Yearly Archives: 2008

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_matchlocks_ at Kerman; but rose-water, shawls, and carpets are the staples of the place now There is, or was in Pottinger”s time, still a great manufacture of _matchlocks_ at Kerman; but rose-water, shawls, and carpets are the staples of the … Continue reading →

causes other landmarks, pillars or stones, to be set up to show the way But where the ground is so sandy and desert that trees will not grow, he causes other landmarks, pillars or stones, to be set up to … Continue reading →

day: a general belief in regard to those _Trees of Grace_, of which we have already seen instances in regard to the sacred trees of Zoroaster and the Oak of Hebron He who injured the holy tree of Bostam, we … Continue reading →

Heyd (_Com._ II. p. 675) says in a note: ‘Il rsulte de l”ensemble de ce passage que les matires dsignes par Marco Polo sous le nom de “espodie” (spodium) taient des scories mtalliques; en gnral, le mot spodium dsigne les … Continue reading →

India, appear in all the fabulous histories of Alexander, from the Pseudo-Callisthenes downwards These oracular Trees of the Sun and Moon, somewhere on the confines of India, appear in all the fabulous histories of Alexander, from the Pseudo-Callisthenes downwards. Thus … Continue reading →

monastery, Friar Juan Perez, bustling round, good-natured busybody that he is, to see what is all this talk at the door While they are talking comes no less a person than the Prior of the monastery, Friar Juan Perez, bustling … Continue reading →

Four Eagle”s Wings he had; This signified the Grecian Alexander, Who with four Hosts went forth to conquer lands Even to the World”s End, Known by its Golden Pillars ‘The third beast was a Libbard; Four Eagle”s Wings he had; … Continue reading →

Christopher was fourteen years old when he first went to sea. That is his own statement, and it is one of the few of his autobiographical utterances that we need not doubt. From it, and from a knowledge of certain … Continue reading →

Greenland was supposed to–be a promontory of the coast of Europe, and was not connected in men”s minds with a western continent It must be remembered, however, that then and in the lifetime of Columbus Greenland was supposed to–be a … Continue reading →