When you leave the Bridge, and ride towards the west, finding all the way excellent hostelries for travellers, with fine vineyards, fields, and gardens, and springs of water, you come after 30 miles to a fine large city called JUJU, where there are many abbeys of idolaters, and the people live by trade and manufactures. They weave cloths of silk and gold, and very fine taffetas.{1} Here too there are many hostelries for travellers.{2} After riding a mile beyond this city you find two roads, one of which goes west and the other south-east. The westerly road is that through Cathay, and the south-easterly one goes towards the province of Manzi.{3} Taking the westerly one through Cathay, and travelling by it for ten days, you find a constant succession of cities and boroughs, with numerous thriving villages, all abounding with trade and manufactures, besides the fine fields and vineyards and dwellings of civilized people; but nothing occurs worthy of special mention; and so I will only speak of a kingdom called TAIANFU. NOTE 1.—The word is _sendaus_ (Pauthier), pl. of _sendal_, and in G. T. _sandal_. It does not seem perfectly known what this silk texture was, but as banners were made of it, and linings for richer stuffs, it appears to have been a light material, and is generally rendered _taffetas_. In _Richard Cœur de Lion_ we find “Many a pencel of sykelatoun And of sendel of grene and broun,” and also _pavilions_ of sendel; and in the Anglo-French ballad of the death of William Earl of Salisbury in St. Lewis’s battle on the Nile— “Le Meister du Temple brace les chivaux Et le Count Long-Espée depli les _sandaux_.” The oriflamme of France was made of _cendal_. Chaucer couples taffetas and sendal. His “Doctor of Physic” “In sanguin and in persë clad was allë, Linëd with taffata and with sendallë.” [La Curne, _Dict., s.v. Sendaus_ has: Silk stuff: “Somme de la delivrance des _sendaus_.” (_Nouv. Compt. de l’Arg._ p. 19).—Godefroy, _Dict._, gives: “_Sendain_, adj., made with the stuff called cendal: Drap d’or _sendains_ (1392, _Test. de Blanche, duch d’Orl._, Ste-Croix, Arch. Loiret).” He says _s.v._ CENDAL, “_cendau, cendral, cendel, ... sendail_, ... étoffe légère de soie unie qui paraît avoir été analogue au taffetas.” “‘On faisait des _cendaux_ forts ou faibles, et on leur donnait toute sorte de couleurs. On s’en servait surtout pour vêtements et corsets, pour doublures de draps, de fourrures et d’autres étoffes de soie plus précieuses, enfin pour tenture d’appartements.’ (_Bourquelot, Foir. de Champ._ I. 261).” “J’ay de toilles de mainte guise, De sidonnes et de _cendaulx_. Soyes, satins blancs et vermaulx.” —_Greban, Mist. de la Pass._, 26826, _G. Paris_.—H. C.]