gate [of Cambalucj thereis a great and handsome palace. I have little doubt that over the gates of Cambaluc,stood lofty buildings similar to those over the gates of modern Peking. These tower-like buildings are called Ion by the Chinese. It may be very likely, that at the timeof Marco Polo, the war… … 368 MARCO POLO Book II. Note 4.—The stores are now outside the walls of the Prohibited City, corres-ponding to Polos Palace-Wall, but within the walls of the Imperial City. {MiddleKingdom, I. 61.) See the cut at p. 376. Note 5.—The two gates near the corners apparently do not exist in the…
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