It Is Not A Land Of Trade, Though To Be Sure They Have
Many Fine And Valuable Furs, Such As Sables, In Abundance, And Ermine,
Vair, Ercolin, And Fox Skins, The Largest And Finest In The World [And
Also Much Wax].
They also possess many Silver-mines, from which they
derive a large amount of silver.[NOTE 1]
There is nothing else worth mentioning; so let us leave Rosia, and I will
tell you about the Great Sea, and what provinces and nations lie round
about it, all in detail; and we will begin with Constantinople. - First,
however, I should tell you of a province that lies between north and
north-west. You see in that region that I have been speaking of, there is
a province called LAC, which is conterminous with Rosia, and has a king of
its own. The people are partly Christians and partly Saracens. They have
abundance of furs of good quality, which merchants export to many
countries. They live by trade and handicrafts.[NOTE 2]
There is nothing more worth mentioning, so I will speak of other subjects;
but there is one thing more to tell you about Rosia that I had forgotten.
You see in Rosia there is the greatest cold that is to be found anywhere,
so great as to be scarcely bearable. The country is so great that it
reaches even to the shores of the Ocean Sea, and 'tis in that sea that
there are certain islands in which are produced numbers of gerfalcons and
peregrine falcons, which are carried in many directions.
Enter page number
PreviousNext
Page 918 of 1350
Words from 246717 to 246979
of 370046
