Monthly Archives: December 2007

It is very notable that in Ramusio, in Pipino, and in one passage of the

G It is very notable that in Ramusio, in Pipino, and in one passage of the G. Text, the name is written _Scasem_, which has led some to suppose the _Ish-Kshm_ of Wood to be meant. That place is much … Continue reading

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Round about this great city of Cambaluc there are some 200 other cities at

various distances, from which traders come to sell their goods and buy others for their lords; and all find means to make their sales and purchases, so that the traffic of the city is passing great Round about this great … Continue reading

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Two notable and disastrous attempts to imitate the Chinese system of

currency took place in the Middle Ages; one of them in Persia, apparently in Polo”s very presence, the other in India some 36 years later Two notable and disastrous attempts to imitate the Chinese system of currency took place in … Continue reading

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CONCERNING THE CITY OF COBINAN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE THERE

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NOTE 18

NOTE 18.–Pauthier”s text has _blons_, no doubt an error for _blous_. In the G. Text it is _bloies_. Pauthier interprets the latter term as ‘blond ardent,’ whilst the glossary to the G. Text explains it as both _blue_ and _white_. … Continue reading

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So the Cobler received the Bishop”s benison, and then threw himself on his

knees before the Holy Cross, and stretched out his hands towards Heaven, and made this prayer: ‘Blessed LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, I pray Thee by Thy goodness that Thou wilt grant this grace unto Thy people, insomuch that they perish not, … Continue reading

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Abulfeda, speaking of this territory, uses exactly Polo”s phrase, saying

that the districts in question are properly called _Kl-o-Kln_, but by the Arabs _Jl-o-Jln_ Abulfeda, speaking of this territory, uses exactly Polo”s phrase, saying that the districts in question are properly called _Kl-o-Kln_, but by the Arabs _Jl-o-Jln_. Teixeira gives … Continue reading

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['The burying of living men with the dead was a general custom with the

tribes of Eastern Asia [‘The burying of living men with the dead was a general custom with the tribes of Eastern Asia. Favourite servants and wives were usually buried in this way. In China, the chief wives and those concubines … Continue reading

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