Works, Volume 38Kraus Reprint, 1967 - Geography |
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Page 95
... Persian court from the Emperor of China , bringing splendid presents . Among these are mentioned a panther formed of pearls with eyes of rubies ; a silk robe of ultramarine blue of extraordinary splendour on which was represented in ...
... Persian court from the Emperor of China , bringing splendid presents . Among these are mentioned a panther formed of pearls with eyes of rubies ; a silk robe of ultramarine blue of extraordinary splendour on which was represented in ...
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... Persian writers , and appears in Marco Polo as applied to the dethroned Sung emperor in the form Facfur ( ii , p . 148 ) . [ Baghbür , Faghfür , are the Arabic forms of the Persian Baghpur , Son of God , translation of T'ien tze , in ...
... Persian writers , and appears in Marco Polo as applied to the dethroned Sung emperor in the form Facfur ( ii , p . 148 ) . [ Baghbür , Faghfür , are the Arabic forms of the Persian Baghpur , Son of God , translation of T'ien tze , in ...
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... Persia in a comparatively short time , whilst the distance from Persia by sea is vastly greater . For , in the first place , just as great a distance as the Persian Gulf runs up into Persia has the voyager to Tzinitza to run up from ...
... Persia in a comparatively short time , whilst the distance from Persia by sea is vastly greater . For , in the first place , just as great a distance as the Persian Gulf runs up into Persia has the voyager to Tzinitza to run up from ...
Contents
Dedication and Preface | 1 |
late and then in the forms Thin Thinae Sinae | 8 |
the indication of the Chinese empire from the landward Inferior | 13 |
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