Monthly Archives: August 2006

There are two Hermenias, the Greater and the Less. The Lesser Hermenia is governed by a certain King, who maintains a just rule in his dominions, but is himself subject to the Tartar.[NOTE 1] The country contains numerous towns and … Continue reading →

[1] Elliot, II. 290.

CHAPTER XXXV.

OF THE PROVINCE OF CHINGINTALAS.

affords another possible origin of the word _Sensin_; but it may in fact be at bottom, as regards the first syllable, the same with the etymology we have preferred [11] _Shen_, or coupled with _jin_ ‘people,’ _Shenjin_, in this sense … Continue reading →

they found mines on the cliffs over the river, from which the coal was sent down by long bamboo cables, the loaded baskets drawing up the empty ones At the highest point of the Great Kiang, reached by Sarel and … Continue reading →

Palace is, where he stays _June, July, August_;

who vexed the Christians with taxes and corves ‘”Many years ago there reigned in Babylon, on the Nile, a haughty Khalif who vexed the Christians with taxes and corves. He was confirmed in his hate of the Christians by the … Continue reading →

Genoa, with an occasional spell ashore and plunge into the paternal affairs, when in the year 1476 he found himself on board a Genoese vessel which formed one of a convoy going, to Lisbon He had been at sea for … Continue reading →