 The first traveller to reveal China in all its wealth and vastness, its mighty rivers, its huge cities, its rich manufactures, its swarming population, the inconceivably vast fleets that quickened its seas and its inland waters ; to tell...  The World's Exploration Story - Pagina 78door Albert Lee - 1906 - 338 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Marco Polo - 1871 - 624 pagina’s
...quickened its seas and its inland waters ; to tell us of the nations on its borders with all tlieir eccentricities of -manners and worship, of TIBET with...of BURMA with its golden pagodas and their tinkling croivns, of LAOS, of SIAM, of COCHIN CHINA, of JAPAN, the Eastern ThuU, with its rosy pearls and golden-roofed... | |
 | 1872 - 606 pagina’s
...population, the inconceivably vast fleets that quickened its seas and its inland waters ; to tell us of the nations on its borders, with all their eccentricities of manners and worship; of Thibet, with its sordid devotees ; of Burma, with its golden pagodas, and their tinkling crowns; of... | |
 | 1873 - 968 pagina’s
...population, the inconceivably vast fleets that quickened its seas and its inland waters ; to tell us of the nations on its borders, with all their eccentricities of manners and worship; of Thibet, with all its sordid devotees; of Burma, with its golden pagodas and their tinkling crowns;... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 862 pagina’s
...population, the inconceivably vast fleets that quickened its seas and its inland waters ; to tell us of the nations on its borders with all their eccentricities...JAPAN, the Eastern Thule, with its rosy pearls and golden-roof ed palaces ; t/te first to speak of that Museum of Beauty and Wonder, still so imperfectly... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 730 pagina’s
...quickened its seas and its inland v>aters ; to tell us of the nations on its borders with all t/ieir eccentricities of manners and worship ; of TIBET with...LAOS, of SIAM, of COCHIN CHINA, of JAPAN, the Eastern Thiile, with its rosy pearls and golden-roof ed palaces ; the first to speak of that Museum of Beauty... | |
 | Marco Polo - 1875 - 672 pagina’s
...population, the inconceivably vast fleets that quickened its seas and its inland waters ; to tell us of the nations on its borders with all their eccentricities of manners and worship ; of TlliET with its sordid devotees ; of BURMA with its golden pagodas and t/ieir tinkling crowns; of LAOS,... | |
 | Mary Elsie Thalheimer - 1883 - 492 pagina’s
...to tell us of the nations on its borders with all their eccentricities of manners and worship. ... of Japan, the eastern Thule, with its rosy pearls...golden-roofed palaces; the first to speak of that museum or beauty and wonder, still so imperfectly ransacked, the Indian Archipelago, source of those aromatics... | |
 | 1887 - 890 pagina’s
...population ; the inconceivably vast fleets that quickened its seas and its inland waters ; to tell us of the nations on its borders, with all their eccentricities of manners and worship; of Thibet with its sordid devotees ; of Ifurmah with its golden pagodas and their tinkling crowns; of... | |
 | 1887 - 942 pagina’s
...population ; the inconceivably vast fleets that quickened its seas and its inland waters ; to tell us of the nations on its borders, with all their eccentricities of manners and worship ; of Thibet with its sordid devotees ; of Burmall with its golden pagodas and their tinkling crowns ; of... | |
 | Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) - 1891 - 486 pagina’s
...pagodas and their tinkling crowns, of Caos, of Siam, of Cochin-China, of Japan, the Eastern Thulc, with its rosy pearls and golden-roofed palaces ; the...first to speak of that museum of beauty and wonder, the Indian Archipelago, source of the aromatics then so prized and whose origin was so dark: of Java,... | |
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