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kept therein Readi-nefs to carry an Army to any of the the Commander of the Tartars was called Baiun Cbinfan , 
Iflands, ’if they fhould rebel, or to any remote Region. Near that is to fay, an hundred Eyes, and was much tern- 
the Bank of the River, where thefe Ships are kept, is fied ; wherefore, calling for the Commander of the Tar- 
Coiganzu, and over-againft it Quanzu, one a great City, tar Army, thinking him to be the Man which the Aif ra- 
the other a fmall one. After you arepaft that River, you logers fpoke of, hie delivered the City unto him, which, 
enter into the noble Kingdom of Mangi ; but you mult being heard, the Citizens and Inhabitants of the whole 
not think that we have handled in Order the whole Pro- Province yielded to the Obedience of the Great Khaim 
vince of Cathay , having not fpoken of the twentieth The Queen was lent unto the Court of the Great Khan, 
Part ; for Marco Polo palling by the faid Province, hath and was molt honourably received by him, and rnaintainci 
only defcribed the Cities in his Way, leaving thole on both like a Queen. And now we will (peak of the Cities in 
Hands, and thofe betwixt thefe, to prevent Tedioufnefs, the Country of Mangi. Coiganzu is a very fair and rich 
and to avoid writing from hear-fay. City, fituate towards the South-Kail and Eaft, in the En- 
20. The Province of Mangi is the richeft and mod fa- trance of the Province of Mangi , where are always great 
mous that is founded in the Eaft ; and in An. Bom. 1269, Numbers of Ships, being feared on the River Carama , 
was governed by a certain King, called Fanfur , who was and a great Quantity of Merchandize is carried thither ; 
richer and mightier than any which had reigned there in Salt is alfo made there in Abundance. Proceeding from 
an hundred Years, but a Man peaceable and charitable, fo Coiganzu , you ride' towards the South-Kail one Day’s 
beloved of his Subjects, that thereby, and by the Strength Journey on a Stone Caijfeway, on both Sides whereof are 
of the Country, he feemed invincible. It was from a Per- great Fences, with deep Waters, through which they may 
fuafion of this that the King, as well as the People, loft pafs with proper Veffels ; neither is there any Entrance 
the Ufe and Excercife of War and Arms. All the City into Mangi but by Shipping, excepting this Caufeway. 
was encompafied with Ditches full of Water. He held in At the End of that Day’s Journey is a City called 
Pay no Horfes, becaufe he feared Nobody ; and, in Pro- Paughin , large and fair ; the People make Stuffs of Gold 
cefs of Time, the King, betaking himfelf to Pleafure more and Silk, are Merchants, and Idolaters. The Paper- Mo* 
than was fit, employed his whole Time in Delights. He ney of the Great Khan is received throughout the whole 
maintained about a thoufand Concubines, with whom he Country. It is plentiful in all Neceffaries of Life. To 
paffed his Time in Pleafure. He maintained Juftice, and the City Cam is from Paughin one Day’s Journey South- 
preferved Peace ; no Man durft offend his Neighbour and Eaft; and this is alfo a famous City. The Country 
difturb the Peace, for fear of fevere and impartial Punifh- thereabouts abounding with Fifh, Beafts, and Fowl, efpe- 
ment ; fo that Artificers would often leave their Shops full daily Pheafants, are found in exceeding great Plenty, as 
of Wares open by Night, and yet none would prefume to large as Peacocks, of which you may have three for a Ve- 
go into them. Travellers and Strangers fafely walked Day netian Groat, Proceeding farther from hence one Day’s, 
and Night through that whole Kingdom, fearing no Journey, you come through a well manured, moft fruitful 
Man. The King himfelf alfo was merciful towards the and well peopled Country, to the City Tingui , which, tho* 
Poor, and did not overlook them that were oppreffed with it be not over large, yet hath in it exceeding great Plenty 
Neceffity, or punifhed with Penury. Belides, every Year of Vi&uals. They are Merchants, and have a vaft Re- 
he took up twenty thoufand young Infants, eaft off by fort of Ships: There is Plenty of Beafts and Fowls. It is 
their Mothers, who, through Poverty, were not able to feated to the South-Eaft, and on the Left-hand towards 
keep them, which he brought up, and put them, when the Eaft, three Days Journey off the Ocean, and in the 
they were grown up, to fome Trade, marrying the young Country between, are very many Salt-pits, and they 
Men with the Maids, which he had in like manner fo make great Quantities of Salt. After this is Cingui , a 
educated ». _ great City, whence the Country is furnifhed with Salt, 
Cublai-Khan was of a different Difpofition from Fanfur , whereof the Khan makes immenfe Profit, almoft beyond 
and delighted only in Wars and Conquefts ; and to Belief : They are Idolaters, and have Paper- Money. From 
make himfelf great, he levied an Army, of Horfe and Cingui , riding towards the South-Eaft, you meet with 
Foot, and made one, named Chinfan- Baian, i. e. an hun- the noble City Jangui , under the Government whereof 
dred Eyes, General thereof, he therefore coming with his are other Cities , feven-and-twenty in Number ; and in 
Army and a Fleet to the Province of Mangi, firft fum- that City refides one of the twelve Barons, which are Go- 
moned the City Coiganzu to yield Obedience to his Em- vernors of Provinces, chofen by the Great Khan ; they 
peror, who refufed the fame ; he departed without any are Idolaters, and Jive on Merchandize. They make 
Affault given to the City, and required the fame of the fe- Arms and Harnefs for War, and Matter Marco had the 
cond City, which, Jikewife refufing, he marched forwards foie Government thereof, by Commiflion, from the Great 
to the third and fourth, and received the like Anfwer of Khan, three Years together, inftead of one of thefe Ba- 
themall; but he affaulted the next with great Courage, rons. Naughin is a Province to the Weft, one of the 
and vanquished the fame by Force, and flew every Crea- greateft and nobleft of Mangi ; a Place of great Merchan- 
ture of what Sex or Age foever therein, which fo frighted dize ; they are Idolaters, have none but Paper-Money, 
and terrified the reft, that they all prefently yielded. The have vaft Quantities of Beafts and Fowl, wild and tame. 
Great Khan fent out another great Army after the former, They make Cloths of Gold and Silk, and are rich Mer- 
with both which Armies he marched againft the chief chants, and the Country is very advantageous to the Khan, 
City Quinfai , where the King of Mangi refided, who be- efpecially by Cuftoms of Merchandifc ; there is likewife 
ing mightily terrified, as never having feen any War, fled great Plenty of Corn. 
with his Wealth on board the Ships he had prepared, to Sianfu is a noble and great City in the Province of As- 
certain impregnable Blands in the Ocean, where he after- gi, and hath twelve rich and great Cities under her Jurif- 
wards died,_ committing the Cuftody of the City of didion. They make great Quantities of Silks, and Cloths 
Fhiinfai to his Wife, bidding her to defend it as well as of Gold, have Plenty of Game, Fowl, and all Things per- 
fhe could ; for being a Woman, fhe need not fear Death, taining to a City of Note ; fo ftrong that it xtas three 
if fhe was taken. Years befieged, and could no tbe vanqui-fhed by the Army 
. is to be obferved, that King Fanfur had been told by of the Tartars, when the Province of Mangi was fubdued, 
his Diviners, that his Kingdom would never be taken from for it is encompafied on every Side with Lakes, that there 
him but by one which had an hundred Eyes, which the was no way to it but on the North ; fo that Ships came 
Queen knew, and therefore was ftill in Hopes not to lofe and went, continually bringing Plenty of Victuals, which 
the City however ftreightened, thinking it impofiible for not a little afflidled the Great Khan. The two Brethren, 
one Man to have an hundred Eyes ; but one Day fhe heard Matter Nicolo, and Matter Majpo , then in his Court, hear-' 
“The Chinefe Hiftories agree exactly, as to the Chara&eror this Prince, with what we find delivered concerning him by our Author ; but they dif- 
fer widely with refpeft to the Name ; fmee, according to them, he was called Tou, and from the Name of his f amily Tfong . He was the fifteenth 
Emperor of the nineteenth Dinafiy, and fucceeded to the Throne in the Year 1264. It was to his Indolence, Debauchery, and exceffive Love of 
Pleafure, that the Chinefe attribute the Deftrudion of their Country, and the total Conqueft of it by the Tartars. This Monarch died in the Midi! 
of his Misfortunes, and left three young Children under the Tutelage of the Emprefs their Mother. Thefe Hiftorians give us a great Chandler of tie 
Tartar General, mentioned by our Author ; but then they give him quire another Name, <viz. Pe Ten ; but what the bonification of that is I cannot 
inform the Reader. He is faid to have commanded, an Army of two hundred thoufand Men, with the lame Eafe as if it had been only a fmall Body 
of Troops, and to have Ihevvn fo great Modefty in the Midft of his Conquefts, as never ®nce to have valued himfelf on the many and great Services 
he rendered to his Mafter. ■ J ® 
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