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" Besides these cars they have a superior kind of vehicle upon two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within it from wet, during a whole day of rain. "
Orr's Circle of the Sciences: Organic nature, v.1] The principles of physiology - Page 319
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The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian: The Translation of Marsden Revised ...

Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 548 pages
...Besides these cars they have a superior kind of vehicle upon two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within...their utensils, and such provisions as they require. s The ausai de la m&ne mum-re, errana <;& et 15 avec leurs troupeaux, et demeurans campez dans les...
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The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian: The Translation of Marsden Revised ...

Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 544 pages
...Besides these cars they have a superior kind of vehicle upon two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within...their utensils, and such provisions as they require. 3 The aussi de la meme maniere, erraus ci et IS avec leurs troupeaux, et demeurans campez dans lea...
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The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian: The Translation of Marsden Revised ...

Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 586 pages
...Besides these cars they have a superior kind of vehicle upon two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within...children, their utensils, and such provisions as they require.3 The nnssi do la memo maniere, errans (;ii et ls, avee lenra troupeaux, et demeurans campez...
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Visits to High Tartary, Yârkand, and Kâshghar (formerly Chinese Tartary ...

Robert Shaw - Asia, Central - 1871 - 546 pages
...says, "They (the Tartars) have a superior kind of vehicle on two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within it from wet, during a whole day of rain." OHAP. yill.; .; UNEXPECTED HONOURS. 159 and the small streams and watercourses Were 'all carefully...
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Visits to High Tartary, Yârkand, and Kâshgar (formerly Chinese Tartary): And ...

Robert Shaw - Asia, Central - 1871 - 618 pages
...Ed.) s&ys, "They (the rtars) have a superior kind of vehicle on two wheels, covered likewise :h black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within it from wet, ring a whole liny of rain." CHAP. VIII. .- UNEXPECTED HONOURS; 159 anil the small streams and watercourses...
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Central Asia: Travels in Cashmere, Little Thibet and Central Asia

Asia, Central - 1874 - 418 pages
...says, "They (the Tartars) have a superior kind of vehicle on two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within it from wet, during a whole day of rain." trious stranger came. He told them the usual preparations that were made, such as mending roads, etc.,...
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The Standard Library of Natural History: Living races of mankind: v. 4. Oceania

Ethnology - 1908 - 292 pages
...they have occasion to set up these again, they always make the entrance front to the south. Besules these cars they have a superior kind of vehicle upon...those within it from wet during a whole day of rain. They are drawn by oxen and camels, and serve to convey their wives and children, their utensils, and...
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Carriages & Coaches: Their History & Their Evolution

Ralph Straus - Carriages and carts - 1912 - 386 pages
...cars," he continues, " they have a superior kind of vehicle upon two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within...utensils, and such provisions as they require." The same traveller described the carriages of Southern China. Speaking of Kin-sai, then the capital, he...
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The Travels of Marco Polo

Marco Polo - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 324 pages
...Besides these cars they have a superior kind of vehicle upon two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within...utensils, and such provisions as they require. The women it is who attend to their trading concerns, who buy and sell, and provide everything necessary for...
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The Travels of Marco Polo

Marco Polo - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 484 pages
...Besides these cars they have a superior kind of vehicle upon two wheels, covered likewise with black felt, and so effectually as to protect those within...their utensils, and such provisions as they require. It is the women who attend to their trading concerns, who buy and sell, and provide everything necessary...
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