 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pàgines
...were made into great heaps by the way-side, in order to guide travellers when snow was on the ground.] The Plain is called PAMIER, and you ride across it...out so much heat as usual, nor does it cook food so effectually.1 Now, if we go on with our journey towards the eastnorth-east, we travel a good forty... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pàgines
...were made into great heaps by the way-side, in order to guide travellers when snow was on the ground.] The Plain is called PAMIER, and you ride across it...out so much heat as usual, nor does it cook food so effectually.2 over mountains and hills, or through valleys, and crossing many rivers and tracts of... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pàgines
...were made into great heaps by the way-side, in order to guide travellers when snow was on the ground.] The Plain is called PAMIER, and you ride across it...out so much heat as usual, nor does it cook food so effectually.3 Now, if we go on with our journey towards the eastnorth-east, we travel a good forty... | |
 | 1880 - 812 pàgines
...fine river running through a plain. The plain is called Pamier, and you ride across it south to north for twelve days together, finding nothing but a desert...as usual, nor does it cook food so effectually.'' Let an Alpine climber, or a tourist standing for his brief hour on the summit of Mont Blanc, look around... | |
 | 1880 - 818 pàgines
...The plain is called Pamier, and you ride across it south to north for twelve days together, fmding nothing but a desert without habitations or any green...heat as usual, nor does it cook food so effectually." Let an Alpine climber, or a tourist standing for his brief hour on the summit of Mont Blanc, look around... | |
 | 1880 - 432 pàgines
...so lofty and cold that you do not even sec any birds flying. And I must notice also thaj. bec-iuse of this great cold, fire does not burn so brightly...heat as usual, nor does it cook food so effectually. Let an Alpine climber, or a tourist standing for his brief hour on the summit of Mont Blanc, look around... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 464 pàgines
...lofty and so cold, that not a bird is to be seen. And I must also observe that, owing to this extreme cold, fire does not burn so brightly, nor give out so much heat as usual, nor does it cook food so thoroughly. " Now, if we continue our journey towards the eastnorth-east, we travel fully forty days,... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - 1893 - 348 pàgines
...birds flying. And I must notice also that, because of this great cold, fire does not burn so brightljr, nor give out so much heat as usual, nor does it cook food so effectually. " Cascar [Kashgar] is a region lying between northeast and east, and constituted a kingdom in former... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1896 - 572 pàgines
...the wayside, in order to guide travellers when snow was on the ground. The Plain is called PAMIEK, and you ride across it for twelve days together, finding...so effectually. Now, if we go on with our journey toward the eastnorth-east, we travel a good forty days, continually passing over mountains and hills,... | |
 | 1901 - 800 pàgines
...the Pamir — "the roof of the world" — he says : "The region is so lofty and cold that you do not see any birds flying. And I must notice also that...heat as usual, nor does it cook food so effectually." What an extravagant story this must have seemed to the people of Venice, who lived at the level of... | |
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The plain is called PAMIER, and you ride across it for twelve days together, finding nothing but a desert without habitations or any green thing, so that travellers are obliged to carry with them whatever they have need of. The region is so lofty and... 
