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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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500, or 600 in a single flock, and all of them wild ;and though many of them are taken, they never seem toget aught the scarcer.6 Those mountains are so lofty that tis a hard dayswork, from morning till evening, to get to the top ofthem. On getting up, you find an extensive plain, withgreat abundance of grass and trees, and copious springsof pure water running down through rocks and ravines.In those brooks are found trout and many other fish ofdainty kinds ; and the air in those regions is so pure, andresidence there so healthful, that when the men who dwellbelow in the towns, and in the valleys and plains, find Chap. XXIX. THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN 159 themselves attacked by any kind of fever or other ailmentthat may hap, they lose no time in going to the hills ; andafter abiding there two or three days, they quite recovertheir health through the excellence of that air. AndMesser Marco said he had proved this by experience : forwhen in those parts he had been ill for about a year, but
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Ancient Silver Patera of debased Greek art, formerly in the possession of the Princes of Badakh-shan, now in the India Museum. (Four-ninths of the diameter of the Original.) as soon as he was advised to visit that mountain, he didso and got well at once.7) In this kingdom there are many strait and perilouspasses, so difficult to force that the people have no fear ofinvasion. Their towns and villages also are on lofty hills, l6o MARCO POLO Book I. and in very strong positions.8 They are excellent archers,and much given to the chase; indeed, most of them aredependent for clothing on the skins of beasts, for stuffsare very dear among them. The great ladies, however,are arrayed in stuffs, and I will tell you the style of theirdress ! They all wear drawers made of cotton cloth, andinto the making of these some will put 60, 80, or even100 ells of stuff. This they do to make themselves looklarge in the hips, for the men of those parts think that tobe a great beauty in a woman.9 Note i.—The

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