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0284 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.2
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But few trees are met with ; a banyan here and there, but no camphor-trees along
this route ; but there is one extremely interesting feature on it that would strike the
most unobservant traveller, viz. : the Loyang bridge, one of the wonders of China."
Had Polo travelled by this route, he would certainly have mentioned it. Pauthier
remarks upon Polo's silence in this matter : "It is surprising," says he, "that Marco
Polo makes no mention of it."—H. C.]

Note 2. — The G. T. reads Caiton, presumably for Çaiton or Zayton. In
Pauthier's text, in the following chapter, the name of Zayton is written Çaiton and
Çayton, and the name of that port appears in the same form in the Letter of its
Bishop, Andrew of Perugia, quoted in note 2, ch. lxxxii. Pauthier, however, in this
place reads Kayteu, which he developes into a port at the mouth of the River Min.*

Note 3.—The Min, the River of Fu-chau, "varies much in width and depth.
Near its mouth, and at some other parts, it is not less than a mile in width, elsewhere
deep and rapid." It is navigable for ships of large size 20 miles from the mouth, and
for good-sized junks thence to the great bridge. The scenery is very fine, and is com-
pared to that of the Hudson. (Fortune, I. 281 ; Chin. Repos. XVI. 483.)

CHAPTER LXXXII.

Of the City and Great Haven of Zayton.

Now when you quit Fuju and cross the River, you travel
for five days south-east through a fine country, meeting
with a constant succession of flourishing cities, towns,
and villages, rich in every product. You travel by
mountains and valleys and plains, and in some places
by great forests in which are many of the trees which
give Camphor.¹ There is plenty of game on the road,
both of bird and beast. The people are all traders and
craftsmen, subjects of the Great Kaan, and under the
government of Fuju. When you have accomplished
those five days' journey you arrive at the very great and
noble city of Zayton, which is also subject to Fuju.

At this city you must know is the Haven of Zayton,
frequented by all the ships of India, which bring thither
spicery and all other kinds of costly wares. It is the
port also that is frequented by all the merchants of