II.   THE ISLAND OIS'' CHIPANGU

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with the purest gold." (4 U in. conic. les Chinozs, XIV. 55.) See also a like story in Kaempfer. (H. clujapon, I. 139.)

NOTE 4. —Kaempfer speaks of pearls being found in considerable numbers, chiefly about Satsuma, and in the Gulf of Omura, in Kiusiu. From what Alcock

Ancient Japa;iese Archer. (From a Native Drawing.)

says they do not seem now to be abundant. (Ib. I. 95 ; Alcock, I. 200.) No precious stones are mentioned by Kaempfer.

Rose-tinted pearls are frequent among the Scotch pearls, and, according to Mr. King, those of this tint are of late the most highly esteemed in Paris. Such pearls were perhaps also most highly esteemed in old India ; for red pearls (Lolaitamuktí) form one of the seven precious objects which it was incumbent to use in the adornment of Buddhistic reliquaries, and to distribute at the building of a

Dagoba. (Nat. Hist. of Prec. Stones, etc., 263 ; h oelpen, I. 541.)

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