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CHAP. XLIII. THE PROVINCE OF ACBALEC MANZI
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is much struck with the perils of walking on the side of a precipice, with the foaming river below. When the timbers rot, such passages of course become obstructed, and e thus the road is said to have been periodically in complete disuse. The repairs, which were chiefly made in the time of the Ming, concerned especially passages of this sort." Richthofen also notices the abundance of game ; but inhabited places appear to be rarer than in Polo's time. (See Martini in Blacu ; Clime Ancienne, p. 234 ; Ritter, Iv. 520 ; D'OlzSSOn, II. 22) So, 328 ; Leconte, II. 95 ; Chin. Rep. XIX. 225 ; Richthofen, Letter VII. p. 42, and MS. Notes.)
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CHAPTER XLIII.
CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ACBALEC MANZI.
AFTER you have travelled those 20 days through the
mountains of CUNCUN that I have mentioned, then you
come to a province called ACBAI,EC MANZI, which is all
level country, with plenty of towns and villages, and
belongs to the Great Kaan. The people are Idolaters,
and live by trade and industry. I may tell you that in
this province, there grows such a great quantity of ginger,
that it is carried all over the region of Cathay, and it affords
a maintenance to all the people of the province, who get
great gain thereby. They have also wheat and rice, and
other kinds of corn, in great plenty and cheapness ; in
fact the country abounds in all useful products. The
capital city is called ACBALEC MANZI [which signifies
" the White City of the Manzi Frontier"].1
This plain extends for two days' journey, throughout
which it is as fine as I have told you, with towns and
villages as numerous. After those two days, you again
come to great mountains and valleys, and extensive
forests, and you continue to travel westward through
this kind of country for 20 days, finding however
numerous towns and villages. The people are Idolaters,
and live by agriculture, by cattle-keeping, and by the
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