In 1330 it was reduced to 100 men."
(Palladius, 42-43.) Mr. E. H. Parker writes in the China Review,
XVIII. p. 262, that they "are evidently the 'body guards' of the modern
viceroys, now pronounced Kashiha, but, evidently, originally Keshigha."
- H. C.]
[1] One of the nearest readings is that of the Brandenburg Latin collated
by Mueller, which has Quaesicam.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE FASHION OF THE GREAT KAAN'S TABLE AT HIS HIGH FEASTS.
And when the Great Kaan sits at table on any great court occasion, it is
in this fashion. His table is elevated a good deal above the others, and
he sits at the north end of the hall, looking towards the south, with his
chief wife beside him on the left. On his right sit his sons and his
nephews, and other kinsmen of the Blood Imperial, but lower, so that their
heads are on a level with the Emperor's feet. And then the other Barons
sit at other tables lower still. So also with the women; for all the wives
of the Lord's sons, and of his nephews and other kinsmen, sit at the lower
table to his right; and below them again the ladies of the other Barons
and Knights, each in the place assigned by the Lord's orders.
