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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 | |
| マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2 |
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引用情報
284 MARCO POLO 1300K III.
CHAPTER IX.
CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF JAVA THE LESS. THE KINGDONIS OF FERLEC AND BASMA,
WHEN you leave the Island of Pentam and sail about
I oo miles, you reach the Island of JAVA THE LESS.
For all its name 'tis none so small but that it has a
compass of two thousand miles or more. Now I will
tell you all about this island.'
You see there are upon it eight kingdoms and eight
crowned kings. The people are all Idolaters, and every
kingdom has a language of its own. The Island bath
great abundance of treasure, with costly spices, lign-aloes
and spikenard and many others that never come into our
parts.2
Now I am going to tell you all about these eight
kingdoms, or at least the greater part of them. But let
me premise one marvellous thing, and that is the fact
that this Island lies so far to the south that the North
Star, little or much, is never to be seen !
Now let us resume our subject, and first I will tell
you of the kingdom of FERLEC.
This kingdom, you must know, is so much frequented
by the Saracen merchants that they have converted the
natives to the Law of 1V7a ommet I mean the towns-
people only, for the hill-people live for all the world like
beasts, and eat human flesh, as well as all other kinds of
flesh, clean or unclean. And they worship this, that, and
the other thing ; for in fact the first thing that they see
on rising in the morning, that they do worship for the
rest of the day.3
Having told you of the kingdom of Ferlec, I will
now tell of another which is called BASMA.
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