The two Barons had all
the leaders of the enterprise put to a cruel death, and all those of lower
rank were pardoned. And thenceforward they conducted themselves with
loyalty towards their lord.[NOTE 5]
Now having told you all about this affair, let us have done with it, and I
will tell you of another place that you come to in going south, which is
called SINJU-MATU.
NOTE 1. - There seems to be no solution to the difficulties attaching to
the account of these two cities (Chinangli and Tadinfu) except that the
two have been confounded, either by a lapse of memory on the traveller's
part or by a misunderstanding on that of Rusticiano.
The position and name of CHINANGLI point, as Pauthier has shown, to
T'SI-NAN FU, the chief city of Shan-tung. The second city is called in the
G. Text and Pauthier's MSS. Candinfu, Condinfu, and Cundinfu, names
which it has not been found possible to elucidate. But adopting the reading
Tadinfu of some of the old printed editions (supported by the Tudinfu
of Ramusio and the Tandifu of the Riccardian MS.), Pauthier shows that
the city now called Yen-chau bore under the Kin the name of TAI-TING FU,
which may fairly thus be recognised.
