 | Henry Hardy Cole, William Tayler, South Kensington Museum - 1874 - 412 pages
...sticking in the flesh of the shell fish. In this manner pearls are fished in great quantities, for thence, in fact, come the pearls, which are spread all over the world. And I can tell you that the King of that state hath a very great receipt and treasxire from his dues upon those pearls."... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 308 pages
...fished in great quantities, for thence in fact come the pearls which are spread all over the world. And the King of that State hath a very great receipt and treasure from his dues upon those pearls. Now we come to a marvellous tale of diamonds, and the way they are obtained, which sounds so much like... | |
 | Mary Mapes Dodge - 1897 - 580 pages
...sticking in the flesh of the shell-fish. In this manner pearls are fished in great quantities, for thence in fact come the pearls which are spread all over the world. And the King of that State hath a very great receipt and treasure from his dues upon those pearls. Now... | |
 | Noah Brooks, Marco Polo - 1897 - 318 pages
...sticking in the flesh of the shell-fish. In this manner pearls are fished in great quantities, for thence in fact come the pearls which are spread all over the world. And the King of that State hath a very great receipt and treasure from his dues upon those pearls. Now... | |
 | Hutton Webster - 1917 - 408 pages
...sticking in the flesh of the shell fish. In this manner pearls are secured in great quantities, for thence in fact come the pearls which are spread all...the world. And I can tell you the king of that state has a very great treasure from his dues upon those pearls. 99. Hindu Brahmans ' While visiting India,... | |
 | R. A. Donkin - 1998 - 490 pages
...surface with them, and then dive again. ... In this manner pearls are fished in great quantities, for thence in fact come the pearls which are spread all over the world. And . . . the King ot that state hath a very great receipt and treasure from his dues upon those pearls.66... | |
 | George Frederick Kunz, Charles Hugh Stevenson - 2001 - 678 pages
...sticking in the flesh of the shell-fish. In this manner pearls are fished in great quantities, for thence in fact come the pearls which are spread all...great receipt and treasure from his dues upon those pearls.1 That quaint old missionary bishop, Friar Jordanus, in his "Mirabilia Descripta, or the Wonders... | |
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And in these shells are found pearls, great and small, of every kind, sticking in the flesh of the shell-fish. In this manner pearls are fished in great quantities, for thence in fact come the pearls which are spread all over the world. And the King of... 