77/104 For Marco Polo's account of this custom in the province which he calls 'Kardandan', see op.cit., p.250.An illustration of it from an album belonging to the close of the Ming dynasty is reproduced in S.W. A certain _Poh-lo_ was, according to the Chinese annals of the Mongol dynasty, appointed superintendent of salt mines at Yangchow shortly after 1282. |