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Latest Release: Chapter 1 : The Travels of Marco Polo.by Marco Polo and Rustich.e.l.lo of Pisa.VOLUME I PREFACE.The
The Travels of Marco Polo.by Marco Polo and Rustich.e.l.lo of Pisa.VOLUME I PREFACE.The amount of appropriate material, and of acquaintance with the mediaeval geography of some parts of Asia, which was acquired during the compilation of a work of kindred
- 186 e (Illegitimate) Fiordelisa || Felice Polo, called Cousins, 1280, 1300.(II.) THE POLOS OF SAN GEREMIA.The preceding Table gives the Family of our Traveller as far as I have seen sound data for tracing it, either upwards or downwards.I have expressed, in t
- 185 (They carry a threat of attack if he should refuse to present himself before Toctai. Nogai refuses with defiance. Both sides prepare for war, but Toctai's force is the greater in numbers.) CHAPTER x.x.xI.HOW TOCTAI MARCHED AGAINST NOGAI.(The usual descri
- 184 (They exchange defiances, and make vast preparations.) And when his preparations were complete, Alau the Lord of Levant set forth with all his people. They marched for many days without any adventure to speak of, and at last they reached a great plain whi
- 183 Russia was overrun with fire and sword as far as Tver and Torshok by Batu Khan (1237-1238), some years before his invasion of Poland and Silesia.Tartar tax-gatherers were established in the Russian cities as far north as Rostov and Jaroslawl, and for many
- 182 NOTE 2.--We see that Polo's information in this chapter extends over the whole lat.i.tude of Siberia; for the great White Bears and the Black Foxes belong to the sh.o.r.es of the Frozen Ocean; the Wild a.s.ses only to the southern parts of Siberia. As to
- 181 BUKA the Jelair, who had been a great chief under abaka, and had resentments against Ahmad, got up a conspiracy in favour of Arghun, and effected his release as well as the death of ALINAK, Ahmad's commander-in-chief. Ahmad fled towards Tabriz, pursued b
- 180 CHAPTER X.THE MESSAGE SENT BY ARGON TO ACOMAT. (A remonstrance and summons to surrender the throne.) CHAPTER XI.HOW ACOMAT REPLIED TO ARGON'S MESSAGE. And when Acomat Soldan had heard the message of Argon his nephew, he thus replied: "Sirs and envoys,"
- 179 Now you must know that King Caidu had a daughter whose name was AIJARUC, which in the Tartar is as much as to say "The Bright Moon." This damsel was very beautiful, but also so strong and brave that in all her father's realm there was no man who could
- 178 _Note_.--A considerable number of the quasi-historical chapters in this section (which I have followed M. Pauthier in making into a Fourth Book) are the merest verbiage and repet.i.tion of narrative formulae without the slightest value. I have therefore t
- 177 [1] "_Drogue franche_:--Qui a les qualites requises sans melange"(_Littre_). "_Franc_ ... Vrai, veritable" (_Raynouard_).The mediaeval _Olibanum_ was probably the Arabic _Al-luban_, but was popularly interpreted as _Oleum Libani_. Dr. Birdwood saw at
- 176 Esher is a great city lying in a north-westerly direction from the last, and 400 miles distant from the Port of Aden. It has a king, who is subject to the Soldan of Aden. He has a number of towns and villages under him, and administers his territory well
- 175 143-144.) Dr. Bretschneider gives a long note on the ostrich, called in Persian _shutur-murg_ (camel-bird), from which we gather the following information: "The ostrich, although found only in the desert of Africa and Western Asia, was known to the Chine
- 174 There are numerous cities and villages in this province of Abash, and many merchants; for there is much trade to be done there. The people also manufacture very fine buckrams and other cloths of cotton.There is no more to say on the subject; so now let us
- 173 They have among them excellent and valiant warriors, and have little fear of death. They have no horses, but fight mounted on camels and elephants.On the latter they set wooden castles which carry from ten to sixteen persons, armed with lances, swords, an
- 172 A pa.s.sage from Temple's Travels in Peru has been quoted as exhibiting exaggeration in the description of the condor surpa.s.sing anything that can be laid to Polo's charge here; but that is, in fact, only somewhat heavy banter directed against our tra
- 171 The last vestiges of Christianity in Socotra, so far as we know, are those traced by P. Vincenzo, the Carmelite, who visited the island after the middle of the 17th century. The people still retained a profession of Christianity, but without any knowledge
- 170 The expression in this pa.s.sage for "the cities that lie in the interior,"is in the G.T. "_celz qe sunt_ en fra terres"; see I. 43. Pauthier's text has "_celles qui sont_ en ferme terre," which is nonsense here.[1] Abulfeda's orientation is the s
- 169 NOTE 1.--CAMBAET is nearer the genuine name of the city than our CAMBAY.Its proper Hindu name was, according to Colonel Tod, _Khambavati_, "the City of the Pillar." The inhabitants write it _Kambayat_. The ancient city is 3 miles from the existing Camba
- 168 The people are the most desperate pirates in existence, and one of their atrocious practices is this. When they have taken a merchant-vessel they force the merchants to swallow a stuff called _Tamarindi_ mixed in sea-water, which produces a violent purgin
- 167 Indeed the name of Marabia or _Marawi_ is still preserved in _Madavi_ or Madai, corruptly termed _Maudoy_ in some of our maps, a towns.h.i.+p upor the river which enters the bay about 7 or 8 miles south-east of Mt. d'Ely, and which is called by De Barros
- 166 NOTE 3.--This is the _Colombine_ ginger which appears not unfrequently in mediaeval writings. Pegolotti tells us that "ginger is of several sorts, to wit, _Belledi_, _Colombino_, and _Mecchino_. And these names are bestowed from the producing countries,
- 165 "I am tempted to carry this long account of Kayal a little further, so as to bring to light the _Kolkhoi_ [[Greek: kolchoi emporion]] of the Greek merchants, the situation of the older city being nearly identical with that of the more modern one. _Kolkho
- 164 "Say forth thy tale and tary not the time Lo Depeford, and it is half way prime."--(Reeve's Prologue.) Definitions of these terms as given by Sir H. Nicolas and Mr. Thomas Wright (_Chron. of Hist._ p. 195, and _Marco Polo_, p. 392) do not agree with th
- 163 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF MUTFILI.When you leave Maabar and go about 1,000 miles in a northerly direction you come to the kingdom of MUTFILI. This was formerly under the rule of a King, and since his death, some forty years past, it has been under his Que
- 162 [2] The G.T. has _nuns_, "_Li nosnain do mostier._" But in Ramusio it is _monks_; which is more probable, and I have adopted it.[3] M. Pauthier has suggested the same explanation in his notes.[4] Running _a-muck_ in the genuine Malay fas.h.i.+on is not
- 161 Possibly the latter may have been meant by Marco." [Captain Gill (_River of Golden Sand_, II. p. 341) at Yung-Ch'ang, speaking of the beads of a necklace, writes: "One hundred and eight is the regulation number, no one venturing to wear a necklace, wit
- 160 I do not know the site of the other fishery to which he alludes as practised in September and October; but the time implies shelter from the south-west Monsoon, and it was probably on the east side of the island, where in 1750 there was a fishery, at Trin
- 159 NOTE 7.--Fa-hian writes of the alms-pot at Peshawar, that poor people could fill it with a few flowers, whilst a rich man should not be able to do so with 100, nay, with 1000 or 10,000 bushels of rice; a parable doubtless originally carrying a lesson, lik
- 158 It is a perplexing circ.u.mstance that there is a double set of indications about the footmark. The Ceylon traditions, quoted above from Hardy, call its length 3 inches less than a carpenter's cubit. Modern observers estimate it at 5 feet or 5-1/2 feet.
- 157 When you leave the Island of Angamanain and sail about a thousand miles in a direction a little south of west, you come to the Island of SEILAN, [NOTE 1] which is in good sooth the best Island of its size in the world.You must know that it has a compa.s.s
- 156 CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF NECUVERAN.When you leave the Island of Java (the less) and the kingdom of Lambri, you sail north about 150 miles, and then you come to two Islands, one of which is called NECUVERAN. In this Island they have no king nor chief, but
- 155 Now you must know that in this kingdom of Lambri there are men with tails; these tails are of a palm in length, and have no hair on them. These people live in the mountains and are a kind of wild men. Their tails are about the thickness of a dog's.[NOTE
- 154 Before Ibn Batuta's time, Sumatra or Samudra appears in the travels of Fr.Odoric. After speaking of _Lamori_ (to which we shall come presently), he says: "In the same island, towards the south, is another kingdom, by name SUMOLTRA, in which is a singula
- 153 The story of the Battas is that in old times their communities lived in peace and knew no such custom; but a Devil, _Na.n.a.lain_, came bringing strife, and introduced this man-eating, at a period which they spoke of (in 1840) as "three men's lives ago,
- 152 All this is very perplexed, and it is difficult to trace what may have been the true readings. The 30 miles beyond the straits, whether we give the direction _south-east_ as in G.T. or no, will not carry us to the vicinity of any place known to have been
- 151 In this country the brazil which we make use of grows in great plenty; and they also have gold in incredible quant.i.ty. They have elephants likewise, and much game. In this kingdom too are gathered all the porcelain sh.e.l.ls which are used for small cha
- 150 It does not strike me from these pa.s.sages that Sanf must be looked for in the Malay Peninsula. Indeed Professor G. Schlegel, in a paper published in the _T'oung Pao_, vol. x., seems to prove that Shay-po (Djava), represented by Chinese characters, whic
- 149 CHAPTER IV.CONCERNING THE FAs.h.i.+ON OF THE IDOLS.Now you must know that the Idols of Cathay, and of Manzi, and of this Island, are all of the same cla.s.s. And in this Island as well as elsewhere, there be some of the Idols that have the head of an ox,
- 148 Cublay, the Grand Kaan who now reigneth, having heard much of the immense wealth that was in this Island, formed a plan to get possession of it. For this purpose he sent two of his Barons with a great navy, and a great force of horse and foot. These Baron
- 147 BOOK THIRD.j.a.pAN, THE ARCHIPELAGO, SOUTHERN INDIA, AND THE COASTS AND ISLANDS OF THE INDIAN SEA [Ill.u.s.tration: The Kaan's Fleet pa.s.sing through the Indian Archipelago "Fist aparoiller xiv nes, lesquels avoit chascune iv arbres, et maintes foies a
- 146 Douglas himself, are rapidly silting up; and it is probable that the river of Chinchew presented, in the 13th and 14th centuries, a far more impressive aspect as a commercial basin than it does now. But still it must have been far below Amoy Harbour in ma
- 145 The first objection will be more conveniently answered under next chapter.As regards the second, the fact urged is true. But even now a straggling street extends to the river, ending in a large suburb on its banks, and a famous bridge there crosses the ri
- 144 NOTE 2.--See vol. i. p. 312.NOTE 3.--These particulars as to a race of painted or tattooed caterans accused of cannibalism apparently apply to some aboriginal tribe which still maintained its ground in the mountains between Fo-kien and Che-kiang or Kiang-
- 143 For these reasons I formerly rejected Shao-hing, and looked rather to Fu-yang as the representative of Tanpiju. But my opinion is shaken when I find both Mr. Elias and Baron Richthofen decidedly opposed to Fu-yang, and the latter altogether in favour of S
- 142 [3] _Foreigner in Far Cathay_, pp. 158, 176.[4] A famous poet and scholar of the 11th century.[5] Mr. Wylie, after ascending this hill with Mr. Moule, writes: "It is about two miles from the south gate to the top, by a rather steep road. On the top is a
- 141 Mr. Wylie sent Sir Henry Yule a tracing of the figures mentioned in the footnote; it is worth while to append them, at least in _diagram_.No 1. No 2. No 3.++ ++ ++ |-----------| |-----------| |-----|------|------| | | | | | | | a | | +| | |+ +| |+ +|-----
- 140 [Dr. F. Hirth writes (_Jour. Roy. As. Soc._, 1896, pp. 68-69): "For centuries Canton must have been the only channel through which foreign trade was permitted; for it is not before the year 999 that we read of the appointment of Inspectors of Trade at Ha
- 139 The people are Idolaters; and since they were conquered by the Great Kaan they use paper-money. [Both men and women are fair and comely, and for the most part clothe themselves in silk, so vast is the supply of that material, both from the whole district
- 138 "Conquered by the Huns in the latter part of the fourth century, some of the Alans moved westward, others settled on the northern slopes of the Caucasus; though long prior to that, in A.D. 51, they had, as allies of the Georgians, ravaged Armenia. (See _
- 137 [1] See _Gaubil_, p. 93, note 4; _Biot_, p. 275 [and _Playfair's Dict._, p. 393].CHAPTER LXXII.CONCERNING THE CITY OF CAIJU.Caiju is a small city towards the south-east. The people are subject to the Great Kaan and have paper-money. It stands upon the ri
- 136 Of the kind worked by man-ropes must have been that huge mangonel which Mahomed Iba Kasim, the conqueror of Sind, set in battery against the great Dagoba of Daubul, and which required 500 men to work it. Like Simon de Montfort's it had a tender name; it
- 135 In some of these engines the counterpoise, consisting of a timber case filled with stones, sand, or the like, was permanently fixed to the b.u.t.t-end of the shaft. This seems to have been the _Trebuchet_ proper. In others the counterpoise hung free on a
- 134 When you leave Cayu, you ride another day to the south-east through a constant succession of villages and fields and fine farms until you come to TIJU, which is a city of no great size but abounding in everything. The people are Idolaters (and so forth).
- 133 I will tell you another thing this King used to do. If he was taking a ride through the city and chanced to see a house that was very small and poor standing among other houses that were fine and large, he would ask why it was so, and they would tell him
- 132 So, quitting this province and city of Linju, you travel three days more towards the south, constantly finding numbers of rich towns and villages.These still belong to Cathay; and the people are all Idolaters, burning their dead, and using paper-money, th
- 131 I am greatly indebted to the kindness of an eminent Chinese scholar, Mr.W.F. Mayers, of Her Majesty's Legation at Peking, who, in a letter, dated Peking, 18th September, 1874, sends me the following memorandum on the subject:-- "_Colonel Yule's Marco P
- 130 _Caugigu_.--We have seen reason to agree with M. Pauthier that the description of this region points to Laos, though we cannot with him a.s.sign it to Kiang-mai. Even if it be identical with the Papesifu of the Chinese, we have seen that the centre of tha
- 129 Yun-nan (supposed to be the Anin country of Marco Polo). (From Garnier's Work)]"Beyond Lin-ngan we find the Ho-nhi, properly so called, no longer. But ought one to lay much stress on mere names which have undergone so many changes, and of which so many
- 128 [2] In the Narrative of Phayre's Mission, ch. ii.[3] Dr. Anderson has here hastily a.s.sumed a discrepancy of sixty years between the chronology of the Shan doc.u.ment and that of the Chinese Annals. But this is merely because he arbitrarily identifies t
- 127 Indeed the mutual correspondence of these Annals, especially as to chronology, is very remarkable, and is an argument for greater respect to the chronological value of the Burmese Chronicle and other Indo-Chinese records of like character than we should o
- 126 WHEREIN IS RELATED HOW THE KING OF MIEN AND BANGALA VOWED VENGEANCE AGAINST THE GREAT KAAN.But I was forgetting to tell you of a famous battle that was fought in the kingdom of Vochan in the Province of Zardandan, and that ought not to be omitted from our
- 125 Aucasin pulls all the clothes off him, and cudgels him soundly, making him promise that never a man shall lie in again in his country.This strange custom, if it were unique, would look like a coa.r.s.e practical joke, but appearing as it does among so man
- 124 [1] Mr. E.H. Parker writes (_China Review_, XXIV. p. 106): "Polo's Kogatin is _Hukoch'ih_, who was made King of Yun-nan in 1267, with military command over Ta-li, Shen-shen, Chagan Chang, Golden-Teeth, etc."--H.C.[2] Though the bellowing of certain Am
- 123 CHAPTER XLIX.CONCERNING A FURTHER PART OF THE PROVINCE OF CARAJAN.After leaving that city of Yachi of which I have been speaking, and travelling ten days towards the west, you come to another capital city which is still in the province of Carajan, and is
- 122 "Je boz di q'il ont un lac qe gire environ bien cent miles."]Five days forward from Ch'eng-tu fu brought us on Tibetan ground. Five days backward from Yun-nan fu should bring us to the river Brius, with its gold-dust and the frontier of Caindu. Wantin
- 121 _Ethnology_.--The Chinese at Ch'eng-tu fu, according to Richthofen, cla.s.sify the aborigines of the Sze-ch'wan frontier as _Man-tzu, Lolo, Si-fan_, and _Tibetan_. Of these the Si-fan are furthest north, and extend far into Tibet. The Man-tzu (properly
- 120 Now I have told you in brief all that is to be said about Tebet, and so we will leave it, and tell you about another province that is called Caindu.[Ill.u.s.tration: Village of Eastern Tibet on Szechwan Frontier (From Cooper)]As regards Tebet, however, yo
- 119 NOTE 3.--(G.T.) "_Hi est le_ couiereque _dou Grant Sire, ce est cilz qe recevent la rente dou Seignor_." Pauthier has _couvert_. Both are, I doubt not, misreadings or misunderstandings of _comereque_ or _comerc_. This word, founded on the Latin _commerc
- 118 The distance from Si-ngan fu to Pao-ki is 450 _li_, which could be done in 3 days, but at Polo's rate would probably require 5. The distance by the mountain road from Pao-ki to the Plain of Han-chung, could never have occupied 20 days. It is really a 6 o
- 117 [Ill.u.s.tration: Cross on the Monument at Si-ngan fu (actual size). (From a rubbing.)]Ho-chou, in Western Kan-Suh, about 320 _li_ (107 miles) from Lan-chau, has a population of about 30,000 nearly entirely Mahomedans with 24 mosques; it is a "hot-bed of
- 116 [1] "Lui dist que il feust le mal venuz."CHAPTER XL.CONCERNING THE GREAT RIVER CARAMORAN AND THE CITY OF CACHANFU.When you leave the castle, and travel about 20 miles westward, you come to a river called CARAMORAN,[NOTE 1] so big that no bridge can be t
- 115 NOTE 3.--Martini observes that the grapes in Shan-si were very abundant and the best in China. The Chinese used them only as raisins, but wine was made there for the use of the early Jesuit Missions, and their successors continue to make it. Klaproth, how
- 114 CHAPTER x.x.xVI.ACCOUNT OF THE CITY OF JUJU.When you leave the Bridge, and ride towards the west, finding all the way excellent hostelries for travellers, with fine vineyards, fields, and gardens, and springs of water, you come after 30 miles to a fine la
- 113 BOOK FOURTH.Tomb of OLJAITU KHAN, the brother of Polo's CASAN, at Sultaniah. From _Fergusson's History of Architecture_.The Siberian DOG-SLEDGE. From the _Tour du Monde_.Mediaeval RUSSIAN Church. From _Fergusson's History of Architecture_.Figure of a T
- 112 The Travels of Marco Polo.by Marco Polo and Rustich.e.l.lo of Pisa.VOLUME II BOOK SECOND.--PART SECOND.The BRIDGE of PULISANGHIN, the _Lu-ku-k'iao_ of the Chinese, reduced from a large Chinese Engraving in the Geographical work called _Ki-fu-thung-chi_ i
- 111 NOTE 5.--"Filial piety is the fundamental principle of the Chinese polity." (_Amiot_, V. 129.) "In cases of extreme unfilial conduct, parents sometimes accuse their children before the magistrate, and demand his official aid in controlling or punis.h.i
- 110 [7] I had entirely forgotten to look at Trigault till Mr. Wylie sent me the extract. The copy I use (_De Christiana Expeditione apud Sinas ...Auct. Nicolao Trigautio_) is of _Lugdun_. 1616. The first edition was published at _August. Vindelicorum_ (Augsbu
- 109 The question having been raised it was very desirable to settle it, and I applied to Mr. Wylie for information, as I had received the photographs from him, and knew that he had been Mr. Thomson's companion and helper in the matter."Let me a.s.sure you,
- 108 HOW THE GREAT KAAN CAUSES STORES OF CORN TO BE MADE, TO HELP HIS PEOPLE WITHAL IN TIME OF DEARTH.You must know that when the Emperor sees that corn is cheap and abundant, he buys up large quant.i.ties, and has it stored in all his provinces in great grana
- 107 (_Mem._ VIII. 185.) NOTE 7.--The post-system is described almost exactly as in the text by Friar Odoric and the Archbishop of Soltania, in the generation after Polo, and very much in the same way by Magaillans in the 17th century. Posts had existed in Chi
- 106 [1] Even now there are at least eight different _taels_ (or liangs) in extensive use over the Empire, and varying as much as from 96 to 106; and besides these are many local _taels_, with about the same limits of variation.--(_Williamson's Journeys_, I.
- 105 He makes them take of the bark of a certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms,--these trees being so numerous that whole districts are full of them. What they take is a certain fine white bast or skin wh
- 104 CHAPTER XXII.CONCERNING THE CITY OF CAMBALUC, AND ITS GREAT TRAFFIC AND POPULATION.You must know that the city of Cambaluc hath such a mult.i.tude of houses, and such a vast population inside the walls and outside, that it seems quite past all possibility
- 103 The Emperor himself is carried upon four elephants in a fine chamber made of timber, lined inside with plates of beaten gold, and outside with lions' skins [for he always travels in this way on his fowling expeditions, because he is troubled with gout].
- 102 NOTE 1.--So Magaillans: "Game is so abundant, especially at the capital, that every year during the three winter months you see at different places, intended for despatch thither, besides great piles of every sort of wildfowl, rows of four-footed game of
- 101 [1] There are thirteen months to the Chinese year in seven out of every nineteen.["This interval of 10 years comprises 235 lunar months, generally 125 _long_ months of 30 days 110 _short_ months of 29 days, (but sometimes 124 _long_ and 111 _short_ month
- 100 _Al-Barniya_, "vas fictile in quo quid recondunt," whence the Spanish word _Albornia_, "a great glazed vessel in the shape of a bowl, with handles."So far as regards the form, the change of _Barniya_ into _Vernique_ would be quite a.n.a.logous to that
- 99 NOTE 5.--The French writer cited under note 3 says of the city as it stands: "La ville est de la sorte coupee en echiquier a peu pres regulier dont les quadres circonscrits par des larges avenues sont perces eux-memes d'une mult.i.tude de rues et ruelle
- 98 NOTE 9.--"As all that one sees of these palaces is varnished in those colours, when you catch a distant view of them at sunrise, as I have done many a time, you would think them all made of, or at least covered with, pure gold enamelled in azure and gree
- 97 "When Kublai approached his 70th year," says Wa.s.saf, "he desired to raise his eldest son Chimkin to the position of his representative and declared successor, during his own lifetime; so he took counsel with the chiefs, in view to giving the Prince a
- 96 NOTE 3.--_Umbrella_. The phrase in Pauthier's text is "_Palieque que on dit_ ombrel." The Latin text of the Soc. de Geographie has "_unum pallium_ de auro," which I have adopted as probably correct, looking to Burma, where the old etiquettes as to um
- 95 The synagogue at Kaifungfu has recently been demolished for the sake of its materials, by the survivors of the Jewish community themselves, who were too poor to repair it. The tablet that once adorned its entrance, bearing in gilt characters the name ESZL
- 94 The privilege of employing the Nakkara in personal state was one granted by the sovereign as a high honour and reward.The crusades naturalised the word in some form or other in most European languages, but in our own apparently with a transfer of meaning.
- 93 Up to the year of Christ now running, to wit 1298, he hath reigned two-and-forty years, and his age is about eighty-five, so that he must have been about forty-three years of age when he first came to the throne.[NOTE 2] Before that time he had often been
- 92 (_Hodgson_, in _J. R. A. S._ XVIII. 396 seqq.; _Ann. de la Prop, de la Foi_, x.x.xVI. 301-302, 424-427; _E. Schlagintweit, Ueber die Bon-pa Sekte in Tibet_, in the _Sitzensberichte_ of the Munich Acad. for 1866, Heft I.pp. 1-12; _Koeppen_, II. 260; _Ladak
- 91 Akin to these performances, though exhibited by professed jugglers without claim to religious character, is a cla.s.s of feats which might be regarded as simply inventions if told by one author only, but which seem to deserve prominent notice from their b
- 90 [Grenard says (II. p. 256) the most powerful and most feared of sorcerers [in Chinese Turkestan] is the _djaduger_, who, to produce rain or fine weather, uses a jade stone, given by Noah to j.a.phet. Grenard adds (II.406-407) there are sorcerers (Ngag-pa-
- 89 The deserted site, overgrown with rank weeds and gra.s.s, stands but little above the marshy bed of the river, which here preserves the name of Shang- tu, and about a mile from its north or left bank. The walls, of earth faced with brick and unhewn stone,
- 88 [6] A translation of _Heins'_ was kindly lent me by the author of this article, the lamented Mr. J. W. S. Wyllie.[7] I owe the suggestion of this to a remark in _Oppert's Presbyter Johannes_, p. 77.CHAPTER LX.CONCERNING THE KAAN'S PALACE OF CHAGANNOR.A
- 87 NOTE 2.--Such a compact is related to have existed reciprocally between the family of Chinghiz and that of the chief of the Kungurats; but I have not found it alleged of the Kerait family except by Friar Odoric. We find, however, many _princesses_ of this