chambalu

Updated: August 19, 2026

This is an error in transcription, and it has been already noticed in the introduction to these travels, that Marco could not then have exceeded the ninth year of his age. Bibars el Bentochdari, sultan of Kahira or Cairo, in Egypt, often called Babylon. Forst. Chambalu, or Khan-balu, or the city of the Khan, now Peking. Forst.

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