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Ningbo 寧波( Travellers | Cities | Routes | Trade Goods | Themes )
"About ten miles from this city, towards the mouth of that great river Talay, there is a certain other city called MENZU. This city hath shipping finer and more numerous peradventure than any other city in the world. And all the vessels are as white as snow, being coated with whitewash. And on board of them you find halls and taverns and many other conveniences, as handsome and well ordered as are anywhere to be found. Indeed it is something hard to believe when you hear of, or even when you see, the vast scale of the shipping in those parts."- Henry Yule, trans., The Travels of Odoric of Pordenone,
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Tianfeng Pagoda, Ningbo, courtesy of TripAdvisor. |
