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 395
untry abounds withwild elephants, but you dont find a single tame one. The Zinjes em-ploy them neither in war nor otherwise, and if they hunt them tis onlyto kill them (III. 7). It is dithtult to conceive how Marco could havegot so much false information. The only beast of burden in Zanzibar,at… … ?j::^-:;;^V^^.^-^^.,^ I^lliiu|)i.iil -Sliccp. so mounted, and armed with lances anti bucklers (ill. 34). iheelephant stories may have arisen from the occasional use of theseanimals by the Kings of Abyssinia. (See Note 4 to next (haptcr.) Note 0. —An approximation to 12,000 as a round number seems…
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Voyages and travels · Mongols · Early maps · Inscriptions, Chinese
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