 ... But there are men on the watch, and as soon as they see that the eagles have settled they raise a loud shouting to drive them away. And when the eagles are thus frightened away the men recover the pieces of meat, and find them full of diamonds which...  The Story of Marco Polo - Page 210by Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1871 - 592 pages
...pieces of meat, and find them full of diamonds which have stuck to the meat down in the bottom. For the abundance of diamonds down there in the depths of...of those white eagles, of which there are many, and in their droppings they find plenty of diamonds which the birds have swallowed in devouring the meat... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 884 pages
...pieces of meat, and find them full of diamonds which have stuck to the meat down in the bottom. For the abundance of diamonds down there in the depths of...of those white eagles, of which there are many, and in their droppings they find plenty of diamonds which the birds have swallowed in devouring the meat... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1897 - 580 pages
...pieces of meat, and find them full of diamonds which have stuck to the meat down in the bottom. For the abundance of diamonds down there in the depths of...get down ; and if one could, it would be only to be at once devoured by the serpents which are so rife there. There is also another way of getting the... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1902 - 198 pages
...thrown down they pounce Upon it, and carry it up to -some rocky hilltop where they begin to rend it. there in the depths of the valleys is astonishing,...get down; and if one could, it would be only to be immediately devoured by the serpents. There is also another way of getting- the diamonds. The people... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 768 pages
...pieces of meat, and find them full of diamonds which have stuck to the meat down in the bottom. For the abundance of diamonds down there in the depths of...of those white eagles, of which there are many, and in their droppings they find plenty of diamonds which the birds have swallowed in devouring the meat... | |
 | Edward Luther Stevenson, Theobald Fischer - Early maps - 1912 - 100 pages
...to the meat down in the bottom. For the abundance of diamonds down there in the depths of the valley is astonishing, but nobody can get down; and if one...devoured by the serpents which are so rife there." Yule: Marco Polo, Vol. II, pp. 360, 361. 2 See the reproduction of the map in Choix de Documents; in... | |
 | Edward Luther Stevenson - Early maps - 1912 - 118 pages
...to the meat down in the bottom. For the abundance of diamonds down there in the depths of the valley is astonishing, but nobody can get down; and if one...devoured by the serpents which are so rife there." Yule: Marco Polo, Vol. II, pp. 360, 361. 2 See the reproduction of the map in Choix de Documents; in... | |
 | Classical geography - 1912 - 354 pages
...abundance of diamonds down there in the depth of the valley is astonishing, but nobody can get them; and if one could it would be only to be incontinently...devoured by the serpents which are so rife there." The part played by the eagles is that of other sacred birds, for the defence and profit of man. Compare... | |
 | Berthold Laufer - Diamonds - 1915 - 94 pages
...(Nederlandsch-chineesch Woordenboek, Vol. I, p. 860). Compare MARCO POLO (ed. of YULE and CORDIER, Vol. II, p. 361): "The people go to the nests of those white eagles, of which there are many, and in their droppings they find plenty of diamonds which the birds have swallowed in devouring the meat... | |
 | Niharranjan Ray, Brajadulal Chattopadhyaya - History - 2000 - 698 pages
...pieces of meat, and find them full of diamonds which have stuck to the meat down in the bottom. For the abundance of diamonds down there in the depths of...but nobody can get down; and if one could, it would only to be incontinently devoured by the serpents which are so rife there. There is also another way... | |
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