 He is of a good stature, neither tall nor short, but of a middle height. He has a becoming amount of flesh, and is very shapely in all his limbs. His complexion is white and red, the eyes black and fine, the nose well formed and well set on." His conquest...  The History of China - Pàgina 356per Demetrius Charles Boulger - 1898Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland. North China Branch, Shanghai - 1876 - 704 pàgines
...appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whoso name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you. He is of a good stature, neither tall nor short, but...black and fine, the nose well formed and well set on. He has four wives, whom he retains permanently as his legitimate consorts ; and the eldest of his sons... | |
 | Marco Polo, Sir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier - 1993 - 788 pàgines
...appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell you. He is of a good stature, neither tall nor short, but...complexion is white and red, the eyes black and fine, t the nose well formed and well set on. He has four wives, whom he retains permanently as his legitimate... | |
 | Geoffrey Chaucer - 1874 - 420 pàgines
...appearance of the Great Kaan, Lord of Lords, whose name is Cublay, is such as I shall now tell yOu. He is of a good stature, neither tall nor short, but...black and fine, the nose well formed and well set on:' ed. Yule, i. 318. A portrait of him, from a Chinese engraving, is given by Colonel Yule on the next... | |
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