Starting From The Last City Of Kinsay
Government, The Traveller Goes Six Days South-East; Three Out Of Those
Six Days Bring Him To Kelinfu; He Goes On The Other Three Days And At The
15th Mile Of The 3rd Day Reaches Unken; 15 Miles Further Bring Him To
Fuju.
This is interesting as showing that Polo reckoned his day at 30
miles.
In Pauthier's text again we find: "Sachiez que quand on est ale six
journees, apres ces trois que je vous ay dit," not having mentioned
trois at all "on treuve la cite de Quelifu." And on leaving Quelinfu:
"Sachiez que es autres trois journees oultre et plus xv. milles treuve
l'en une cite qui a nom Vuguen." This seems to mean from Cugui to
Kelinfu six days, and thence to Vuguen (or Unken) three and a half days
more. But evidently there has been bungling in the transcript, for the es
autre trois journees belongs to the same conception of the distance as
that in the G.T. Pauthier's text does not say how far it is from Unken to
Fuju. Ramusio makes six days to Kelinfu, three days more to Unguem, and
then 15 miles more to Fuju (which he has erroneously as Cugiu here,
though previously given right, Fugiu).
The latter scheme looks probable certainly, but the times in the G.T. are
quite admissible, if we suppose that water conveyance was adopted where
possible.
For assuming that Cugiu was Fortune's Chuchu at the western base of the
Bohea mountains (see note 3, ch.
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