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 386
it e.Ktends to the sea known as that of Berbera, and stretches from Adento the furthest extremity of Zanjibar ; beyond this goes no vessel onaccount of the great current. Then it extends to what are called theMountains of the Moon, whence spring the sources of the Nile of Egypt,and thence to… … The Kiikh, ifrom Lanes Ar.ibian Nights,} after a Persian drawing. Note 5.—The fable of the Rukh was old and widely spread, likethat of the Male and Female Islands, and, just as in that case, oneaccidental circumstance or another would give it a local habitation, nowhere now there. The Garuda of the…
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Voyages and travels · Mongols · Early maps · Inscriptions, Chinese
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