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| The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 |
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Citation Information
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Boote III.
MARCO POLO
would scarcely be possible to estimate its value. More-
over, all the pavement of the Palace, and the floors of its
chambers, are entirely of gold, in plates like slabs of stone,
a good two angers thick ; and the windows also are of
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6e (o
gold, so that altogether the richness of this Palace is past
all bounds and all belief.'
They have also pearls in abundance, which are of a
rose colour, but fine, big, and round, and quite as
valuable as the white ones. [In this Island some of the
dead are buried, and others are burnt. When a body is
Ancient Japanese Emperor. (After a Native Drawing ; from Humbert.)
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