He makes them take of the bark of a certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts are full of them. What they take is a certain fine white bast or... China - Pàgina 31per Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas - 1899 - 456 pàginesVisualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
| Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pàgines
...certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...into something resembling sheets of paper, but black. When these sheets have been prepared they are cut up into pieces of different sizes. The smallest of... | |
| Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pàgines
...certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...into something resembling sheets of paper, but black. When these sheets have been prepared they are cut up into pieces of different sizes. The smallest of... | |
| Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pàgines
...certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...into something resembling sheets of paper, but black. When these sheets have been prepared they are cut up into pieces of different sizes. The smallest of... | |
| Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pàgines
...certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...into something resembling sheets of paper, but black. When these sheets have been prepared they are cut up into pieces of different sizes. The smallest of... | |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai - 1876 - 704 pàgines
...of a certain tree in fact the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...wood of the tree and the thick outer bark, and this theymake into something resembling sheets of paper, but black. When these sheets have been prepared... | |
| Willem Vissering - 1877 - 288 pàgines
...certain tree , in fact of the Mulberry Tree , the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms , — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...between the wood of the tree and the thick outer bark, aud this they make into something resembling sheets of paper, but black4). When these sheets have been... | |
| Henry Varnum Poor - 1878 - 272 pàgines
...certain tree, in fact of the mulberry-tree, the Leaves of which are tiie food of the silkworm. * * * What they take is a certain fine white bast, or skin,...into something resembling sheets of paper, but black. When these sheets have been prepared, they are cut up into pieces of different sizes. The smallest... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pàgines
...certain tree, in fact of the mulberry tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...into something resembling sheets of paper but black. When these sheets have been prepared they are cut up into pieces of different sizes. [The denominations... | |
| Marco Polo - 1903 - 828 pàgines
...certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...into something resembling sheets of paper, but black. When these sheets have been prepared they are cut up into pieces of different sizes. The smallest of... | |
| Charles Jesse Bullock - 1907 - 732 pàgines
...certain tree, in fact of the Mulberry Tree, the leaves of which are the food of the silkworms, — these trees being so numerous that whole districts...lies between the wood of the tree and the thick outer 1 Travels of Marco Polo, edited by Henry Yule, I, pp. 423-420 [London, bark, and this they make into... | |
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