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‘The site visited by Mr

‘The site visited by Mr. Paderin is shown, by the particulars stated in
that paper, to be sufficiently identified with Karkorum. It is precisely
that which Rmusat indicated, and which bears in the Jesuit maps, as
published by D”Anville, the name of _Talarho Hara Palhassoun_ (i.e. Kar?
Balghsun), standing 4 or 5 miles from the left bank of the […]

There was a great Tartar Chief, whose name was NAYAN,[NOTE 4] a young man

The tame Yaks are never, I imagine, ‘caught young,’ as Marco says; it is a

The name (_Kienkien_), the general direction, the existence of good iron

(_D”Avezac_, p

CHAPTER XXI

HOW MESSER NICOLO AND MESSER MAFFEO POLO, ACCOMPANIED BY MARK, TRAVELLED

Admitting this Karacathayan prince to be the first conqueror (in Asia, at

[With reference to Wood”s remark that the horns of the _Ovis Poli_ supply

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