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NOTE 5

NOTE 5.–’The Mongols are not prohibited from having a plurality of wives;
the first manages the domestic concerns, and is the most respected.’
(_Timk._ II. 310.) Naturally Polygamy is not so general among the Mongols
as when Asia lay at their feet. The Buraets, who seem to retain the old
Mongol customs in great completeness, are polygamists, and have […]

This name is introduced in Ramusio, but probably by interpolation, as well

‘”Ye, par ma fay,” quoth heo,

This is Hayton”s account of the Parthian tactics of the Tartars: ‘They

OF THE CITY OF CHANDU, AND THE KAAN”S PALACE THERE

An Indian prince, in a Sanskrit inscription of the 9th century, boasts of

‘The ocean encircles the ultimate bounds of the inhabited earth, and

The Emperor hath numbers of leopards[NOTE 1] trained to the chase, and

Arghún Khan died 10th March, 1291