Bk.I. Epit. ch. 31, and II. 31.) The silver chair has come down to our own day in India, and is much affected bynative princes. Note 4.—I have not been able to find any allusion, except in our author, totablets, with gerfalcons {shonkdr). The shonkdr appears, however, according toErdmann, on… … Sculptured Gerfalcon. (From the Gate of Iconium.) VOL I. Z 2 356 MARCO POLO Book II. invested with both the Mongol symbols of delegated sovereignty, the Golden LionsHead, and the golden Cats Head. It would certainly have been more satisfactoryto find Gerfalcons Head;; in lieu of the latter ; but it…
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