Monthly Archives: August 2006

suspense to which Columbus was to be subjected; and presently comes a favourable reply from the Queen, commanding that Columbus should be sent to her Follows an interval of suspense, the beginning of a long discipline of suspense to which … Continue reading →

capital, he has erected a place for the sittings of the Great Council, called _Sing_ But to return to Rashiduddin: ‘As the Kaan generally resides at the capital, he has erected a place for the sittings of the Great Council, … Continue reading →

NOTE 2.–’_Ou demeurent_ sesnes.’ _Sesnes, Cesnes, Cecini, Cesanae_, is a mediaeval form of _cygnes, cigni_, which seems to have escaped the dictionary-makers. It occurs in the old Italian version of _Brunetto Latini”s Tresor_, Bk. V. ch. xxv., as _cecino_; and … Continue reading →

At many a noble Armee hadde he be ‘In the GRETE SEE, At many a noble Armee hadde he be.’

NOTE 5.–The huskless barley of the text is thus mentioned by Burnes in the vicinity of the Hindu-Ksh: ‘They rear a barley in this elevated country which has no husk, and grows like wheat; but it is barley.’ It is … Continue reading →

to be found also in the narrative of Nikbi (and Mirkhond), which is cited by D”Obsson The foundation of the story, so widely received among the Christians, is to be found also in the narrative of Nikbi (and Mirkhond), which … Continue reading →

from ch The same romance brings in the story of the Stone of Samarkand, adapted from ch. xxxiv., and accounts for its sanctity in Saracen eyes because it had long formed a pedestal for Mahound!

OF THE GREAT CITY OF SAMARCAN.

NOTE 3.–Ramusio has ‘_nine_ sails.’ Marsden thinks even this lower number an error of Ramusio”s, as ‘it is well known that Chinese vessels do not carry any kind of topsail.’ This is, however, a mistake, for they do sometimes carry … Continue reading →