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FB Lingiu he goes riding three days journeys by midday, and all the way FB L finds cities and villages enough which are rich and good. They are all L Z VB FB in the province of Catai, and the people are •everywhere idolaters and also have their dead
L FB TA said city of Pingiu he goes riding •through Catai two days journeys by
L v in all good things, where there is very good hunting enough of all kinds of wild FB beasts and of birds. And at the end of these two days journeys one finds the city of FB Ciugiu which is very great and rich and noble both in trade and in crafts. The people z FB of it are idolaters and have their dead bodies burnt in the fire. And their money is vB v v of notes of the great Kaan, and they are subject to the rule of the great Kaan. And this city is in a fair province, and it has exceedingly beautiful plains and beautiful VB fields and they have great abundance of all good fruits and of wheat and of all grains, but other things which it does to mention there are none. And so we will leave it
L FB z farms very well cultivated. both of lands and of fields,2 with beautiful hunting and chase z FB TA FB enough, and they have .great abundance of wheat and of all grains, as those above. . And FB they are idolaters and are subject to the great Kaan. And their money they have of | |||||
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