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So for as was travelled by Rubruquis, and in the route which he pursued on the north of the Alak mountains, this observation is quite correct to longitude 100° E. But what he here adds respecting Kathay, is directly contradictory to the fact; as all the rivers beyond Caracarum run in an easterly direction.
Bosh nothing I have said." And the pacha remained some time smoking his pipe in silence. "May it please your highness," observed Mustapha, "I have outside a wretch who is anxious to crawl into your presence. He comes from the far-distant land of Kathay an unbeliever, with two tails." "Two tails! was he a pacha in his own country?" "A pacha! Staffir Allah! God forgive me!
Leaving this place, and travelling three days journey towards the south of the province of Kathay, subject to the great khan, is the great city of Ciangu. They are idolaters, who burn their dead, and their money is the mulberry paper coin of the khan.
The vast nation, sometimes called Turks, sometimes Tatars, was distributed, according to all Oriental geographers, over all the countries of Northern Asia, from the river Jihun or Oxus to Kathay or China. That the Turks and the Arabs, both bent upon a persistent policy of conquest, should come into more or less hostile contact was inevitable.
Over each gate there is a pavilion of two stories, the roof of which is tiled with porcelain, and is shaped like an asses back, or penthouse, according to the fashion of Kathay, which is likewise followed in Mazanderan. Each of the temples in this place occupy nearly ten arpents of ground, and all are very neat, with their brick pavements polished like glass.
The ordinary money of Kathay is of paper made like pasteboard, the breadth and length of a hand, on which lines are printed, like the seal of Mangu. They write with a pencil like that used by our painters, and in one figure they comprehend many letters, forming one word . The people of Thibet write as we do, and their characters are very like our own.
During the three winter months of December, January, and February, Kublai-khan generally resides in Cambalu which is at the north-east border of Kathay. On the north part of the new city stands the great palace of the khan.
Forst. Hist. of Voy. and Disc. in the North, p. 113. Geographical Notices of the East in the Thirteenth Century, by Haitho. The empire of Kathay is one of the most extensive, most opulent, and most populous in the world, and is entirely situated on the sea coast.
Gamalecco is undoubtedly Cambalu, Cambalig, or Khan-balig, otherwise Pekin; exactly as Gattay is substituted for Katay Kathay, or Cathay. Forst. Voyages of Nicolo and Antonio Zeno in 1380. Although we have admitted this article into our collection, on the authority of Ramusio and J. R. Forster, we are disposed to consider the whole as a fabrication, altogether unworthy of any credit.
The great majority of the troops in Mangi are Kathayans, and the garrisons in Kathay are composed of people from Mangi.
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