en anything of the kind. The only cart I haveever seen used by Mongols is a little low, light, roughly-made bullock-dray, certainlyof Chinese importation. The old system would, however, appear to have been keptup to our own times by the Nogai Tartars, near the Sea of Azof. (See note fromIleber, in… … > H 256 MARCO POLO Book I. which the Arabs also regard as a dainty. There is a kindred animal in Siberia, calledAlactaga, and a kind of Kangaroo-rat (probably the same) is mentioned as very abun-dant on the Mongolian Steppe. There is also the Zieselmatcs of Pallas, a Dormouse,I believe, which he…
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? · Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Inscriptions, Chinese · Early maps · Mongols · Voyages and travels
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