So This Salt Serves Them For Small Change.[NOTE 5]

[Illustration: The Valley of the Kin-Sha Kiang, near the lower end of Caindu, i.e. Kienchang.

(From Garnier.)

"Et quant l'en est ales ceste dix jornee adonc treuve-l'en un grant fluv qe est apele Brius, auquel se fenist la provence de Cheindu."]

The musk animals are very abundant in that country, and thus of musk also they have great store. They have likewise plenty of fish which they catch in the lake in which the pearls are produced. Wild animals, such as lions, bears, wolves, stags, bucks and roes, exist in great numbers; and there are also vast quantities of fowl of every kind. Wine of the vine they have none, but they make a wine of wheat and rice and sundry good spices, and very good drink it is.[NOTE 6] There grows also in this country a quantity of clove. The tree that bears it is a small one, with leaves like laurel but longer and narrower, and with a small white flower like the clove.[NOTE 7] They have also ginger and cinnamon in great plenty, besides other spices which never reach our countries, so we need say nothing about them.

Now we may leave this province, as we have told you all about it. But let me tell you first of this same country of Caindu that you ride through it ten days, constantly meeting with towns and villages, with people of the same description that I have mentioned.

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