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Continuing their journey, at the rate of four or five pharasangs each day , the ambassadors arrived before day-break of the eighth of Zu'lhajieh, at the imperial city of Khanbalik , or Pekin. This city is so great that each side is a pharasang in length, or about four and a quarter English miles. But at this time 100,000 houses within its walls lay in ruins.
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