 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pàgines
...Polo, a Florentine fliysieian !" (Quoted in Mart/tarn's Garcilasso tie la Vfga, p. 26.) strange talcs of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its...of SOCOTRA ,• to speak, though indeed dimly, of ZANGIBAR with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast and distant MADAGASCAR, borderingon the Dark... | |
 | Edward Henry Bickersteth (bp. of Exeter) - 1872 - 830 pàgines
...dream-land of Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmins, its obscene Ascetics, its diamonds and the strange...sea-beds of pearl and its powerful sun ; the first in mediaeval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia and the... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pàgines
...dream-land of Alexandrian fables but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange...Island of SOCOTRA ; to speak, though indeed dimly, of ZANGIBAK with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast and distant MADAGASCAR, bordering on the Dark... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pàgines
...dream-land of Alexandrian fables but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Bralimans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange...Island of SOCOTRA ; to speak, though indeed dimly, 0/ZANGIBAR with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast and distant MADAGASCAR, bordering on the... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pàgines
...dream-land of Alexandrian fables but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange...distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire tf/" ABYSSINIA, and the semi-Christian Island of SOCOTRA ; to speak, though indeed dimly, of ZANGIBAR... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 464 pàgines
...dreamland of Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange...sea-beds of pearl, and its powerful sun : the first in mediaeval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and the... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1883 - 492 pàgines
...dream-land of Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored. . . . the first in mediaeval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian empire of Abyssinia, and the semi-Christ i;m Island of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar, and of the vast and... | |
 | Arthur James Weise - 1884 - 442 pàgines
...Marsden, Travels of Marco Polo, p. xxxiii)." Humboldt : Cosmo*. Ottt'i, trans, vol. ii. p. 625. Note. its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange...to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast and distant Madagascar, bordering on the dark ocean of the South,... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pàgines
...strange tales of their acquisition, its scabeds of pearls, and its powerful sun : the first in mcdixval times to give any distinct account of the secluded...Christian empire of Abyssinia, and the semi-Christian isle of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar with its negroes and its ivory, and of... | |
 | 1887 - 942 pàgines
...Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmins, its obscure ascetics, its diamonds and the strange tales of their acquisition, its seabeds of pearls, and its powerful sun : the first in medieval times to give any distinct account of the secluded... | |
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Mountain and its Tomb of Adam; of India The Great, not as a dreamland of Alexandrian fables, but as a country seen and partially explored, with its virtuous... 
