Monthly Archives: April 2007

Government, as they were then and still are Marco does not allude to the fact that almanacs were published by the Government, as they were then and still are. Pauthier (515 seqq.) gives some very curious details on this subject … Continue reading →

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he hath committed all the necessary affairs of thirty-four great provinces; and now I will tell you particulars about them and their establishments You must know that the Great Kaan hath chosen twelve great Barons to whom he hath committed … Continue reading →

it is in the G The explanation of the name MULEHET as it is in Ramusio, or _Mulcete_ as it is in the G. Text (the last expressing in Rusticiano”s Pisan tongue the strongly aspirated _Mulhete_), is given by the … Continue reading →

that of a sacred tree visited by the Chinese pilgrims to India, which had grown from the twig which Sakya, in Hindu fashion, had used as a tooth-brush; and I think there is a like story in our own country … Continue reading →

NOTE 2.–In Turcomania Marco perhaps embraces a great part of Asia Minor, but he especially means the territory of the decaying Seljukian monarchy, usually then called by Asiatics _Rm_, as the Ottoman Empire is now, and the capital of which … Continue reading →

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NOTE 3.–The French MSS. read _Toscaor_; the reading in the text I take from Ramusio. It is Turki, _Toskl_, [Arabic], defined as ‘Gardien, surveillant de la route; Wchter, Wache, Wegehter.’ (See _Zenker_, and _Pavet de Courteille_.) The word is perhaps … Continue reading →

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it, or Guanahani, as it was known to the aborigines, is situated in latitude 24 deg Watling”s Island, as it is now called, or San Salvador, as Columbus named it, or Guanahani, as it was known to the aborigines, is … Continue reading →