Identifier: bookofsermarcopo00polo (find matches)
Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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Head of a Native of Kashcar. is subject to the Great Kaan. The people worshipMahommet. There are a crood number of towns and o Chap. XXXIII. THE KINGDOM OF CASCAR 181 villages, but the greatest and finest is Cascar itself. Theinhabitants live by trade and handicrafts; they have
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a VI £oa I* to JS a > beautiful gardens and vineyards, and fine estates, andgrow a great deal of cotton. From this country many .V 182 MARCO POLO Book I. merchants go forth about the world on trading journeys.The natives are a wretched, niggardly set of people;they eat and drink in miserable fashion. There are inthe country many Nestorian Christians, who havechurches of their own. The people of the countryhave a peculiar language, and the territory extendsfor five days journey.1 Note i.—(There is no longer any difficulty in understanding how the travellers, aftercrossing Pamir, should have arrived at Kashgar if they followed the route fromTashkurgan through the Gez Defile. The Itinerary of the Mirza from Badakhshan (Faizabad) is the following : Zebak,Ishkashm, on the Panja, which may be considered the beginning of the WakhanValley, Panja Fort, in Wakhan, Raz Khan, Patur, near Lunghar (commencementof Pamir Steppe), Pamir Kul, or Barktit Yassin, 13,300 feet, Aktash, Sirikul Tash-k

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