Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central AsiaScribner, Armstrong, and Company, 1874 - 365 pagina's |
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Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central Asia Bayard Taylor Volledige weergave - 1892 |
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Adolf Schlagintweit afterwards Ahmed Shah appearance arabah Argoon arrived ascended brought called Cashmere Central Asia Charchan Chinese cloth crossed dastar-khân desert distance Diwân east English Englishman envoy feet foot Governor Hayward height hills Himalaya Hindoo horses India Indus Iskardo Jooma journey Karakash Karakash River Karakoram Karakoram Pass Kâshghar Khan Khiva Khokand Khoten King Kirghiz Ladâk lake letter Little Tibet Marco Marco Polo matchlock Mihmandâr miles Moonshee morning mountains Mussulman native officers Oxus Pamir Panjal pass Persian plain present Rajah range reached region replied ride ridge rise river road robe rode roof round Russian Sahib Sanjoo Sarikol Schlagintweit sent servants Shaghâwal Shahidoolla Shaw Shayok sheep side Sikhs sitting slopes snow snowy stream summit table-land tent Tibet Tibetan told took Toorkee Toorkistân town traveller trees valley Vigne village wall wild Yakoob yaks yards Yârkand Yooz Yoozbashee
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Pagina 63 - As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds, Dislodging from a region scarce of prey To gorge the flesh of lambs or yeanling kids On hills where flocks are fed, flies toward the springs Of Ganges or Hydaspes, Indian streams; But in his way lights on the barren plains Of Sericana, where Chineses drive With sails and wind their cany waggons light...
Pagina 31 - OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN. BADASHAN is a Province inhabited by people who worship Mahommet, and have a peculiar language. It forms a very great kingdom, and the royalty is hereditary. All those of the royal blood are descended from King Alexander and the daughter of King Darius, who was Lord of the vast Empire of Persia. And all these kings call themselves in the Saracen tongue ZULCARNIAIN, which is as much as to say Alexander ; and this out of regard for Alexander the Great.1 It is in this province...
Pagina 40 - Now, such persons as propose to cross the Desert take a week's rest in this town to refresh themselves and their cattle ; and then they make ready for the journey, taking with them a month's supply for man and beast. On quitting this city they enter the Desert.
Pagina 23 - Kublai after a time, seeing his discretion and ability, began to employ him in the public service. M. Pauthier has found a record in the Chinese Annals of the Mongol Dynasty, which states that in the year 1277, a certain POLO was nominated a second-class...
Pagina 30 - Can, he would speak of his revenues as amounting to ten or fifteen millions of gold ; and in like manner, when recounting other instances of great wealth in those parts, would always make use of the term millions, so they gave him the nickname of MESSER MARCO MILLIONI : a thing which I have noted also in the Public Books of this Republic where mention is made of him.* The Court of his House, too, at S.
Pagina 97 - ... and a note containing a fresh and still more pressing invitation from his master. Such well-timed civility is irresistible ; his heart and his boots thaw together, and he at once accepts the hospitality of the mokym, who it may be, is awaiting the traveller, with a friendly hug, at the bottom of the pass, two or three days' journey from the city, to which he obsequiously conducts him.
Pagina 41 - On quitting this city they enter the Desert. The length of this Desert is so great that 'tis said it would take a year and more to ride from one end of it to the other. And here, where its breadth is least, it takes a month to cross it. 'Tis all composed of hills and valleys of sand, and not a thing to eat is to be found on it.
Pagina 32 - ... the stones out of the kingdom. But the King amasses them all, and sends them to other kings when he has tribute to render, or when he desires to offer a friendly present; and such only as he pleases he causes to be sold. Thus he acts in order to keep the Balas at a high value; for if he were to allow everybody to dig, they would extract so many that the world would be glutted with them, and they would cease to bear any value. Hence it is that he allows so few to be taken out, and is so strict...
Pagina 22 - Judging from certain indications we conceive it probable that the three Venetians, whose second start from Acre took place about November 1271, proceeded by Ayas and Sivas, and then by Mardin, Mosul, and Baghdad, to Hormuz...