The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2

as elsewhere, there be some of the Idols that have the head of an ox, some that have the head of a pig, some of a dog, some of a s

heir Idols in so many different guises, and not all alike, they reply that just so their forefathers were wont to have them made, and just so they will leave them to their children, and these to the after generations. And

n enemy who cannot pay a ransom, he who hath the prisoner summons all his friends and relations, and they put the prisoner to death, and then the

re be 7459 Islands in the waters frequented by the said mariners; and that is how they know the fact, for their whole life is spent in navigating that sea. And there is not one of those Islands but produces valuable and odorous woods like the lignaloe, aye and better too; and they produce also a great variety of spices. For example in those Islands grows pepper a

w, the one that carries them outward and the other that brings them homeward; and the one of these winds blows all the winter, and t

ut just as in these parts people talk of the Sea of England and the Sea of Rochelle, so in those countries the

way. Moreover, Messer Marco Polo never was there. And let me tell you the Great

and take up the order of our

ds; some have three eyes.... Some are represented in the Indian manner with a multiplic

rticular form of idolat

hich Marco was familiar,

repugnant to the more

ut

ite?vara, with four hands, of which two were always folded across the breast! The same Bodhisatva is sometimes represented with eleven heads. Manjushri manifests

easterly Islands of the Archipelago, such as the Philippines

language of those Isles means Manzi." In fact, though the form Chin is more correctly Persian, we do get th

es of its parts is nearly a version of a passage

re

peridédrome

met' andrásin ounóm

is the sea which flows

of the countries it was

n ... the part west of t

Sea of Fárs, the Sea of

olzum" (

kward way in which it comes in to be a very manifest interpolation

rly spoken of. Within this Gulf there are innumerable Islands, almost all well-peopled; and in these is found a great quantity of gold-dust, which is collected from the sea where the rivers discharge. There is copper also, and other things; and the people drive a trade with each other in the things that are peculiar to their r

ne Islands, etc.; but, as a matter of fact, it seems clearly to indicate the writer's conception as of a great g

heinan, i.e. Heinan, ma

as I rather incline to

amoens, writing at Macao

wn sea (though this perha

hetic sp

costa, que C

do pao chei

hina está de

a incognita en

some 5-1/2° in length, running up to the north from Tong-king, very much as I have represented th