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Title: Marco Polo; his travels and adventures
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Towle, George M. (George Makepeace), 1841-1893
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323?
Publisher: Boston, Lee and Shepard New York. C. T. Dillingham
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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the rude canoes furnished to him by-friendly natives, he was assailed by showers ofarrows and javelins, some of which did fatalwork among his escort. Nor were the menaces of the wild beasts to bedespised. In the night, especially, the deep andawful stillness of the misty African jungle wasroughly broken by the roaring of hungry lions,and the bellowing of hippopotami and rhinocer-oses. A constant watch was the only safetyfrom the fell assaults of these half-famishedmonsters. But Marco and his companions had now be-come quite used to roughing it. His experi-ence in the remotest parts of Tartary and China,his adventures in the islands and in the depths ofHindoostan, had not only hardened his sense ofperil, but had taught him how to pass throughthe dangers of the jungle and the forest. In duetime, the Tartar train crossed the confines ofAbyssinia, and found themselves on the way toits capital. Marco at once made himself known as anEuropean and a Christian; and his light complexion p crej
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IN AFRICA. I87 I and regular features showed the Abyssinians thathe was not deceiving them, in spite of his Orientaldress and company, No sooner did they recog-nize him as a brother in religion, than the nativesoverwhelmed him with the warmth of theirwelcome. They entertained him on such rudefare as their huts provided ; they guided him, instrong companies, through dangerous parts of thecountry; and they paddled him in their biggestcanoes across the lakes and up the reed-borderedrivers. The young traveller observed all that he sawand heard with the keenest interest; for hewished to carry back as minute an account aspossible of this land of sable Christians. Hesoon learned that it was ruled over by a power-ful emperor, under whom there were six kings,each of whom reigned over the six large prov-inces into which Abyssinia was divided. Threeof these kings were Christians, and three wereMohammedans, the subjects of each being of thesame faith as their sovereign. The emperorhimself was a C

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