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The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East (1903)

Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?, Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925, Yule, Amy Frances, Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · London : John Murray · leaf 654

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oon, and then he made those drums of theirs to sound thatthey call Nacaires, and then they set upon us horse and foot. The Great Nakkaraof the Tartars appears from several Oriental histories to have been called AY/rkah.I cannot find this word in any dictionary accessible to me, but it is in the Ain… … Nakkaras. (From a Chinese original.) The privilege of employing the Nakkara in personal state was one granted by thesovereign as a high honour and reward. The crusades naturalised the word in some form or other in most Europeanlanguages, but in our own apparently with a transfer of meaning. For…

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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