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Page 103
... describes how strangers were received in audience . Ghistele ( p . 141 ) describes Kait - Bey as a man of middle stature , having a long white beard , well into the seventies , and shewing signs of having been in his youth a graceful ...
... describes how strangers were received in audience . Ghistele ( p . 141 ) describes Kait - Bey as a man of middle stature , having a long white beard , well into the seventies , and shewing signs of having been in his youth a graceful ...
Page 127
... describe how the beasts climbed up a circular stairway and were unloaded through windows until the granaries were filled ... describes how the balsam is taken . According to him the first was the best , not the last as von Harff tells us ...
... describe how the beasts climbed up a circular stairway and were unloaded through windows until the granaries were filled ... describes how the balsam is taken . According to him the first was the best , not the last as von Harff tells us ...
Page 230
... describes it as a fine and noble city , rich in merchandize and full of merchants , both Christian and heathen . The city was gay with gardens and well supplied with streams of water and fountains . The people were skilled artizans ...
... describes it as a fine and noble city , rich in merchandize and full of merchants , both Christian and heathen . The city was gay with gardens and well supplied with streams of water and fountains . The people were skilled artizans ...
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