 | Marco Polo - Asia - 1903 - 812 pages
...[There are in each of the suburbs, to a distance of a mile from the city, numerous fine hostelries 2 for the lodgment of merchants from different parts...Frenchmen.] And thus there are as many good houses outside 1 BOOK II. of the city as inside, without counting those that belong to the great lords and barons,... | |
 | Charles Raymond Beazley - Discoveries in geography - 1906 - 802 pages
...and one of these caravanserais was assigned to the traders of each race, description, or country ; ' as if we should say, there is one for the Lombards,...another for the Germans, and a third for the Frenchmen.' In Peking, also, was the mint 2 where the Emperor coined his money out of bark, thus proving that he... | |
 | Delphian Society - Civilization - 1911 - 576 pages
...There are in each of the suburbs, to a distance of a mile from the city, numerous fine hostelries " for the lodgment of merchants from different parts...another for the Germans, and a third for the Frenchmen. To this city also are brought articles of greater cost and rarity, and in greater abundance of all... | |
 | American essays - 1909 - 872 pages
...therefore are many fine hostelries for the lodgment of merchants from all parts, a special hostelry being assigned to each description of people, as if we should...Frenchmen. And thus there are as many good houses outside the city as inside." For the Peking of those days was one of the world's great markets. Polo indeed... | |
 | Marco Polo, Sir Henry Yule, Henri Cordier - Travel - 1993 - 788 pages
...[There are in each of the suhurhs, to a distance of a mile from the city, numerous fine hostelries2 for the lodgment of merchants from different parts...of people, as if we should say there is one for the Lomhards, another for the Germans, and a third for the Frenchmen.] And thus there are as many good... | |
 | American essays - 1909 - 934 pages
...therefore are many fine hostelries for the lodgment of merchants from all parts, a special hostelry being assigned to each description of people, as if we should...Frenchmen. And thus there are as many good houses outside the city as inside." For the Peking of those days was one of the world's great markets. Polo indeed... | |
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... for the lodgment of merchants from different parts of the world, and a special hostelry is assigned to each description of people, as if we should say there is one for the Lombards, another for the Germans, and a third for the Frenchmen... 