Identifier: storyofmarcopolo00polo (find matches)
Title: The story of Marco Polo
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Brooks, Noah, 1830-1903, (from old catalog) ed
Subjects: Voyages and travels
Publisher: New York, The Century co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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rned with representations of dragons, sculptured andgilt, beasts and birds, knights and idols, and sundry othersubjects. And on the ceiling, too, you see nothing butgold and silver and painting. On each of the four sidesthere is a great marble staircase leading to the top of themarble wall, and forming the approach to the Palace. The Hall of the Palace is so large that it could easily dinesix thousand people; and it is quite a marvel to see howmany rooms there are besides. The building is altogether sovast, so rich, and so beautiful, that no man on earth coulddesign anything superior to it. The outside of the roofalso is all coloured with vermilion and yellow and greenand blue and other hues, which are fixed with a varnish sofine and exquisite that they shine like crystal, and lenda resplendent lustre to the Palace as seen for a great wayround. This roof is made, too, with such strength andsolidity that it is fit to last for ever. On the interior side of the Palace are large buildings
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XIV.) AN EVERGREEN HOBBY. 127 with halls and chambers, where the Emperors privateproperty is placed, such as his treasures of gold, silver,gems, pearls, and gold plate, and in which reside the ladiesof the Court. Between the two walls of the enclosure which I havedescribed there are fine parks and beautiful trees bearinga variety of fruits. There are beasts also of sundry kinds,such as white stags and fallow deer, gazelles and roebucks,and fine squirrels of various sorts, with numbers also of theanimal that gives the musk, and all manner of other beauti-ful creatures, insomuch that the whole place is full of them,and no spot remains void except where there is traffic ofpeople going and coming. The parks are covered withabundant grass; and the roads through them being allpaved and raised two cubits above the surface, they neverbecome muddy, nor does the rain lodge on them, but flowsoff into the meadows, quickening the soil and producingthat abundance of herbage. From that corner of the

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