 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1871 - 590 pages
...over and carrie.d them to the Great Kaan, who received them with great joy and reverence.6 And they find it written in their Scriptures that the virtue...be put therein it shall become enough for five men ; and the Great Kaan averred that he had proved the thing and found that it was really true.7 So now... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 884 pages
...over and carried them to the Great Kaan, who received them with great joy and reverence.6 And they find it written in their Scriptures that the virtue...be put therein it shall become enough for five men : and the Great Kaan averred that he had proved the thing and found that it was really true.7 So now... | |
 | Marco Polo, Noah Brooks - Adventure and adventurers - 1897 - 308 pages
...them over and carried them to the Great Kaan, who received them with great joy and reverence. And they find it written in their Scriptures that the virtue...be put therein it shall become enough for five men ; and the Great Kaan averred that he had proved the thing and found that it was really true. CHAPTER... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 770 pages
...over and carried them to the Great Kaan, who received them with great joy and reverence.6 And they find it written in their Scriptures that the virtue...be put therein it shall become enough for five men : and the Great Kaan averred that he had proved the thing and found that it was really true.7 So now... | |
 | Natural history - 1994 - 452 pages
...in the procession, and carried them to the khan, who received them with great reverence ; and they find it written in their scriptures that the virtue of that dish is such that, if food for one be put therein, it shall become enough for five men, and that the great khan had proved it himself... | |
 | Vadime Elisseeff - History - 2000 - 356 pages
...stones? The other relics were in fact soon forgotten in favor of the dish with such magical powers: "That if food for one man be put therein it shall become enough for five men." The myth of this bowl dates back to Indian antiquity as a didactic Tamil novel of the second century... | |
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... which he was led to believe were those of Adam. And why should I make a long story of it ? In sooth, the whole population of Cambaluc went forth to meet those reliques, and the ecclesiastics took them over and carried them to the Great Kaan, who received... 