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Page xvii
... mountains of the Caspians with bitumen - covered rocks.1 When he saw that the undertaking exceeded the power of man , he invoked the might of the God of Israel , and the tops of the mountains came together , and an inaccessible and ...
... mountains of the Caspians with bitumen - covered rocks.1 When he saw that the undertaking exceeded the power of man , he invoked the might of the God of Israel , and the tops of the mountains came together , and an inaccessible and ...
Page 160
... mountains in the south - east , and there amidst the mountains was visible another big sea , and a river came through that valley from that sea into the first one , and there blows nearly continuously such a wind through that valley ...
... mountains in the south - east , and there amidst the mountains was visible another big sea , and a river came through that valley from that sea into the first one , and there blows nearly continuously such a wind through that valley ...
Page 161
... mountains . I presume that the traveller followed the river Imil up to its source , and then , crossing the Mus tau in a general easterly direction , came to the southern extremity of the Ulungur nor . From this point , the road he ...
... mountains . I presume that the traveller followed the river Imil up to its source , and then , crossing the Mus tau in a general easterly direction , came to the southern extremity of the Ulungur nor . From this point , the road he ...
Contents
PREFACE | ix |
ITINERARY OF FRIAR William of RUBRUCK | xlv |
THE JOURNEY OF FRIAR JOHN OF PIAN DE CARPINE | 1 |
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