to the Emperor, or to sell articles at Court, orbecause the city affords so good a mart to attract traders.[There are in each of the suburbs, to a distance of amile from the city, numerous fine hostelrics for thelodgment of merchants from difierent parts of the world,and a special hostelry is… … 414 MARCO POLO Book II. of the city as inside, without counting those that belongto the oreat lords and barons, which are very numerous. You must know that it is forbidden to bury any deadbody inside the city. If the body be that of an Idolaterit is carried out beyond the city and suburbs to a…
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