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A09829	The most noble and famous trauels of Marcus Paulus, one of the nobilitie of the state of Venice, into the east partes of the world, as Armenia, Persia, Arabia, Tartary, with many other kingdoms and prouinces. No lesse pleasant, than profitable, as appeareth by the table, or contents of this booke. Most necessary for all sortes of persons, and especially tor trauellers. Translated into English; Travels of Marco Polo. English	Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?; Frampton, John, fl. 1577-1596.	1579 (1579)	STC 20092; ESTC S105055	116,899	196

Maugy Maugy Heere is found plenty of golde Their money is made of Corrall Here is cloth of gold cloth of silke and Chamlets made Heere groweth spices Masties as bigge as Asses Plenty of Pearles and precious stones Heere they haue an ill custome Heere is mone● of golde Here is great plenty of Spices Heere is found greate plentye of gold A Riuer into the Seas Heere be many Horses bredde A Sazo of gold is worth eyght of siluer which is an ounce Heere is great plent● of golde The men of this countrey haue theyr teeth couered with gold Heere is a custome that the good man is much made of after hys wife is broughte a bed A Sazo of gold is an ounce and is worth fyue of Si●●er A strange kind of Phisicke Vnicornes Great plen●● of cloth of Gold and Silke Mangi Mangi Mangi The riuer Tnoguron the greatest riuer in the world Fiue thousan̄d vessels on this riuer Seauen thousand bridges of stone Plentie of Rewbarbe Fiue pounde of Ginger for sixe pence Quinsay The nobles● Citie of the worlde it is an hundred miles cōpasse Twelue thousand bridges of stone The manner how they do kil the Lions Good cheape Suger Faire men and women heere Blacke Hen● and fatie without feathers A Riuer of seauen mile broad There be many Ships made This Citie hath the best Hauen in the world For one Shippe that commeth to Al●xan●ria there commeth in ther a hundreth Great custome is payd heere The Iland of Ciampagu is fifteene hundred miles from the mayne lande In this Iland is great plent● of golde The Kings Pallace is couered wyth cleane golde The windowes and pillers thereof is golde Great ●lenty of Precious stones Men hauing stones that were inchanted could not be slaine with weapons of iron but with clubbes The Citie taken by a prettie meanes In this Sea is .7448 Ilands whiche be verye frutefull and pleasant Heere groweth whyte Pepper This King had .325 children A very riche Iland of spices and golde in great plentye Heere is found plentie of golde Great trade for Pepper by reason of the quantity Melibar Plenty of Pepper and Ginger and Turbit A darke land The Introduction FOr that this treatise which I found in the secōd Booke towards the end that Maister Pogio Florētine Secretary vnto Pope Eugenius the fourth wryteth of the varietie or chaunge of fortune it maketh muche vnto the confirmation and proofe of the things that Maister Marcus Paulus writeth in h●s Booke for that by the mouth of two or three as our Redeemer sayth there is proued the truth I thoughte good to translate it out of Eloquent Latine whiche hee did write it in and to communicate it into my rude Castilian and naturall tongue for that ioyntly suche twoo witnesses in thys present worke may make a full or almoste a sure proofe of some things for that it hath not bin seene in our Europa or that in any auntient writing appeareth it may be thoughte harde or difficile credence And the saide Pogio followeth in this manner in the ende of his seconde Booke IT séemeth not vnto me a thing straunge from reason if I decline from the stile that hitherto I haue vsed in this Booke declaring of the harde fortune making an ende counting the diuersities of thinges wherein the heartes of the Readers finde more taste and amiable gladnesse than in those that already I haue written Notwithstanding that also in the cause I will declare appeareth plainelye the force of Fortune in retourning a man vnto Italy oute of the extreame partes of the worlde of the Orient after that he had suffered and passed fiue and twentie yeres such greate fortunes aswell by sea as by lande The olde Authors do write many things of the Indians with the common fame of the whiche the certaine knowlege that since we haue hadde sheweth them to be rather fables than of truth as it appeareth by the referring of one Nicholas a Venetian that after he had trauailed the intrailes of the Indias he came vnto Eugenius the fourth Pope of that name who then was in Florence to reconcile himselfe and to haue pardon for that comming oute of India and ne●re vnto Egipt towards the redde Sea hée was constrayned to renounce and forsake the faith for feare of death more of his wife and children than of hymselfe And for that I hearde by manye that he declared of manye singular things I desired muche to heare hym and not onelye to demaunde of him concerning the things whiche hée hadde séene in the presence of wise Barons and of greate authoritie but also to enforme my selfe wyth hym in myne owne house and to take a note of his relation for that there mighte remaine a remembraunce of it vnto those that hereafter shoulde come after mée And of a trueth hée tolde so certaynelye so wisely and so attentiuely all hys trauaile made amongest people of so farre Countries the vse manners and custome of the Indians the diuersitie of wilde beastes trées the lynages of Spices and in what place it groweth that it appeared well hée dydde not declare a fained tale but the trueth of that whiche hée hadde séene And as it séemeth this man went so farre as none of the olde tyme hadde béene for he passed the riuer Gangy and wente beyonde the Ilande Taprobana where we reade there came none excepte one Captaine of Alexanders fléete named Onesycrito and a Citizen of Rome that by fortune of tēpest arriued in those parties in the time of Tiberius Cesar. This Nicholas Venetian being yong was as a Merchaunt in the Citie of Damasco in Syria and hauing learned the Arabian tongue he departed from the sayde Citie in the company of .600 Merchantes the whiche company they do call Carouana or Carauana trauailing with his merchaundize through the deserts of Arabia otherwise named Petrea and from thence thoroughe Chaldie he came vnto the greate riuer Euphrates Hée saide that at the going out of the Deserte hée sawe a meruailous thing that aboute midnighte being all at reste he heard a great noise and sound that they thoughte it hadde bin companies of Alarabes wild naked menne or robbers and that they were comming to doe them some hurte and all the whole company arose and were al ready with the feare and they sawe manye battels of horsemen whiche passed harde by their tents much like an hoste dooing vnto them no hurte at all and those that hadde vsed that way said it was certaine companies of fiends which did ouer run in that sorte the Deserts There standeth aboue Euphrates a noble Citie that the walles of it be of fouretéene thousande paces And this Citie was a parte of the olde Babilon and those of that Countrie name it by a newe name Baldachia and Euphrates runneth in the middes of it and they doe passe ouer a bridge that hath fourtéene arches of ech side where appeareth many remembraunces of the olde Babilon and manye edifications throwne downe It hath a strong and

tye themselues vnto the carte and so hanging dead in the procession accompany theyr Idoll thinking that they cannot doe greater worshippe nor sacrifice vnto their Gods. And they make their solempnity thrée times in a yeare In one time there gather togither all the menne and women and people of all ages washing themselues in the sea or in a riuer hauing all newe apparell doyng nothing else in thrée dayes but feaste daunce and sing Another feaste they celebrate in burning manye lampes within and withoute their Churches burning with oyle of Ioni●lly and the light goeth not oute daye nor nighte In the thirde they doe sette vppe poales like small mastes through all the stréetes and from the toppe vnto the grounde they doe hang very faire clothes wroughte with golde belonging vnto their Gods and painted and on the topped of these poales al the whole nine dayes that it endureth they do sette a religious man that hathe a benigne and méeke face who suffereth all that paine for to receiue the grace of his God and the people throwe vnto him Orrenges Lemmons and other like fruites and he suffereth it all with patience There bée other thrée solempne dayes that they doe caste Saffron water vppon those that passe throughe the stréetes and manye laughe at it They doe celebrate their weddings wyth banquets songs trumpets and instrumentes muche like vnto ours sauing Organs whiche they haue not they doe make very sumptuous feasts day and nighte with instrumentes daunces and songs They daunce rounde aboute as wée doe following one after an other in order and twoo of them carrying twoo painted wandes in their handes and as they doe méete they doe chaunge stickes or wandes And Nicholas rehearseth that this was a fayre sighte to beholde They doe vse no Bathes sauing the Indians beyonde Gange The others doe washe themselues manye times of the daye with colde water they haue scant of oile and other fruites of ours as Peaches Peares Cherries Damsons Apples and of Grapes they haue but fewe and as aboue is rehearsed onely in one place And in Puditfetamas a prouince there groweth a certaine trée withoute fruite it groweth thrée cubites aboue grounde and they call it shamefulnesse for when a man commeth vnto it it incloseth the braunches and when he goeth away it spreadeth abroade his braunches ¶ Birengalia is a Mountaine whiche standeth beyonde towards the Septentrion fiftéene dayes iorney It is enuironed with many lakes named Birenegalias whiche are full of venomous beastes and the mountaine standeth daungerous to bée entred by reason of Serpentes And thereon growe the Adamantes and for that menne dare not goe vnto it the pollicie of manne founde a way to enter and to take the Adamantes for there standeth adioyning vnto it an other mountaine being a little higher and in certaine times of the yeare menne goe vppe vnto the toppe of it where they doe kill certaine Oxen that they carrye with them and the péeces of fleshe being hotte and bloudy with certaine Crossebowes for the purpose doe shoote them vppon the toppe of that other mountaine and with the fall it cleaueth faste vnto the Adamantes and then the Bitturs and Eagles that flye in the ayre snatche vppe that fleshe with their clawes or tallants and flye vnto other places where they maye féede vppon it without feare of those Serpentes and so the men finde the stones that fall from the fleshe they doe fynde wyth more ease the pretious stones for they doe digge in sundrye places where they vse to finde suche stone so déepe til they fynde water mingled wyth grauell and then they doe take a syne for that purpose and putte in of the grauell and the water runneth out and kéepe the stones that remaine behind and after this sorte in al these parties they doe vse to finde them and the Maisters that sette to séeke them haue greate care that their seruauntes doe not steale of those stones for they haue those that search all their apparell yea and so neare that they leaue not vnsearched their priuie partes to knowe if they haue hidden any They diuide ●he yeare into twelue moneths as we doe and counte the moneths according to the twelue signes of the Elements They accompte the yeare in diuers manners and the moste parte doe recken it from August for that in the time of Augustus Octauius Caesar there was an vniuersall peace throughoute all the world and they recken from that time .1490 yeares In some regions they haue no money but vse in steade of money a certayne small stone whiche they name Cattes eye and in some other places they do vse péeces of Iron like néedles somewhat bigger In other places they do vse the Kings name written in paper in steade of money In some prouinces of India more within the lande they doe vse Venice duckets of golde and also other mony of two duchettes in one Also they do vse money of siluer and of copper and in other places they doe make certaine péeces of golde and vse them in steade of money The firste Indians in the warres vse dartes swords a defence for their armes like Almaine riuets rounde Targes and bowes The other Indians vse skulles backes and breaste plates The Indians which are beyond vse Crossebowes and gunnes al other ingenious artillerie vsed against Cities These those of the Weaste frée and saye that all other people are blinde sauing they whiche haue twoo eyes and saye that we haue but one signifying that in prudence they do excéede all the worlde And onelye the Cambay●as write in paper and all the reste write vppon leaues of trées and of them make Bookes of a good liking nor yet they write not as we doe nor as the Iewes from one side vnto an other but begin aboue and so write downewardes There be among the Indians diuers languages They haue gret abundaunce of slaues The debtor that can not paye they cause him to serue the creditor he that is accused of any crime there being no certaine witnesse againste him is quitte by his oth they vse thrée manner of othes There commeth the partie before hys Idoll and sweareth by that Idoll that he is not faultie and they haue readye a hotte burnyng Iron like vnto a fishe hooke and cause hym that swore to touch it with his tongue and to licke it and if it doe him no hurte he is quitte And others bring the partie before hys Idoll and cause hym to take that same burning yron in his hande and so to carry it certaine paces and if it hurt him not he is quitte but if it doe he is guiltie The thirde manner of swearing whiche is moste vsed is suche They doe sette before his Idoll a potte full of hote melted butter and he that sweareth not to be guiltie dippeth in two of his fingers into the butter and so wrappeth them with a clowte and sealeth it that it shall not vnloose and at thrée dayes ende they vndoe it and if