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least embarrassed. drugs on slips of paper, and these, being rolled up in little balls, are swallowed by the sick man. "To swallow the name of a remedy, or the remedy itself," say the Tatars, "comes to precisely the same thing."

He writes the names of the needed

CHAPTER XI.

WHO WERE GOG AND MAGOG ?—THE SPLENDOURS OF THE COURT OF KUBLAI KHAN-COLERIDGE'S POEM "IN XANADU."

URNING his face again to the eastward, Marco

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takes us to one of the localities near the Great Wall; for although he never once makes mention

of that wonder of the world, many eminent writers suppose that he had in his mind its ramparts when he speaks thus of the region which he says is Tenduc:

"Here also is what we call the country of Gog or Magog; they, however, call it Ung and Mungul, after the names of two races of people that existed in that province before the migration of the Tartars. Ung was the title of the people of the country, and Mungul a name sometimes applied to Tartars."

The Great Wall was built before the Tatars, that is Mongols, had overrun China, and was intended to keep them out. It begins at the Kiayu Pass, near the Desert of Gobi, in one of the extreme western provinces of China, and extends to the mouth of the

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THE GREAT WALL AND THE RAMPART OF GOG AND MAGOG.

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