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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
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MARCO POLO Boob IV.
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multitudes of the Pharaoh's rat, on which the people live
all the summer time. Indeed they have plenty of all
sorts of wild creatures, for the country they inhabit is
very wild and trackless.'
And you must know that this King possesses one
tract of country which is quite impassable for horses, for
it abounds greatly in lakes and springs, and hence there
is so much ice as well as mud and mire, that horses
cannot travel over it. This difficult country is 13 days
in extent, and at the end of every day's journey there is
a post for the lodgment of the couriers who have to cross
this tract. At each of these post-houses they keep some
40 dogs of great size, in fact not much smaller than
donkeys, and these dogs draw the couriers over the day's
journey from post-house to post-house, and I will tell you
how. You see the ice and mire are so prevalent, that
over this tract, which lies for those 13 days' journey in a
great valley between two mountains, no horses (as I
told you) can travel, nor can any wheeled carriage either.
Wherefore they make sledges, which are carriages with-
out
wheels, and made so that they can run over the ice,
and also over mire and mud without sinking too deep in
it. Of these sledges indeed there are many in our own
country, for 'tis just such that are used in winter
for carrying hay and straw when there have been heavy
rains and the country is deep in mire. On such a
sledge then they lay a bear-skin on which the courier
sits, and the sledge is drawn by six of those big clogs that
I dogs spoke of. The dos have no driver, but go straight
P go straight
the next post-house, drawing the sledge famously
over ice and mire. The keeper of the post-house how-
ever also gets on a sledge drawn by dogs, and guides the
party by the best and shortest way. And when they
arrive at the next station they find a new relay of dogs
and sledges ready to take them on, whilst the old relay
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