![]() In the city fifteen thousand priests, and sixty thousand The city as also the triumphal arches, which being Very certain, if we comprehend those which are about Of the number of bridges that are to be seen there, is Short of the greatness he assigns it: for what he says ![]() Things what Marco Polo says of it, comes not much “ Kinsai, now Hangcheu, if we correct in some Ty, it appears, could not be less than about three mil¬ The feast lasted tenĭays, and the magnificence displayed on this occasionĮxceeded all imagination.” The population of this ci¬ They held aĬouncil, re-embarked their troops, and stood out Tartars, wdiich lay near the shore of the island, To blow with great force, and the ships of the “ Some time afterwards a north wind began Seen under the colonnade, at one time, ten thousandĮxcept one, which was carried by assault and The palace of king Fanfur was in¬Ĭlosed with high walls. Thirty thousand soldiers is constantly supported in thisĪstonishing city. Work-shops, each shop employing from ten to twenty There are twelve principal handi¬Ĭraft trades, for each of which there are a thousand There are twelve thousand bridges across the It merits from its pre-eminence above all others in the + “ Kinsai signifies ‘ The Celestial City,’ and which Treated as tributary, Bengal, Ceylon, &c. “ In 1286, ninety-nine foreign vessels, from countries Is conjectured in note 1110, in Marsden’s Marco Polo. De Guines names them Hargan and Ata-į This is most probably Tsuen-cheu, inFokien, as Ouen-hou as commander, and adds the name of Tsin-įan-tcheng. * Meaning, probably, Abaca Khan, a Mongol and Gain possession of any city or fortified place Manders, from jealousy, treated each other’s Tion sailed from Zaitunf and KinsaiJ, and Khan fitted out a numerous fleet, and embark-Įd a large body of troops under the command Mooko himself perished in the waves, and butįew of his men escaped.” - Kcempfers History On the first day of the seventh month, theyĮxcited a violent and dreadful storm, whichĭestroyed all this reputed invincible armada. ![]() Ors of the Japanese empire, were so incensedĪt the insult offered them by the Tartars, that, Thousand men, sent by the Tartar emperor to Upon the coasts of Japan, with a fleet of four Month, the Tartar general, Mooko, appeared His reign, on the twenty-first day of the fifth ![]() WITH TWO MAPS, AND PORTRAITS OF ALL THE INCAS, AND MONTEZUMA.ĪUTHOR OF RESEARCHES ON THE WARS AND SPORTS OFĮither shipwrecked, or perished in the neigh¬īouring islands.” - Du II aide, Vol. History of Peru and Mexico, to the Conquest hy Spain. Full text of " Historical researches on the conquest of Peru, Mexico, Bogota, Natchez, and Talomeco, in the thirteenth century, by the Mongols, accompanied with elephants and the local agreement of history and tradition, with the remains of elephants and mastodontes, found in the New World"ĪND THE LOCAL AGREEMENT OF HISTORY AND TRADITION, WITH THE ![]()
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