this way. They have salt which they boil andset in a mould [flat below and round above],4 and everypiece from the mould weighs about half a pound. Now,So moulds of this salt are worth one saggio of fine gold,which is a weight so called. So this salt serves themfor small change.5 The musk animals… … 56 MARCO POLO Book II. as lions, bears, wolves, stags, bucks and roes, exist in greatnumbers ; and there are also vast quantities of fowl ofevery kind. Wine of the vine they have none, but theymake a wine of wheat and rice and sundry good spices,and very good drink it is.6 There grows also in…
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