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A09829	The most noble and famous trauels of Marcus Paulus, one of the nobilitie of the state of Venice, into the east partes of the world, as Armenia, Persia, Arabia, Tartary, with many other kingdoms and prouinces. No lesse pleasant, than profitable, as appeareth by the table, or contents of this booke. Most necessary for all sortes of persons, and especially tor trauellers. Translated into English; Travels of Marco Polo. English	Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1579 (1579)	STC 20092; ESTC S105055	116,899	196

death of this Chenchis was made Lord of the Tartars one called Cane and this was the firste that was called Emperoure and Greate Cane And after hym raigned Bathe Cane and the fourth was called Chenchis Cane the fifth was Cublay Cane which raigneth nowe This Cublay Cane is the greatest and of most power of anye of al his predessors for among the Christians and Heathen there is not a greater Prince than he is nor of so great a power and that shall you cléerely perceyue hereafter by that which followeth All the Canes successors of the first Chenchis where bu●yed in a mountaine called Alchay and there dwelled the greate Cane And when the greate Cane dyeth they cary hym to be buryed there Those that do cary him or go with him kill as manye as they méete withall in the waye or stréete and when they kill them they saye Go and serue our Lorde in the other worlde they beléeue certainely that they go and doe him seruice And likewise by this reason when the greate Cane dieth they kill all his Camels Horses and Moyles beléeuing that they sēd them to serue their Lord in the other worlde When Monguy Cane Lorde of the Tartars dyed there was slaine .300000 men that they encountred in the way by those that wente wyth hym to hys buriall to the saide mountaine The habitation of the Tartars in the Winter is in the plaine fieldes where it is warme and good grasse and pasture for their Cattell and in the Sommer in the mountaines and wooddes where it is freshe and pleasaunt aire and they make rounde houses of tymber and couer them with feltes and these houses they carry with them at all times when they do remoue and alwayes they sette their doore in the Sommer time towards the South and in the Winter towardes the North. These Tartars haue theyr cartes of Wagons couered with blacke feltes that neuer any water can passe through and in these Cartes or Wagons go their wiues children and family and their Cammels do drawe these Wagons The Tartars wiues doe buy and sell al manner of things belonging to householde or any thing néedefull their husbands take no care for it but onely in hawking hunting and going on warrefare They do eate all manner of fleshe and drinke milke of all kinde of beastes and mares The Tartars maye take as manye wiues as they will and maye marry with anye of their kinred excepting no degrée but their firste wife is the chiefest and is moste made of the women doe gyue their dowries to their husbandes There is none of them will haue conuersation with an other mannes wife And when the father dyeth his eldest sonne doeth marry wyth his mother in lawe and when the sonne dyeth his brother marryeth with hys sister in lawe and for the time do kéep great solemnitie and feastes at the wedding Of the custome orders faith and honoring the great Cane and howe he goeth to the warres CHAP. 43. THe Greate Cane Emperour of the Tartars doth worshippe for his God and Idoll called Nochygay and they saye and beléeue that he is the eternall God that taketh care to preserue hym hys wiues children familie cattell and corne and hathe him in great reuerence and euery one hath the figure of that Idoll in his house And this Idoll is made of feltes or of other cloth and of the same felte or cloth they doe make wiues and children for their Idols and the women be sette on the lefte side of the Idols and the children before them When they thinke it dinner tyme then they doe annoynte the mouthes and lippes of theyr Idols and wiues and children with the fatte of the sodden flesh and do poure out the broath vpon the floore saying that theyr Idols their wiues and children doe fill themselues with it and they do eate the sodden flesh and their drinke is the milke of Mares trimmed with spices that it is like white wine and it is very good and is called with them Cheminis The Lordes and men of power and riches goe apparelled in cloth of golde and cloth of silke furred with riche furres Their harnesse is the Hydes of Buffe or other thicke and strong Skynnes The Tartares be valiant men of armes and strong to abyde any trauell or laboure and can well suffer hunger and thirst for in the warres they be many times one moneth and eate nothing but of wylde beastes they doe kill in the field and drinke Mares Milke When they be in the field day and night they be on Horsebacke and the bridle in their hands they giue the Horses meate When their King setteth forward with his host before and on euery side of him they do set foure battels of the best and most valiant men for bycause their King shoulde not bée put in feare And when he goeth a warrefare a farre off he caryeth nothing with hym but hys armoure and a thing to couer him when it doth rayne and two flaggons with Milke for to drinke and a Potte to séeth his meate in when néede is In a tyme of néede hée will ride tenne days iourney without eating any sodden meate For his drinke they will carrie Milke made like dry paste and when hée is disposed to drinke he will take a little of that paste and dissolue it in fayre water and so drinke it and when thys shall fayle hym and that he can gette no other drinke hée letteth hys Horse bloud and drinketh of it When the Tartares wyll skyrmishe wyth theyr en●mies they hyde their Sallets secretely and as they doe beginne to skyrmishe streightway they shewe as though they woulde runne away and that they were ouercome of theyr enimies and thus fléeing putte on theyr Sallets and streyght way they returne valiantly vpon their enimies and by this meanes commonly they doe breake the a ray of theyr enimies The Tartares haue thys custome that if one of theyr sonnes dye being yong and also of another man his daughter after they be dead they marrie them saying they shall be maried in the other worlde And of thys Matrimonie they doe make a publike writing and this writing they burne saying to the dead that as the smoke thereof ascendeth on high so doe they sende them that writing declaring theyr mariage And at suche mariages they make great feasting and solemnitie and do séeth muche victuals and poure out the broath vppon the floore saying that those which be dead in this world and maried in the other do eate of the victuals prepared for the wedding And besides all this they cause to be painted the figure of the sonne and daughter vppon the backside of the foresayde writing and withall the pictures of manye Camels and other diuers beasts and apparell and money and many other things saying that as that writing dothe burne all those things therein goe straight way to their chyldren after the smoke as aforesayde and the fathers and mothers of these

They do delight muche to sée children and for to sée them they come where men be Their heads when they be layde séeme like to Celes heads and when he lifteth vp his head it séemeth bigger It hath at the hinder partes a face like to a man and as though it were paynted of diuers couloures They doe take them by inchantments which the people vse muche there and carrie them to be séene and doe no hurt to anye body Also there is in this Prouince and in the nexte adioyning named Susynaria another kind of Serpēts which hath foure féete and a long tayle lyke mastyes They doe take them hunting and eate them for they doe no hurte and are to eate as amongst vs the Hinde or wilde Goate The people say they are good meate Their Skinnes be of diuers couloures and those people vse them for diuers couerings for it is very fayre to behold Also there be other Serpentes of a maruellous figure in that Countrey of the length of one cubite with wings like vnto Battes They haue seauen heads ordinarily sette of the length of his bodye They dwell among the trées and are of a swifte flighte The yare more venomous than the other that onely with their breath they kill a man Also there be Cattes of the Mountayne that flye for they haue a small skinne from the backe vnto the bellie ouer all theyr body and féete whyche is gathered vp when they are still and when they will flye they spredde it and moue it lyke wings leaping from one trée vnto another The Hunters do follow them till they be wéerie with flying that they fall downe and so are taken Also there is in this Countrey a trée named Cachy that of the troncheon there groweth a fruite lyke vnto a Pyne but it is so great that a man can scarce beare it The hull is gréene and harde but it is of suche a sorte that if you thrust it with your finger it gyueth place It hath within it two hundred and fiftie or thrée hundred Apples like vnto Figges They are of a pleasante tast and are separated with a very thinne rine The hull within is like vnto the Chestnut in hardnesse and sauoure and in like maner they are rosted They are windie so that if they be putte into the fire except they be cut they will start out They do giue the vtter rine vnto the Oxen to eate Sometimes they fynde this fruite vnder grounde in the rootes of the trées and those be of a pleasanter tast therefore they doe vse to presente them vnto the Kings and Nobles The fruite within hath no rine This trée is muche like vnto a great Figge trée the leaues are like vnto the leaues of Platanos or ragged The wodde is like vnto Bore therefore it is hadde in estimation and is vsed aboute manye things Also there is another fruite named Amba verye gréene like vnto a Walnut but bigger than a Peache The rine is bitter and within it hath the sauour of hony They lay them in water before they ripe and dresse them as we doe the gréene Olyues for to eate From Coloen he wente thrée dayes iourney vnto a Citie named Cochin it is fiue myles in compasse scituated at the entring of a Riuer of the whiche it hath the name and sayling a certayne time vpon the Riuer he saw manye fiers and nettes fast by the Riuer and thought there had bin fishermen and he demaunded what those fishermen did with those fires euery nighte and those of that Coūtrey gaue him answere yeepe yeepe that is to say they were fishes or monsters hauing humane forme that on the daye time liued in the water and in the night they doe come out of the water and gather wodde togither and make a fyre striking one stone agaynste another whiche Monsters did take and eate fishe for there woulde come manye vnto the lighte of the fire and sometimes there is taken some of them and there is found no difference in them from other men and women In this Region the frutes are like vnto those of Col●en Beyond this there standeth another Citie named Calonguria standing at the entring of another Riuer into the Sea and beyond there standeth Paluria and Malyancora and this name among them signifyeth a great Citie it is nine miles in compasse He wente through all those and came vnto Colychachia a City standing vpon the Sea coaste it is eyght miles in compasse it is the most noble in trade of Merchandise that is in all India There is héere very much Pepper Laccar Ginger grosse Sinamon and other spices Aromatike and of a swéete sauoure Only in this region the woman taketh as many husbands as she listeth and the husbands agrée among themselues what eache shall giue towardes the mayntenance of the wife Euery husband is in his owne house and when he goeth vnto his wife he setteth a signe at the dore and when another of them commeth and séeth the signe he goeth another way The children are the husbands that the wife listeth to giue them vnto The sonne dothe not inherit his fathers lande but hys sonnes sonne From hence he trauelled ●iftéene dayes tyll hée came to a Citie called Cambayta standing néere the Sea. It is twelue miles in compasse towardes the Occidente There is plentye of Espico Nardo or Lacca Indico or Gome Laka Myrabolanos Crewill There is héere a certayne kind of Priestes whiche are named Bachales hauing but one wife a péece and she by their law is burnt with hir husband This kind of people eateth no flesh but onely fruites of the grounde and Rice milke and hearbes Here be many wilde Oxen they haue manes like vnto Horses but longer and his hornes are so long that when he turneth his heade they reache vnto his tayle and for that they be so bigge they doe vse them in steade of bottels to drinke in by the waye Returning to Colicuchia hée passed vnto an Iland named Secutera whiche standeth towards the Occident distant from the mayne lande a hundreth myles It is sixe hundreth myles in compasse and it is replenished for the most parte with Christians Nestorians Heretickes Right against this Iland no more thā fiue myles there standeth two Ilands a thousande myles distant the one from the other the one is of men the other of women sometimes the men passe vnto the women and sometimes the women go ouer vnto the men and they returne backe vnto their Ilande before sixe moneths for if they shoulde tarrie any longer they thinke shoulde dye From hence he passed by sea vnto a Citie named Adena in fiue days which hath many edifications and from thence in seauen dayes he wente vnto Ethiopia vnto a hauen named Barbara and from thence in a monthes sayling he came vnto the redde sea vnto a hauen called Byonda and from thence he sayled two monthes with great difficultie and landed in a countrey neare vnto mounte Sinay from thence trauelling through the deserts he came