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0183 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
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At the end of those three days you find the city of
Piju, a great, rich, and noble city, with large trade and
manufactures, and a great production of silk. This
city stands at the entrance to the great province of
Manzi, and there reside at it a great number of merchants
who despatch carts from this place loaded with great
quantities of goods to the different towns of Manzi.
The city brings in a great revenue to the Great Kaan.²

CHAPTER LXIV.

Concerning the City of Siju, and the Great River Caramoran.

When you leave Piju you travel towards the south
for two days, through beautiful districts abounding in
everything, and in which you find quantities of all kinds
of game. At the end of those two days you reach the
city of Siju, a great, rich, and noble city, flourishing
with trade and manufactures. The people are Idolaters,
burn their dead, use paper-money, and are subjects of
the Great Kaan. They possess extensive and fertile plains
producing abundance of wheat and other grain.¹ But
there is nothing else to mention, so let us proceed and
tell you of the countries further on.