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0115 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2
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doi: 10.20676/00000269
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torture, to avoid this they swallow the poison and so
die speedily. But princes who are aware of this keep
ready dog's dung, which they cause the criminal in-
stantly to swallow, to make him vomit the poison. And
thus they manage to cure those scoundrels.]

I will tell you of a wicked thing they used to do
before the Great Kaan conquered them. If it chanced
that a man of fine person or noble birth, or some other
quality that recommended him, came to lodge with those
people, then they would murder him by poison, or other-
wise. And this they did, not for the sake of plunder, but
because they believed that in this way the goodly favour
and wisdom and repute of the murdered man would cleave
to the house where he was slain. And in this manner
many were murdered before the country was conquered
by the Great Kaan. But since his conquest, some 35
years ago, these crimes and this evil practice have pre-
vailed no more; and this through dread of the Great
Kaan who will not permit such things.⁸