Chapter 151 Chapter two

How to buy rare items on Meadang Uti Island① in Pagoda The first day of the voyage, and the next two days, saw no land or anything new.This road has never been traveled before.On the fourth day, they saw an island called Maedang Uti Island, which was very beautiful, because there were many lighthouses and tall marble fortresses along the island, and its area was no less than Canada. Paiguguay asked whose land it was, and it was said that it belonged to King Filaufana, who was away on the island to marry his brother Philautimon and the princess of Anchis.So Pagoda disembarked while the boat was being loaded for drinking water, and looked at the various paintings, rugs, animals, fish and birds, and other exotic and exotic objects displayed on the causeway and in the market on the docks.It turned out that they had caught up with the annual local gathering, which was the third day, and wealthy businessmen from both Asia and Africa would come here for the meeting.Brother John bought two precious old paintings, one is a sketch of an appellant⑤, and the other is a servant looking for an employer. All postures, expressions, appearances, shapes, complexions, bearings, are all beautifully painted Vichaux is indeed the authentic work of King Mechstus ⑥ court painter Charles Charmois ⑦ master.Friar John paid the bill with monkey cat coins.

Panurge bought a large painting, which was drawn according to the ancient embroidery of Philomela. The story of her tongue being cut out by her sin.I swear by this lantern handle⑩, what a masterpiece! I beg you not to think that this is a picture of adultery.It's stupid, stupid, to think that way.This painting is far from that, it has a lot of meaning.You can go to Telaimei to see it. After entering the large gallery, it is on the left. Ibis Demund also bought one, which painted Plato's idealism and Epicurus' atomism, and it was so realistic. Li Suo Taomo also bought one, which is a sketch of "Echo".

Paiguguay asked Jimnast to buy for him a valuable set of tapestry of the life and exploits of Achilles, seventy-eight panels in all, each four tervas long and three terras long. Wide, all woven of philician silk, embroidered with gold and silver thread.The tapestry first shows the marriage of Paleus ① and Thetis, then the birth of Achilles, the youth of Achilles (according to the account of Stacius Babinius), his martial arts and battle deeds ( According to what Homer sang), his death and burial (according to Ovid and Gantu ① Medang Uti Island: The author's fictional place name, Uti and Medang were originally two place names, both in the second part of the second part. It appeared in Chapter Fourteen. "Medang Uti" means "nothing" according to the Greek, and another explanation says that this word comes from the Hebrew word damah, which means "resembling". Translated as "like an island".

② Philophanes in the original text comes from the word phanos (bright), which means "bright friend", which means that this person likes to be seen and show off. ③ The original philotheamon comes from the word theaomai (curious), which means "like to watch people". ④ The original text Engys comes from the Greek word eggus, which means "near neighbor". ⑤ Refers to a person who loses a lawsuit and sues to reverse the case. ⑥ "Megistos" comes from the Greek word megistos, which means "great", and the author here intends to refer to Francois I.

⑦Charles Charmois: A painter from Orleans, who was a royal portrait at the Palace of Fontainebleau from 1537 to 1540. ⑧ "Monkey Man's Coin": The monk bared his teeth (like a monkey mantle) and said a few prayers for the merchant instead of coins. ⑨ Philomela: In mythology, the daughter of Pandion, the king of Athens, and the sister of Proni, who was raped by her brother-in-law, Tireus, king of Thracia, had her tongue cut off, and she was strictly closed to prevent her from reporting.Philomela drew a picture of her defilement and passed it on to her sister secretly. The two sisters planned to kill Itis, the son of Tireus, and then turn one into a nightingale and the other into a swallow.For the story, see lines 576-586 of Chapter VI of Ovid.

⑩ Here "lantern" in the original text falot can also be interpreted as "fool, stupid", "fool's handle", meaning humorous. ① This is too abstract to be drawn. ② "Echo" cannot be drawn, but in mythology "Echo" is a fairy. ① Paleus: The king of Iochus in mythology, the husband of Thetis, and the father of Achilles. Galabel ②), and finally the manifestation of his soul and the sacrifice of Polyxena (according to the records of Euripides). He also bought three very respectable young unicorns, a male of chestnut-brown fur and two females of speckled gray.There is also an elk, which was sold to him by a Sitia in Keelung.

An elk is about the size of a calf, with a slightly larger head like a deer, with beautiful horns, tall branches, split-toed hooves, long fur like a giant bear, and hard leather like armor.The Keelung man said that this kind of elk is rare in Sitia, because it changes color according to where it grazes and lives.It can change into the color of grass, trees, shrubs, flowers, pastures, grasslands, stones, whatever it gets close to.So it is common to turn into a squid (that's the kind of octopus), into a deer, into an Indian wolf, into a lizard; a lizard of beautiful color, which Democritus wrote A whole book is devoted to its marvelous figure, its bodily structure, its function and its character.

I have also seen it change color, not because it approached something colored, but because it felt fear or joy. For example, on a green carpet, it must become green, but After a while, it will turn yellow, blue, brown, and green one after another, just as the color of the Indian turkey's comb changes color according to its mood.In the case of the elk we are especially surprised that not only the color and skin of the moose change, but the whole of its coat, when it approaches something.At the side of Banuge in the gray robe, his fur turns gray at once, and at the side of Panguai in the purple cloak, his fur immediately glows red, and he is dressed like Anubis of Egypt. By the side of the priest-like pilot of Isis, its fur will turn white again in a flash.These two colors don't change even in polychromatic lizards.As for when it is neither afraid nor in any mood, that is to say, when it is normal, its color is the same as that of the donkey you saw in Montreal.

② Gantus Galabel: A martial arts poet in Smyrna in the fourth century. ③ It is Kirin. ① Anubis: Egyptian wolf-headed human-body god. ② Pilots wear white linen. ③ Montgomery: near Orleans, near the Royal River, where there are many mills, so there are many donkeys.