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0376 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
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320   MARCO POLO   BOOK III.

and presented themselves before the king. And they

were so urgent with him that they succeeded in getting

two of the grinder teeth, which were passing great and

thick ; and they also got some of the hair, and the dish

from which that personage used to eat, which is of a

very beautiful green porphyry. And when the Great

Kaan's ambassadors had attained the object for which

they had come they were greatly rejoiced, and returned to

their lord. And when they drew near to the great city

of Cambaluc, where the Great Kaan was staying, they

sent him word that they had brought back that for

which he had sent them. On learning this the Great

Kaan was passing glad, and ordered all the ecclesiastics

and others to go forth to meet these reliques, which he

was led to believe were those of Adam.

And why should I make a long story of it ? In sooth,

the whole population of Cambaluc went forth to meet

those reliques, and the ecclesiastics took them over and

carried them to the Great Kaan, who received them

with great joy and reverence.' And they find it written

in their Scriptures that the virtue of that dish is such

that if food for one man be put therein it shall become

enough for five men : and the Great Kaan averred that

he had proved the thing and found that it was really

true.?

So now you have heard how the Great Kaan came

by those reliques ; and a mighty great treasure it did

cost him ! The reliques being, according to the

Idolaters, those of that king's son.

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NO'T'E I.—Saçalzzojzi Borcan is, as Marsden points out, SAKYA-MUNI, or Gautama-Buddha, with the affix BURKHAN, or " Divinity," which is used by the Mongols as the synonym of Buddha.

" The Dewa of Samantakúta (Adam's Peak), Samana, having heard of the arrival of Budha (in Lanka or Ceylon) . . . presented a request that he would leave an impression of his foot upon the mountain of which he was guardian. . . . In the midst of the assembled Dewas, Budha, looking towards the East, made the impression of his foot, in length three inches less than the cubit of the carpenter ; and the iru•

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