CAP. LXVII.
Reading edition
Of a great citie named Cadon therein is the great Caanes palaice and sege.
Those are fayre beastes and well smelling and of the smell of those skynnes, none evyll smell may come to the palayce, those skynnes are as redde as bloude, and they shine so against the Sonne that a man can scarcely beholde them and those skynnes are estemed there as much as golde.
Notes in this chapter
Note 1 · : Others call it Sugarmago or Eugarmago.Note 2 · : Pynson says seven.Note 3 · : This is a curious term, which can scarcely be translated. A French edition has Mountaynette, which Cotgrave says is a little mountain. A LNote 4 · : Serpents.Note 5 · : Representation.Note 6 · : I have up to the present failed in finding equivalents for these two words, also for Quickes (spelt in Pynson Onichez, which may probably Note 7 · : Beryl.Note 8 · : Marco Polo gives a graphic description of the invasion and subjection of Manzi, or Southern China, in the year 1268, by Kublai's great genNote 9 · IN the province of Cathay towards the East, is an olde citie & beside that citie the Tartariens have made an other citie that men call CadonNote 10 · In the myddest of the palace is a place made that they call the Monture3 for the great Caane, that is well made with precious stones and greNote 11 · At the left syde of his throne is the sege of his wife a degree lower than he sitteth and that is of Jasper bordred with gold and the sege o