. The story of Marco Polo . rkestan,just north of Bokhara, and therefore it was behindMarco Polo when he had passed the Pamir steppes :evidently, he did not visit Samarcand, and couldnot give us any information about the city ; so hetells us this story: Samarcan is a great and noble cicy towards the north-west, inhabited by both Christians and Saracens, who aresubject to the great Kaans nephew, Caidou by name;he is, however, at bitter enmity with the Kaan. I will tellyou of a great marvel that happened at this city. It is not a great while ago that Sigatay, own brother tothe Great Kaan, who wa
. The story of Marco Polo . rkestan,just north of Bokhara, and therefore it was behindMarco Polo when he had passed the Pamir steppes :evidently, he did not visit Samarcand, and couldnot give us any information about the city ; so hetells us this story: Samarcan is a great and noble cicy towards the north-west, inhabited by both Christians and Saracens, who aresubject to the great Kaans nephew, Caidou by name;he is, however, at bitter enmity with the Kaan. I will tellyou of a great marvel that happened at this city. It is not a great while ago that Sigatay, own brother tothe Great Kaan, who was lord of this country and of manyan one besides, became a Christian. The Christians rejoiced greatly at this, and they built a great church in thecity, in honour of John the Baptist; and by his name thechurch was called. And they took a very fine stone whichbelonged to the Saracens, and placed it as the pedestal ofa column in the middle of the church, supporting the came to pass, however, that Sigatay died. Now the. -vr-sKp-r* THE MIRACULOUS COLUMN. VI.] A GLORIOUS MIRACLE. 71 Saracens were full of rancour about that stone that had beentheirs, and which had been set up in the church of theChristians; and when they saw that the Prince was dead,they said one to another that now was the time to get backtheir stone, by fair means or by foul. And that they mightwell do, for they were ten times as many as the they gat together and went to the church and saidthat the stone they must and would have. The Christiansacknowledged that it was theirs indeed, but offered to paya large sum of money and so be quit. Howbeit, the othersreplied that they never would give up the stone for any-thing in the world. And words ran so high that the Princeheard thereof, and ordered the Christians either to arrangeto satisfy the Saracens, if it might be, with money, or togive up the stone. And he allowed them three days to doeither the one thing or the other. The Saracens would on no
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