Monthly Archives: February 2007

you have been told [having meanwhile acquired great wealth in jewels and gold], they began among themselves to have thoughts about returning to their own country; and indeed it was time When the Two Brothers and Mark had abode with … Continue reading →

They have another notable custom, which is this. If any man have a daughter who dies before marriage, and another man have had a son also die before marriage, the parents of the two arrange a grand wedding between the … Continue reading →

The second Nigudar is evidently the one to whom Abu”l Fzl alludes. Khanikoff assumes that the Nigudar who went off towards India about 1260 (he puts the date earlier) was Nigudar, the grandson of Chaghatai, but he takes no notice … Continue reading →

[Friar Odoric (_Cathay_, I. pp. 55-56) says: 'And there you find (before arriving at Hormuz) people who live almost entirely on dates, and you get forty-two pounds of dates for less than a groat; and so of many other things.'] … Continue reading →

causes other landmarks, pillars or stones, to be set up to show the way But where the ground is so sandy and desert that trees will not grow, he causes other landmarks, pillars or stones, to be set up to … Continue reading →

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NOTE 3.–A practice resembling this is mentioned by Pallas as existing among the Buddhist Kalmaks, a relic of their old Shaman superstitions, which the Lamas profess to decry, but sometimes take part in. ‘Rich Kalmaks select from their flock a … Continue reading →

(_Martini_, p. 39; _Tav., Des Indes_, Bk. II. ch. xxiv.; _J. A. S. B._ XI. 285; _Davies”s Rep._ App. p. ccxxxvii.; _Dr. Flckiger in Schweiz. Wochenschr. fr Pharmacie_, 1867; _Heyd, Commerce du Levant_, II. 636-640.) morning news show good morning … Continue reading →

MM. Huc and Gabet made a like observation on the high passes of north-eastern Tibet: ‘The _argols_ gave out much smoke, but would not burn with any flame’; only they adopted the native idea that this as well as their … Continue reading →

Klaproth”s reading correct of a passage in Rashiduddin which he renders as saying that the palace at Kaiminfu was ‘called Langtin, and was built after a plan that Kbli had seen in a dream, and had retained in his memory … Continue reading →