NOTE 3. - [Rubruck says, (Rockhill, p. 248): "I saw also the envoy of
a certain Soldan of India, who had brought eight leopards and ten
greyhounds, taught to sit on horses' backs, as leopards sit." - H. C.]
NOTE 4. - Ramusio's is here so much more lucid than the other texts, that
I have adhered mainly to his account of the building. The roof described
is of a kind in use in the Indian Archipelago, and in some other parts of
Transgangetic India, in which the semi-cylinders of bamboo are laid just
like Roman tiles.
Rashiduddin gives a curious account of the way in which the foundations of
the terrace on which this palace stood were erected in a lake. He says,
too, in accord with Polo: "Inside the city itself a second palace was
built, about a bowshot from the first: but the Kaan generally takes up his
residence in the palace outside the town," i.e., as I imagine, in Marco's
Cane Palace. (Cathay, pp. 261-262.)
["The Palace of canes is probably the Palm Hall, Tsung tien, alias
Tsung mao tien, of the Chinese authors, which was situated in the
western palace garden of Shangtu.
