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 468
the account which is given us byEdward Melton, an Anglo-Dutch traveller, of the performances of aChinese gang of conjurors, which he witnessed at Batavia about theyear 1670 (I have forgotten to note the year). After describing veryvividly the basket-murder trick, which is well known in India, and… … Chinese Conjuring Extraordinarj. which surpasses all belief, and which I should scarcely venture to inserthere had it not been witnessed by thousands before my own eyes. Oneof the same gang took a ball of cord, and grasping one end of the cordin his hand slung the other up into the air with such…
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Voyages and travels · Mongols · Early maps · Inscriptions, Chinese
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