 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pàgines
...lost but it shall be straightway found and restored.4 And so the Emperor follows this road that I have mentioned, leading along in the vicinity of the Ocean...inside with plates of beaten gold, and outside with lion's skins [for he always travels in this way on his fowling expeditions, because he is troubled... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1873 - 968 pàgines
...who had a keen relish for the " noble art," tells us that when the emperor went " a-fowling" he was carried upon four elephants in a fine chamber made...plates of beaten gold, and outside with lions' skins, attended by 20,000 huntsmen and 10,000 dogs, moving along abreast of one another, so that the wbole... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pàgines
...but it shall be incontinently found and restored.4 And so the Emperor follows this road that I have mentioned, leading along in the vicinity of the Ocean...his choicest gerfalcons, and is attended by several of his Barons who ride on horseback alongside. And sometimes, as they may be going along, and the Emperor... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pàgines
...but it shall be incontinently found and restored.4 And so the Emperor follows this road that I have mentioned, leading along in the vicinity of the Ocean...his choicest gerfalcons, and is attended by several of his Barons who ride on horseback alongside. And sometimes, as they may be going along, and the Emperor... | |
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai - 1876 - 704 pàgines
...jjjjjf jjftj Jig jjfc ^f Man dune yuen liu k'ao. t See Wylie's Kotcs OH Chinese Literature, p. 158. " The Emperor himself is carried upon four elephants...timber, lined inside with plates of beaten gold, and outBide with lion's skins [for he always travels in this way an his fowling expeditions, because he... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 464 pàgines
...and restored. . . . " The Emperor, on his journey, is borne upon four elephants in a fine pavilion made of timber, lined inside with plates of beaten gold, and outside with lion's skins. He always travels in this fashion on his hunting expeditions, because he is troubled... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Charles Gibbon - 1893 - 484 pàgines
...in the vicinity of the Ocean Sea (which is within two days' journey of his capital city Camboluc), and as he goes, there is many a fine sight to be seen,...his choicest gerfalcons, and is attended by several of his Barons who ride on horseback alongside. And sometimes, as they may be going along, and the Emperor... | |
 | Theodore Roosevelt, George Bird Grinnell - 1895 - 486 pàgines
...bears, wild asses, stags, wolves, foxes, deer and wild goats, and other great and fierce beasts. 255 "The Emperor himself is carried upon four elephants...plates of beaten gold and outside with lions' skins. And sometimes, as they may be going along, and the Emperor from his chamber is holding discourse with... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 318 pàgines
...it shall be soon found and restored without delay. And so the Emperor follows this road that I have mentioned, leading along in the vicinity of the Ocean...his choicest gerfalcons, and is attended by several of his Barons, who ride on horseback alongside. And sometimes, as they may be going along, and the... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1897 - 578 pàgines
...in hawking; in fact, there is no sport in the world to equal it ! The Emperor himself is carriedupon four elephants in a fine chamber made of timber, lined...expeditions, because he is troubled with gout. He alwnys keeps beside him a dozen of his choicest gerfalcons, and is attended by several of his Barons,... | |
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Sea, which is within two days' journey of his capital city Cambaluc, and as he goes there is many a fine sight to be seen, and plenty of the very best entertainment in hawking; in fact, there is no sport in the world to equal it! The Emperor himself is... 
