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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 |
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Citation Information
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CHAP. III. THE INVASION OF JAPAN
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The Chinese Annals, in De Mailla, state that the Japanese spared io,000 or 12,000 of the Southern Chinese, whom they retained as slaves. Gaubil says that
30,000 Mongols were put to death, whilst 70,000 Coreans and Chinese were made slaves.
Kúblái was loth to put up with this huge discomfiture, and in 1283 he made preparations for another expedition ; hut the project excited strong discontent ; so strong that some Buddhist monks whom he sent before to collect information, were
Japanese in fight with Chinese. (After Siebold, from an ancient Japanese drawing.)
ensint abrnt re$te .eztoire be la becontítitte be Uz Benz &.n Grant 1aan."
thrown overboard by the Chinese sailors ; and he gave it up. (De Mailla, IX. 409 ; 418, 428 ; Gaubil, 195 ; Deguignes, III. 177.)
The Abacan of Polo is probably the Asikan of the Japanese, whom Gaubil calls tir an. Vonsainchin is perhaps Fan Wen-hu with the Chinese title of Tsiang-Kiun ïun or General (elsewhere represented in Polo by Sangon),—FAN TSIANG-KIUN.
We see that, as usual, whilst Marco's account in some of the main features concurs with that of the histories, he gives a good many additional particulars, some
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