. La storia di Marco Polo . t ha aiutato notNayan, che era colpevole di delitto e di dislealtà, perché non avrebbe partecipato alle sue azioni malvagie. E così non si sentì più parlare dei floutingsof dei non credenti contro i cristiani, perché essi guariscono bene ciò che il Sovrano disse a quest'ultimo circa il thecross sulla bandiera di Nayans, e non gli ha dato alcun aiuto. Marco fa uno o due errori nel suo racconto dei grandi Khan doings bellicosi. Questa non era l'unica volta che l'Imperatore andò in guerra di persona; perché gli annalisti cinesi raccontano di almeno un'altra occasione quando guidò il suo esercito contro il fratello

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. The story of Marco Polo . t It aided notNayan, who was guilty of crime and disloyalty, for It wouldtake no part in his evil deeds. And so thenceforward no more was heard of the floutingsof the unbelievers against the Christians; for they heardvery well what the Sovereign said to the latter about theCross on Nayans banner, and its giving him no help. Marco makes one or two errors in his account ofthe Great Khans warlike doings. This was not theonly time that the Emperor went to war in person ;for the Chinese annalists tell of at least one otheroccasion when he led his army against his brotherand rival, Arikbuga, in 1261 ; and in his old age hetook the field against Kaidu, a rebel in the North. XIII.] WAR-DRUMS. 119 Nayan, whose defeat and tragic death are so vividlydescribed by Marco, was not the uncle of KublaiKhan ; he was no more than a cousin many timesremoved. A bartizan was a sort of tower, made of timber, and used for purposes of defence or attack. It wouldappear that the Great Khan went to war in person, . THE GREAT NACCARAS. riding in a great wooden tower, which was carried onthe backs of four elephants. On an elephant wasalso carried the big war-drum which Polo calls anaccara. This was an immense kettle-drum shapedlike a brass cauldron, tapering to the bottom andcovered with dried buffalo hide, which had beenscraped thin and tightly stretched for the drum-head.These drums were sometimes three or four feet across 120 THE STORY OF MARCO POLO. [Ch. at the top, and the noise from them when beatenwas something terrific. Two monster drums wouldbe slung on the back of an elephant, and the drummer, seated between the two, would beat first one andthen another, when the signal was to be given to thefighting-men. Imagine four hundred and sixty thousand soldiers, infantry and cavalry, marching to battle with thegigantic drums sounding, flags flying, troops shouting, ;and over all the war-banner of the great Emperor, streaming from his castle borne on the backs of foureleph

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