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0215 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2
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vessels in the year, without counting those that passed
down! [Indeed as it has a course of such great length,
and receives so many other navigable rivers, it is no
wonder that the merchandize which is borne on it is of
vast amount and value. And the article in largest quan-
tity of all is salt, which is carried by this river and its
branches to all the cities on their banks, and thence to
the other cities in the interior.³]

The vessels which ply on this river are decked.
They have but one mast, but they are of great burthen,
for I can assure you they carry (reckoning by our weight)
from 4000 up to 12,000 cantars each.⁴

Now we will quit this matter and I will tell you of
another city called Caiju. But first I must mention a
point I had forgotten. You must know that the vessels
on this river, in going up-stream have to be tracked, for
the current is so strong that they could not make head
in any other manner. Now the tow-line, which is some
300 paces in length, is made of nothing but cane. 'Tis
in this way: they have those great canes of which I
told you before that they are some fifteen paces in length;
these they take and split from end to end [into many
slender strips], and then they twist these strips together
so as to make a rope of any length they please. And
the ropes so made are stronger than if they were made
of hemp.⁵

[There are at many places on this river hills and
rocky eminences on which the idol-monasteries and
other edifices are built; and you find on its shores a
constant succession of villages and inhabited places.⁶