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Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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cos Cane Palace. (Cathay, pp. 261-262.) ( The Palace of canes is probably the Palm Hall, Tsung tien, alias Tsung maotien, of the Chinese authors, which was situated in the western palace garden ofShangtu. Mention is made also in the Allan 7bbchi of a cane tent in Shangtu.(Palladium, p. 27.)—H. C) runs another wall, which fetches a compass and encloses a good 16 miles of plain, and so that no onecan enter this enclosure except by passing through the palace. Chap. LXI. THE KAANS PALACE AT SHANGTU 307 Marco might well say of the bamboo that it serves also a great variety of otherpurposes. An intelligent native of Arakan who accompanied me in wanderings onduty in the forests of the Burmese frontier in the beginning of 1S53, and who used toask many questions about Europe, seemed able to apprehend almost everything exceptthe possibility of existence in a country without bamboos ! When I speak of bamboohuts, I mean to say that posts and walls, wall-plates and rafters, floor and thatch, and
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Pavilion at Yuen-ming-Yuen. the withes that bind them, are all of bamboo. In fact, it might almost be said thatamong the Indo-Chinese nations the staff of life is a bamboo ! Scaffolding and ladders,landing-jetties, fishing apparatus, irrigation wheels and scoops, oars, masts, and yards(and in China, sails, cables, and caulking, asparagus, medicine, and works of fantasticart), spears and arrows, hats and helmets, bow, bowstring and quiver, oil-cans, water-VOL. I. 2 U 3o8 MARCO POLO Book I. stoups and cooking-pots, pipe-sticks (tinder and means of producing fire), conduits,clothes-boxes, pawn-boxes, dinner-trays, pickles, preserves, and melodious musicalinstruments, torches, footballs, cordage, bellows, mats, paper ; these are but a few ofthe articles that are made from the bamboo ; and in China, to sum up the whole, asBarrow observes, it maintains order throughout the Empire ! (Ava Mission, p. 153 ;and see also Wallace, Ind. Arch. I. 120 seqq.) Note 5.— The Emperor .... began this ye

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