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Several of the fancies that legend has attached to the brief story of the

Magi in St
Several of the fancies that legend has attached to the brief story of the
Magi in St. Matthew, such as the royal dignity of the persons; their
location, now in Arabia, now (as here) at Saba in Persia, and again (as in
Hayton and the Catalan Map) in Tarsia or Eastern Turkestan; the notion
that one of […]

‘Kuku-Khoto is the depôt for the Mongolian trade with China


The name of REOBARLES, which Marco applies to the plain intermediate


[Illustration: Tibetan Bacsi]



NOTE 2


NOTE 2


HOW THE KAAN REWARDED THE VALOUR OF HIS CAPTAINS


Odoric describes the great jar of liquor in the middle of the palace hall,


Major P