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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 150

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three months of the year, towit, December, January, and February, the Great Kaanresides in the capital city of Cathay, which is called Cam-BALUC, and which is at the northeastern extremity of thecountry. In that city stands his great Palace, and nowI will tell you what it is like. It is enclosed… … and fine, the nose wellformed and well seton. But the portraitof Kublai Khan, drawnby a Chinese artist, does not exactly correspondwith the pen portrait given here by Marco. Weknow also, from Marcos own narrative, thatthe Emperor was subject to gout in his laterlife, and we are led to infer that he…

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