This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...ate different herbs and roots. A necessity of their diet was salt, without which he says their mouths swelled and festered. On the march the Khan went first, then herds of horses, sixty, one hundred, or two hundred together, then camels and oxen, and lastly, small beasts--a procession six days' journey long- ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 edition. Excerpt: ...ate different herbs and roots. A necessity of their diet was salt, without which he says their mouths swelled and festered. On the march the Khan went first, then herds of horses, sixty, one hundred, or two hundred together, then camels and oxen, and lastly, small beasts--a procession six days' journey long--and this was only the advanced division. " We stood on the walls," say- Barbaro " (for we kept the gates shut), and in the evening we were weary of looking, for the multitude of these people and beasts was such that the diameter of the plain which they occupied seemed a Paganea of 120 miles." At Bosagaj, on the Don, where Barbaro had a fishing place, the fishermen told him that after fishing all winter they had salted a great quantity of moroni and caviare, but the invading Tartars had carried off all their fish, both fresh and salt, and also their salt, nor did they even leave the barrels, but broke them up, perchance, he says, to use the staves to trim their carts with, and broke three small mills which were there to grind salt, merely to get the little iron in them. They even found a cache of thirty barrels of caviare which had been buried by one Zuan de Valle, who burnt wood over the spot tp hide it. The people, he says, were accompanied by innumerable carts with two wheels, " higher than ours," partly covered with cloth and partly with felt, and closed with mats(-'., arabas). Some of the-e carts carried their yurts. B-rb-re, 10. Golden Horde, 389. 1 Barbuo, 10, n.: J., i; After Kuchuk Muhammed had passed on two days he was followed by his brother-in-law Kdelmugh (i.e., Aadil Mulk), who was entertained by Barbaro in his own house at Tana for two days, and who entreated him to accompany him. This he agreed to...
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