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Citation Information
36
BOOK IL
MARCO POLO
CHAPTER XLIV.
CONCERNING THE PROVINCE AND CITY OF SINDAFU.
WHEN you have travelled those 20 days westward
through the mountains, as I have told you, then you
arrive at a plain belonging to a province called Sindafu,
which still is on the confines of Manzi, and the capital
city of which i4 (also) called SINDAFU. This city was in
former clays a rich and noble one, and the Kings who
reigned there were very great and wealthy. It is a good
twenty miles in compass, but it is divided in the way
that I shall tell you.
You see the King of this Province, in the days of
old, when he found himself drawing near to death,
leaving three sons behind him, commanded that the city
should be divided into three parts, and that each of his
three sons should have one. So each of these three parts
is separately walled about, though all three are surrounded
by the common wall of the city. Each of the three sons
was King, having his own part of the city, and his own
share of the kingdom, and each of them in fact was a great
and wealthy King. But the Great Kaan conquered the
kingdom of these three Kings, and stripped them of their
inheritance.'
Through the midst of this great city runs a large
river, in which they catch a great quantity of fish. It is
a good half mile wide, and very deep withal, and so long
that it reaches all the way to the Ocean Sea, —a very
long way, equal to 8o or Ioo days' journey. And the
name of the River is KIAN-SUy. The multitude of
vessels that navigate this river is so vast, that no one
who should read or hear the tale would believe it. The
wimp •,,• Amok ...:.,..
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