The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian : concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East (1871)
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323, Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · London : John Murray · leaf 292
, 37). Neither name is quite lost: the latter greaterisland is Kishm or Brakht; the former Jerihi, probably in old PersianGeriui or Gerdji, now again desert though no longer bushy, after havingbeen for three centuries the site of a city which became a poetic type ofwealth and splendour. An Eastern… … Chap. XIX. STITCHED BOATS. IO9 and Dioscorides, according to Kampfer, who says it was in his timemade under the name of a medicinal stomachic; the rich added RadixChinae, ambergris, and aromatic spices; the poor liquorice and Persianabsinth. {Sir B. Frere; Amocfi. Exot. 750; Macd. Kinneir, 220.)…
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Voyages and travels · Mongols · Early maps · Inscriptions, Chinese
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