| Marco Polo - 1871 - 590 páginas
...city stands on the greatest river in the world, the name of which is KIAN. It is in some places ten miles wide, in others eight, in others six, and it...days' journey in length from one end to the other. This it is that brings so much trade to the city we are speaking of ; for on the waters of that river... | |
| Marco Polo - 1875 - 884 páginas
...city stands on the greatest river in the world, the name of which is KIAN. It is in some places ten miles wide, in others eight, in others six, and it...days' journey in length from one end to the other. This it is that brings so much trade to the city we are speaking of ; for on the waters of that river... | |
| John D. Clark - 1894 - 210 páginas
...the New World and its mighty rivers were then unknown. He said the Great Kiang "is in some places ten miles wide, in others eight, in others six, and it is more than a hundred days' journey in length from one end to the other." The length of the Yangtze is known to... | |
| Marco Polo - 1903 - 770 páginas
...'city stands on the greatest river in the world, the name of which is KIAN. It is in some places ten miles wide, in others eight, in others six, and it...days' journey in length from one end to the other. This it is that brings so much trade to the city we are speaking of; for on the waters of that river... | |
| Archibald John Little - 1905 - 376 páginas
...Marco Polo, 600 years ago, in his chapter on the ' Great River Kian ' says, ' It is in some places ten miles wide, in others eight, in others six, and it is more than one hundred days' journey in length from one end to the other ; it seems indeed more like a sea than... | |
| Florence Wheelock Ayscough - 1925 - 474 páginas
...city stands on the greatest river in the world, the name of which is Kian. It is in some places ten miles wide, in others eight, in others six, and it is more than one hundred days' journey in length from one end to the other. This it is mat brings so much trade... | |
| George Kish - 1978 - 482 páginas
...city stands on the greatest river in the world, the name of which is Kiang. It is in some places ten miles wide, in others eight, in others six, and it...days' journey in length from one end to the other. This it is that brings so much trade to the city we are speaking of; for on the waters of that river... | |
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