Monthly Archives: August 2007

caravel there, while he sailed on to Gomera, which he reached on Sunday night, with a similar purpose Columbus left Pinzon on the Grand Canary with orders to try to obtain a caravel there, while he sailed on to Gomera, … Continue reading →

[This is quite exact; Mr. E. Delmar Morgan writes in the _Scottish Geog. Mag._ January, 1892, p. 17: 'Following the terminology of Yule adopted by geographers, and now well established, we have (1) Pamir Alichur; (2) Pamir Khurd (or 'Little'); … Continue reading →

Bartholomew and Martin Behaim, the great authority on scientific navigation, who had been living in Lisbon for some time and with whom Columbus was acquainted The people who probably helped him most in this were his brother Bartholomew and Martin … Continue reading →

[Dr. Bretschneider observes 'that in the ancient Chinese works, three concentric inclosures are mentioned in connection with the palace. The innermost inclosed the _Ta-nei_, the middle inclosure, called _Kung-ch"eng_ or _Huang-ch"eng_, answering to the wall surrounding the present prohibited city, … Continue reading →

[Illustration: Yenking or Old Cambaluc A.D. 1290] mini chopper custom rear fender for 205 50 10 tire diabetes food info wholesale country christmas dinnerware handling moral philosophy and business decisions canine diabetes treatment on line tefl courses custom diet dr … Continue reading →

Mekran) left Kermn on the 15th of January, and reached Bander Abbsi on the 3rd of February, but, as three halts have to be deducted, his total number of marches was exactly the same as Marco”s, viz Major Smith (accompanied … Continue reading →

(_Della Decima_, III. 18, 149, 65, 74, 212, etc.; IV. 4, 5, 6, 212; _Reiske”s_ Notes to _Const. Porphyrogen._ II.; _D”Avezac_, p. 524; _Vocab. Univ. Ital.; Franc.-Michel, Recherches_, etc. II. 29 seqq.; _Philobiblon Soc. Miscell._ VI.; _Marsh”s Wedgwood”s Etym. Dict._ … Continue reading →

the Shut-up Nations to aid him against the Persians, but it brought him no good, for he was beaten in spite of their aid, and died of grief According to some chroniclers, the Emperor Heraclius had already let loose the … Continue reading →

NOTE 1.–Ramusio has: ‘One part of the said province is subject to the Tartar, and the other part, owing to its fortresses, remains subject to the King David.’ We give an illustration of one of these mediaeval Georgian fortresses, from … Continue reading →

stream of the Oxus, known locally as the Panja, along which Wood also travelled, followed of late by the Mirza and Faiz Bakhsh The river along which Marco travels from Badakhshan is no doubt the upper stream of the Oxus, … Continue reading →