| Marco Polo - 1903 - 812 pàgines
...[There are in each of the suburbs, to a distance of a mile from the city, numerous fine hostelries 2 for the lodgment of merchants from different parts...Frenchmen.] And thus there are as many good houses outside 1 BOOK II. of the city as inside, without counting those that belong to the great lords and barons,... | |
| Charles Raymond Beazley - 1906 - 802 pàgines
...and one of these caravanserais was assigned to the traders of each race, description, or country ; ' as if we should say, there is one for the Lombards,...another for the Germans, and a third for the Frenchmen.' In Peking, also, was the mint 2 where the Emperor coined his money out of bark, thus proving that he... | |
| Delphian Society - 1911 - 576 pàgines
...There are in each of the suburbs, to a distance of a mile from the city, numerous fine hostelries " for the lodgment of merchants from different parts...another for the Germans, and a third for the Frenchmen. To this city also are brought articles of greater cost and rarity, and in greater abundance of all... | |
| 1909 - 872 pàgines
...therefore are many fine hostelries for the lodgment of merchants from all parts, a special hostelry being assigned to each description of people, as if we should...Frenchmen. And thus there are as many good houses outside the city as inside." For the Peking of those days was one of the world's great markets. Polo indeed... | |
| Marco Polo, Sir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier - 1993 - 788 pàgines
...[There are in each of the suhurhs, to a distance of a mile from the city, numerous fine hostelries2 for the lodgment of merchants from different parts...of people, as if we should say there is one for the Lomhards, another for the Germans, and a third for the Frenchmen.] And thus there are as many good... | |
| 1909 - 934 pàgines
...therefore are many fine hostelries for the lodgment of merchants from all parts, a special hostelry being assigned to each description of people, as if we should...Frenchmen. And thus there are as many good houses outside the city as inside." For the Peking of those days was one of the world's great markets. Polo indeed... | |
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