But let us begin in the middle of our subject,and look at a picture of this Chinese civilizationthrough the eyes of this first \isitor from theWest to tell us what he saw. The Venetian traveller tells us, in his accountof his travels through Cathay, of how he cameto the most noble city of Kinsay,… … Religion and Xaturc in Oriental y^rt each guild with twelve thousand houses for itsworkmen and a palace of the king who fled, himwho was Emperor of Manzi—the greatest palacein the world— For you must know that itsdemesne hath a compass of ten miles, all enclosedwith lofty battlemented walls; and…
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