The Country
Produces Ginger And Galingale In Immense Quantities, Insomuch That For A
Venice Groat You May Buy Fourscore Pounds Of Good Fine-Flavoured Ginger.
They Have Also A Kind Of Fruit Resembling Saffron, And Which Serves The
Purpose Of Saffron Just As Well.[NOTE 1]
And you must know the people eat all manner of unclean things, even the
flesh of a man, provided he has not died a natural death.
So they look out
for the bodies of those that have been put to death and eat their flesh,
which they consider excellent.[NOTE 2]
Those who go to war in those parts do as I am going to tell you. They
shave the hair off the forehead and cause it to be painted in blue like
the blade of a glaive. They all go afoot except the chief; they carry
spears and swords, and are the most savage people in the world, for they
go about constantly killing people, whose blood they drink, and then
devour the bodies.[NOTE 3]
Now I will quit this and speak of other matters. You must know then that
after going three days out of the six that I told you of you come to the
city of KELINFU, a very great and noble city, belonging to the Great Kaan.
This city hath three stone bridges which are among the finest and best in
the world. They are a mile long and some nine paces in width, and they are
all decorated with rich marble columns.
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