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0184 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 184 (Grayscale High Resolution Image)

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On leaving Siju you ride south for three days, con-
stantly falling in with fine towns and villages and hamlets
and farms, with their cultivated lands. There is plenty
of wheat and other corn, and of game also; and the
people are all Idolaters and subjects of the Great Kaan.

At the end of those three days you reach the great
river Caramoran, which flows hither from Prester John's
country. It is a great river, and more than a mile in
width, and so deep that great ships can navigate it. It
abounds in fish, and very big ones too. You must know
that in this river there are some 15,000 vessels, all
belonging to the Great Kaan, and kept to transport his
troops to the Indian Isles whenever there may be
occasion; for the sea is only one day distant from the
place we are speaking of. And each of these vessels,
taking one with another, will require 20 mariners, and will
carry 15 horses with the men belonging to them, and
their provisions, arms, and equipments.²

Hither and thither, on either bank of the river, stands
a town; the one facing the other. The one is called
Coiganju and the other Caiju; the former is a large
place, and the latter a little one. And when you pass
this river you enter the great province of Manzi. So
now I must tell you how this province of Manzi was
conquered by the Great Kaan.³