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0071 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2
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quantities of merchandize also which merchants carry up
and down this river are past all belief. In fact, it is so
big, that it seems to be a Sea rather than a River!²

Let us now speak of a great Bridge which crosses this
River within the city. This bridge is of stone; it is
seven paces in width and half a mile in length (the river
being that much in width as I told you); and all along
its length on either side there are columns of marble to
bear the roof, for the bridge is roofed over from end to
end with timber, and that all richly painted. And on
this bridge there are houses in which a great deal of trade
and industry is carried on. But these houses are all of
wood merely, and they are put up in the morning and
taken down in the evening. Also there stands upon the
bridge the Great Kaan's Comercque, that is to say, his
custom-house, where his toll and tax are levied.³ And
I can tell you that the dues taken on this bridge bring to
the Lord a thousand pieces of fine gold every day and
more. The people are all Idolaters.⁴

When you leave this city you travel for five days
across a country of plains and valleys, finding plenty of
villages and hamlets, and the people of which live by
husbandry. There are numbers of wild beasts, lions,
and bears, and such like.

I should have mentioned that the people of Sindu
itself live by manufactures, for they make fine sendals
and other stuffs.⁵

After travelling those five days' march, you reach a
province called Tebet, which has been sadly laid waste;
we will now say something of it.