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The Travels of Marco Polo

It is the case, however, that the author of the Book of the Estate of the Great Kaan (circa 1330) also speaks of cremation as the usual Chinese practice, and that Ibn Batuta says positively: ‘The Chinese are infidels and idolaters, and they burn their dead after the manner of the Hindus.’