Ser Marco Polo: Notes and Addenda to Sir Henry Yule's Edition, Containing the Results of Recent Research and DiscoveryThis book, published as an addendum to Sir Henry Yule's translation of Marco Polo's book about his travels to Asia, lends considerable insight into the original book's given information. More detail and background information is lent to the reader in this work, providing a more thorough knowledge of Marco Polo's travels. |
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Page 43 - There are numerous towns and villages in the country, but Cotan, the capital, is the most noble of all, and gives its name to the kingdom. Everything is to be had there in plenty, including abundance of cotton, [with flax, hemp, wheat, wine, and the like]. The people have vineyards and gardens and estates. They live by commerce and manufactures, and are no soldiers.2 NOTE 1.
Page 37 - In leaving Badashan you ride twelve days between east and north-east, ascending a river that runs through land belonging to a brother of the Prince of Badashan, and containing a good many towns and villages and scattered habitations. The people are Mahommetans, and valiant in war. At the end of those twelve days you come to a province of no great size, extending indeed no more than three days' journey in any direction, and this is called VOKHAN.
Page 40 - The Plain is called PAMIER, and you ride across it for twelve days together, finding nothing but a desert without habitations or any green thing, so that travellers are obliged to carry with them whatever they have need of. The region is so lofty and cold that you do not even see any birds flying. And I must notice also that because of this great cold, fire does not burn so brightly, nor give out so much heat as usual, nor does it cook food so...
Page 75 - XXXIII., p. 456, n. Instead of Hui ffeng, read Hiu Heng. BOOK SECOND. PART II.— JOURNEY TO THE WEST AND SOUTH-WEST OF CATHAY. XXXVII., p. 13. "There grow here [Taianfu] many excellent vines, supplying great plenty of wine ; and in all Cathay this is the only place where wine is produced. It is carried hence all over the country.
Page 17 - A very great river flows through the city, and by this you can descend to the Sea of India. There is a great traffic of merchants with their goods this way ; they descend some eighteen days from Baudas, and then come to a certain city called...
Page 46 - They have this custom, that if a married man goes to a distance from home to be absent twenty days, his wife has a right, if she is inclined, to take another husband; and the men, on the same principle, marry wherever they happen to reside.
Page 58 - ... do the buying and selling, and whatever is necessary to provide for the husband and household ; for the men all lead the life of gentlemen, troubling themselves about nothing but hunting and hawking, and looking after their goshawks and falcons, unless it be the practice of warlike exercises. They live on the milk and meat which their herds supply, and on the produce of the chase ; and they eat all kinds of flesh, including that of horses and dogs, and Pharaoh's rats, of which last there are...
Page 20 - Concerning the spices of Arabia let no more be said. The whole country is scented with them, and exhales an odour marvellously sweet. There are also in Arabia two kinds of sheep worthy of admiration, the like of which is nowhere else to be seen...
Page 108 - In this Island they have no king nor chief, but live like beasts. And I tell you they go all naked, both men and women, and do not use the slightest covering of any kind.
Page 116 - In Guzerat, Chau Ju-kwa, p. 92, mentions : " Four thousand Buddhist temple buildings, in which live over twenty thousand dancing-girls who sing twice daily while offering food to the Buddha (ie, the idols) and while offering flowers." XVIII., p. 356. TRADITIONS OF ST. THOMAS. " The traditional site of the Apostle's Tomb, now adjacent to the sea-shore, has recently come to be enclosed in the crypt of the new Cathedral of San ThomeV' (AE MEDLYCOTT, India and the Apostle Thomas.