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The way they administer justice is this

The way they administer justice is this. When any one has committed a
petty theft, they give him, under the orders of authority, seven blows of
a stick, or seventeen, or twenty-seven, or thirty-seven, or forty-seven,
and so forth, always increasing by tens in proportion to the injury done,
and running up to one hundred and seven. Of these […]

In the former story we have bands under _Nigudar_ going off by Ghazni,


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Marco might well say of the bamboo that ‘it serves also a great variety of


The avarice of the Khalif was proverbial


CHAPTER XII


Chingkim died in the 12th moon of 1284-1285, aged 43


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