Monthly Archives: May 2007

NOTE 5.–’The Emperor … began this year (1264) to depart from Yenking (Peking) in the second or third month for Shangtu, not returning until the eighth month. Every year he made this passage, and all the Mongol emperors who succeeded … Continue reading →

Major Montgomerie, R.E., of the Indian Survey, who has probably passed more time nearer the heavens than any man living, sends me the following note on this passage: ‘What Marco Polo says as to fire at great altitudes not cooking … Continue reading →

town) ‘Sha-chow, the present _Tun-hwang-hien_ (a few _li_ east of the ancient town)…. In 1820, or about that time, an attempt was made to re-establish the ancient direct way between Sha-chow and Khotan. With this object in view, an exploring … Continue reading →

A note, with which I have been favoured by Dr. Campbell (long the respected Superintendent of British Sikkim) says: ‘Captain Smith, of the Bengal Army, who had travelled in Western Tibet, told me that he had shot many wild Yaks … Continue reading →

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[General Houtum-Schindler, in a paper in the _Jour. R. As. Soc._, Jan. 1898, p. 43, gives an abstract of Dr. Houtsma"s (of Utrecht) memoir, _Zur Geschichte der Saljuqen von Kerman_, and comes to the conclusion that 'from these statements we … Continue reading →

Ramusio, e Notice in this passage the additional and interesting particulars given by Ramusio, e.g. the use of the mixed breeds. ‘Finer than silk,’ is an exaggeration, or say an _hyberbole_, as is the following expression, ‘As big as elephants,’ … Continue reading →

NOTE 4.–In 1263 Kbli adopted the Chinese fashion of worshipping the tablets of his own ancestors, and probably at the same time the adoration of his own tablet by his subjects was introduced. Van Braam ingenuously relates how he and … Continue reading →