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‘M. Polo observed this custom among the lay heathen. Indeed, it appears from a small treatise, written in China more than a hundred years before M. Polo, that at the time the Chinese author wrote, all devout men, entering a … Continue reading →

NOTE 1.–’_Le fait si bien_ estuier _que il dure bien trois ans ou quatre_’ (Pauthier): ‘_si bien_ estudier’ (G.T.). The word may be _estiver_ (It. _stivare_), to stow, but I half suspect it should be _estuver_ in the sense of … Continue reading →

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Goth erat atque Magoth dictum cognomen eorum * * * * * Narrat Esias, Isidorus et Apocalypsis, Tangit et in titulis Magna Sibylla suis ‘Finibus Indorum species fuit una virorum; Goth erat atque Magoth dictum cognomen eorum * * * … Continue reading →

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their station, but month by month 200 shall be kept at the station, and the other 200 at grass, coming in their turn to relieve the first 200 (Nor do the cities maintain the full number, say of 400 horses, … Continue reading →

will sometimes send for the lady to his apartment and sometimes visit her at her own When the Emperor desires the society of one of these four consorts, he will sometimes send for the lady to his apartment and sometimes … Continue reading →

moment of his first voyage the sea claimed him as her own They had lost him, although perhaps they did not realise it; from the moment of his first voyage the sea claimed him as her own. Widening horizons, slatting … Continue reading →

to nothing Of Antonio and Battestina, the uncle and aunt of Columbus, we know next to nothing. Uncle Antonio inherited the estate of Terra-Rossa, Aunt Battestina was married in the valley; and so no more of either of them; except … Continue reading →

that we might rather call a reef, and to this shoal the hawsers of vessels are moored whilst the anchors are laid out towards the land Marino Sanuto says of it: ‘Laiacio has a haven, and a shoal in front … Continue reading →