Djan-Ch'i, Of The Yuen-Shi,
Falconers Are Called Ying Fang Pu Lie, And A Certain Class Of The
Falconers Are Termed Bo-Lan-Ghi.
(Bretschneider, Med.
Res. I.
p. 188.) - H. C.]
NOTE 5. - A like description is given by Odoric of the mode in which a
successor of Kublai travelled between Cambaluc and Shangtu, with his
falcons also in the chamber beside him. What Kublai had adopted as an
indulgence to his years and gout, his successors probably followed as a
precedent without these excuses.
[With regard to the gout of Kublai Khan, Palladius (p. 48) writes: "In the
Corean history allusion is made twice to the Khan's suffering from this
disease. Under the year 1267, it is there recorded that in the 9th month,
envoys of the Khan with a letter to the King arrived in Corea. Kubilai
asked for the skin of the Akirho munho, a fish resembling a cow. The
envoy was informed that, as the Khan suffered from swollen feet it would
be useful for him to wear boots made of the skin of this animal, and in
the 10th month, the king of Corea forwarded to the Khan seventeen skins of
it. It is further recorded in the Corean history, that in the 8th month of
1292, sorcerers and Shaman women from Corea were sent at the request of
the Khan to cure him of a disease of the feet and hands. At that time the
king of Corea was also in Peking, and the sorcerers and Shaman women were
admitted during an audience the King had of the Khan.
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