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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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MARCO POLO I3ooK III.
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CHAPTER XXXI.
DISCOURSETH OF THE TWO ISLANDS CALLED MALE AND FEMALE, AND WHY THEY ARE SO CALLED.
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1~1110 ~ ;
WHEN you leave this kingdom of Kesmacoran, which is
on the mainland, you go by sea some 500 miles towards
the south ; and then you find the two Islands, MALE and
FEMALE, lying about 3o miles distant from one another.
The people are all baptized Christians, but maintain the
ordinances of the Old Testament ; thus when their wives
are with child they never go near them till their confine-
ment, or for forty days thereafter.
In the Island however which is called Male, dwell
the men alone, without their wives or any other women.
Every year when the month of March arrives the men
all set out for the other Island, and tarry there for three
months, to wit, March, April, May, dwelling with their
wives for that space. At the end of those three months
they return to their own Island, and pursue their
husbandry and trade for the other nine months.
They find on this Island very fine ambergris. They
live on flesh and milk and rice. They are capital fisher-
men, and catch a great quantity of fine large sea-fish, and
these they dry, so that all the year they have plenty of
food, and also enough to sell to the traders who go
thither. They have no chief except a bishop, who is
subject to the archbishop of another Island, of which we
shall presently speak, called SCOTRA. They have also a
peculiar language.
As for the children which their wives bear to them,
if they be girls they abide with their mothers ; but if they
be boys the mothers bring them up till they are fourteen,
and then send them to the fathers. Such is the custom
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