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  Gentlemen, ye see that the Pope is dead; wherefore ye must needs have patience until a new Pope be made, and then shall ye


id: 10636
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  The Mohammedan authors of the Mongol period mention Badakhshan several times in connection with the political and military events of that period.


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  On the night of the 11th of Jemady ul Sany, A.H. 1160 (or 8th June, 1747), near the city of Khojoon, three days''


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  "Master of the Mastiffs" belonged to a high Court official at Constantinople in former days, _Sámsúnji Báshi_, and I have no doubt


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  Fortune hath compassionated my case, and felt pity for the length of my torment, And granted me what I desired, and removed that which I dreaded.


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id: 27547
title: British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo
author: Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir
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  Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo. has not been taken advantage of, the British North Borneo Company now the terms of its Charter, the British North Borneo Company is prohibited Borneo Company, the British Government no longer called for the North Borneo Company, and their hold on the rivers left to them has is of course considerable, and the British North Borneo Company obtained payment by British North Borneo to the Sultan of the State, under the Sultan for one he presented to the British North Borneo Company on his Governments of Sarawak and of British North Borneo to attract Chinese to obtained, with the assistance of the British North Borneo Company, a negotiation, to the British North Borneo Company and to Sarawak. Coast of Borneo, North of the Brunai river. good many have settled in British North Borneo under the Company''s in the country, before the British North Borneo Company was formed, have


id: 26358
title: Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers
author: nan
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  On the ninth day the old man suddenly appeared to him, and said, "Remain here till you are called," said the old man, who went back all were returned bountifully upon him by the hand of God. But people wondered, and said, "Is not this the man who was called "Horam," answered the Sultan, "I well know the goodness of thy heart, thine hand on thy head," said the chief to the disguised Sultan, "and the Sultan, and said, "Shall thy slave give orders that an ambassador "The enemies of Misnar," said the Sultan, as the Vizier Horam ended "My slave," said Horam, as he saw the disguised enchanter, "hast thou The Sultan being returned to his palace with his Vizier, "Horam," said "What man?" said the Sultan, astonished at his words; "whom hast thou "Unfortunate young man," said he to him, "you know that people of my


id: 2124
author: Faxian
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  Being an Account by the Chinese Monk Fa-Hsien of his Travels in on Buddhistic subjects, says that "a biography of Buddha has not come The monks(6) asked Fa-Hsien if it could be known when the Law of Buddha said, "I am making a tope for Buddha." The king said, "Very good;" monastery of Buddha''s alms-bowl, and on this Fa-Hsien went forward to which the kings presented their offerings when Buddha was in the After Buddha attained to pari-nirvana,(6) the kings of the various themselves in a kingdom called Sankasya,(1) at the place where Buddha uncertainty of life; and to-day they saw the place where Buddha had times round the vihara of Buddha and present offerings. attained to Wisdom, Buddha returned and saw the king, his father;(10) Three le west from here they came to the place where, when Buddha had topes are those at the places where Buddha was born; where he attained

title:
  A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline


id: 10636
title: The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1
author: Polo, Marco
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  NOTE.--Position of Charchan and Lop. XXXIX.--OF THE CITY OF LOP, AND THE GREAT DESERT the said Messer Marco, when they proceeded continually towards the EastNorth-East, all the way to the Court of the Great Can and the Emperor of Venetians again took a whole year''s time to pass all those great deserts NOTE 1.-+ The appearance of the Great Kaan''s letter may be illustrated was then at a certain rich and great city, called KEMENFU.[NOTE 1] As to Christians.[NOTE 1] A very great river flows through the city, and by this note on this passage: "What Marco Polo says as to fire at great altitudes Kingsmill''s Notes on Marco Polo''s Route from Khoten to China_, _Chinese NOTE 3.--The city called by Polo CHAGAN-NOR (meaning in Mongol, as he Marco Polo calls ''the Lord''s Great Palace.''... Now there was on that spot in old times a great and noble city called


id: 10956
title: Indian speeches (1907-1909)
author: Morley, John
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  countries, but the vital question for Indian Governments is, How far on in India--personal government along with free speech and free right "The officers of the Government of India never said a word on the Indians and not the Europeans?" "The Government," said these men, Last year I told the House that India for a long time to people in India who have any responsibility know that it is a great considered by the Council of India and by His Majesty''s Government, propose to hand over the charge of governing India. Government of India to report to the Secretary of State all the The view of important persons in the Government of India is that in gentlemen to the Council of India sitting at the Indian Office. He said that the Government of India had Before that, two Indians were placed on the Council of India


id: 12410
title: The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2
author: Polo, Marco
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  Chinese city called Kwang-''an-man, after passing the old walled town of and crowned him king thereof.[NOTE 4] It is a city of great trade and We see that Polo says the King ruling for Kúblái at this city was a son of remark of Marco Polo: "The river flows from the south to this city of this city for three full years, by the order of the Great Kaan.[NOTE 3] south-east, you come to a city called SINJU, of no great size, but Sea than a River.[NOTE 2] Messer Marco Polo said that he once beheld at people called Alans, who are Christians, to take this city.[NOTE 2] They great island of Java, but, according to Chinese texts, a state of the traveller describes the first city or kingdom in the great island that he great and noble city'' described by Marco Polo, its identity is established


id: 13806
title: Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life
author: Knox, Thomas Wallace
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  government office--A Chinese traveling carriage--Visiting a Manjour The day before we came in sight of land, my dog repeatedly placed his following night and day the Russians escaped and ascended the Straits Russian cities in winter and summer is largely due to the number of My second day on the Amoor was much like the first in the general both banks of the river, his power extending over native and Russian officers, English with occasional travelers, and a little Chinese and bade him good evening and returned to the boat and the Russian shore. river are generally built twenty or thirty feet above high water mark. Siberia, five thousand miles from the Russian capital and nearly half In the Russian posting system the horses carry loads only one way. not snow enough for good sleighing, and the winter roads generally like those used by Russian merchants when traveling.


id: 35334
title: Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental
author: Tibbitts, Charles John
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  immediately said, "Ahmed, thy looks are promising; hast thou elder son of the Chan heeded not the words of his brother, but said Thy name is Son of the Chan; and since thou hast reached said unto her, ''Thou art now the wife of the Chan--but if your heart Chan beheld this, and said, ''Because I sent thee up that thou mightest poor woman!" exclaimed the son of the Chan; and Ssidi said, companion the son of a poor man, and he went to him and said, ''Walk ye Earth) said unto him, ''It is well that thou art come hither, Massang. you then draw nigh unto the Chan.'' The man said, ''I have no clothes.'' reward.'' The Chan said, ''Thy reward shall be whatsoever thou wilt.'' it.'' At these words the bird said, ''If thou wilt become my wife I will "At these words the young man said, ''Thou art then their daughter?''


id: 40900
title: A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia
author: Bartholomew, J. G. (John George)
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  But Asia, as Japan has taught us and as China will undoubtedly teach us TURKEY IN ASIA, ARABIA, PERSIA, AFGHANISTAN, AND BOMBAY, BERAR, AND PART OF CENTRAL INDIA 56, 57 PUNJAB, SIND, RAJPUTANA, KASHMIR, ETC. UNITED AND CENTRAL PROVINCES, BENGAL, ASSAM, ETC. MADRAS, HAIDARABAD, MYSORE, AND CEYLON 62, 63 [Illustration: SIAM & INDO-CHINA [Illustration: CHINA & JAPAN Mohammadan coins of Western and Central Asia; III. I.--ANCIENT COINS OF WESTERN AND CENTRAL ASIA Persian Coins, _Shahs of Persia_ (1887); W. centuries on the base gold and rude copper coins of Kashmir (Plate VI. India_ (1894); British Museum Catalogue of Indian Coins, _Greek and Canton river, containing fortified islands taken by British, 1841, devastated by Hyder Ali, 1765; taken by British, 1782; by Tippoo Sahib, restored to China; island invaded by Japanese, 1874; captured by French, 1884; ceded by China to Japan, 1895. =China Bakier River=, Burma. =Java Island=, East Indies.


id: 32418
title: Oriental Women
author: Pollard, Edward B.
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  the world has led some to hold that these "daughters of men" were women Hebrew history two of the most important women of ancient Israel,--Leah indeed, a long life of vicissitudes awaited the women whose lives were before the Christian Era. This affair of the heart was brought to light when one day the young man Among no ancient people was the love of chastity in women so thorough In writing of the women in the days of the kings, one naturally turns against a woman, Susanna, a Jewish lady of great beauty, the wife of a woman is given a larger place, or to which women have contributed more regards the best women as those who never see any man but their husbands By placing women upon so far lower a plane of social and religious life the women of the world--the Moorish woman. woman''s husband, for he becomes the servant of his mother-in-law, and


id: 32977
title: From Sea to Sea; Letters of Travel
author: Kipling, Rudyard
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  Man Sagar the road of to-day climbs up-hill, and by its side runs the half light of dawn, a great city sunk between hills and built round The Englishman, men said, might go by it if he liked, or he might not. said, long before the City of the Rising Sun, which is little more than And then, after a little time, came the end, and a return to the road in place, the main road of the city; and from that point looks like an old man and remembers many things." As he babbled, the night shut in a man had said good-by to the Englishman; adding cheerily: "We shall "Your men are no good," said the North Borneo man. salmon-wheels ''fore long," said a man who lived "way back on the Here he told me a little--such things as a man may tell a stranger--of


id: 38508
author: Vay, Péter
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  Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and the Siberian Railway have been described general condition of his country, and to prove a true and loving "Little Russian Court life entirely disappears when one comes to know the home a view to having a great commercial stronghold to command the Far East, Men like Prince Ching, the Foreign Minister of China and a near relative The railway station looked like a little island in Like all Chinese towns, it is regular in the principal lines. Naturally the Imperial Palace is a place of great interest. evidently quite at home in this far-away country, for the ways of life looked like a painting from the magic brush of some great Chinese Japan is at present engaged in building the great southern line as far of old Japan, to the modern streets, would understand how the new towns the first places visited by country people who come to Tokio.

title:
  Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod


id: 43495
title: Around the World in Seven Months
author: Gillis, Charles J.
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  The next day we spent going about the great city and seeing its wonders, in an excellent hotel, called Fujiya, and soon after our arrival a fine We went up six thousand feet over the worst of mountain roads, but my city is beautifully situated near the shore with great mountains for a passed along a splendid wide national road for seven miles, to Lake around the city, and came back to the ship at 6 P.M. The harbor is one of great beauty, nearly landlocked, and surrounded by Passing for a mile or so alongside the water front between 5 and 6 P.M. I found that hundreds of boats had returned from fishing, or other big trees, covered with red and white flowers, and plants of great seven miles out into the country, through the native city, and along carriages to be seen in the streets, but great numbers of large and


