 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 698 pages
...Marco Polo, cap. xxix., " On the Province of Badashan " (see Yule's ed., i. 149). Marco Polo says: "All those of the royal blood are descended from King Alexander and the daughter of King Darius. And all these kings call themselves in the Saracen tongue Zulcarniain, that is to say, Alexander, and... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1887 - 700 pages
...Marco Polo, cap. xxix., " On the Province of Badashan " (see Yule's ed., i. 149). Marco Polo aays: "All those of the royal blood are descended from King Alexander and the daughter of King Dariue. And all these kings call themselves in the Saracen tongue Zulcarniain, that is to say, Alexander,... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1871 - 624 pages
...XXIX. OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN. BADASHAN is a Province inhabited by people who worship Mahommet, and have a peculiar language. It forms a very great...which is as much as to say Alexander; and this out of regard for Alexander the Great.1 It is in this province that those fine and valuable gems the Balas... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 672 pages
...XXIX. OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN. BADASHAN is a Province inhabited by people who worship Mahommet, and have a peculiar language. It forms a very great...which is as much as to say Alexander ; and this out of regard for Alexander the Great.1 It is in this province that those fine and valuable gems the Balas... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 730 pages
...XXIX. OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN. BADASHAN is a Province inhabited by people who worship Mahommet, and have a peculiar language. It forms a very great...which is as much as to say Alexander ; and this out of regard for Alexander the Great.1 It is in this province that those fine and valuable gems the Balas... | |
 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1875 - 862 pages
...XXIX. OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN. BADASHAN is a Province inhabited by people who worship Mahommet, and have a peculiar language. It forms a very great...these kings call themselves in the Saracen tongue ZULCARMAIN, which is as much as to say Alexander ; and this out of regard for Alexander the Great.1... | |
 | Bayard Taylor - Asia, Central - 1893 - 348 pages
...travellers.) Beyond that place, Polo passed through Taican [the modern Talikan] and Casern [Kishin] to the province of Badashan [now Badakhshan], which...descended from King Alexander and the daughter of King Darins, who was Lord of the vast Empire of Persia. And all these kings call themselves in the Saracen... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - Children's literature - 1896 - 548 pages
...nothing : OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN. BADASHAN is a Province inhabited by people who worship Mahommet, and have a peculiar language. It forms a very great...as much as to say " Alexander " ; and this out of regard for Alexander the Great. It is in this province that those fine and valuable gems, the Balas... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - Asia - 1897 - 318 pages
...then : OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN. BADASHAN is a Province inhabited by people who worship Mahommet, and have a peculiar language. It forms a very great...as much as to say " Alexander " ; and this out of regard for Alexander the Great. It is in this province that those fine and valuable gems, the Balas... | |
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OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN. BADASHAN is a Province inhabited by people who worship Mahommet, and have a peculiar language. It forms a very great kingdom, and the royalty is hereditary. All those of the royal blood are descended from King Alexander and... 
