 | 1887 - 942 pàgines
...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...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 - 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... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1896 - 548 pàgines
...Cochin China, Japan, the Indian Archipelago, Ceylon, Farther India, and the Andaman Islands; the first to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian empire of Abyssinia ; the first to speak even vaguely of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and other regions in the mysterious South,... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1896 - 572 pàgines
...Cochin China, Japan, the Indian Archipelago, Ceylon, Farther India, and the Andaman Islands; the first to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian empire of Abyssinia ; the first to speak even vaguely of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and other regions in the mysterious South,... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 308 pàgines
...Cochin China, Japan, the Indian Archipelago, Ceylon, Farther India, and the Andaman Islands ; the first to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian empire of Abyssinia ; the first to speak even vaguely of Zanzibar, Madagascar, and other regions in the mysterious South,... | |
 | 1903 - 1122 pàgines
...partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmins, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its...island of Socotra ; to speak, though indeed dimly, of Zanzibar with its negroes and its ivory, and of the vast and distant Madagascar, bordering on the Dark... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 812 pàgines
...partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its powerful sun ; the first in mediceval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of ABYSSINIA, and the... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 918 pàgines
...strange tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its powerful sun ; the first in medicuval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of ABYSSINIA, and tht semi-Christian Island of SOCOTRA/ to speak, though indeed dimly, of ZANGIBAR with its negroes and... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1903 - 828 pàgines
...partially explored, with its virtuous Brahmans, its obscene ascetics, its diamonds and the strange tales of their acquisition, its sea-beds of pearl, and its powerful sun ; the first in mediaval times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of ABYSSINIA, and the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1904 - 688 pàgines
...of Abyssinia and the semi-Christian island of Socotra; 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 with its Rue and other monstrosities, and, in a remotely opposite... | |
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... times to give any distinct account of the secluded Christian Empire of Abyssinia, and the semi-Christian Island of Socotra; to speak, though indeed dimly, of... 
