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" ... and the windows also have golden ornaments. So vast, indeed, are the riches of the palace, that it is impossible to convey an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also, in large quantities, of a red (pink) colour, round in shape, and of great... "
Japan in Our Day - Page 3
1892 - 293 pages
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Japan: An Account, Geographical and Historical, from the Earliest Period at ...

Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1852 - 418 pages
...to convey an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also in large quantities, of a red (pink) color, round in shape, and of great size ; equal in...a practice of putting one of these pearls into the mouth of the corpse. There are also found there a number of precious stones. " Of so great celebrity...
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Japan: An Account, Geographical and Historical, from the Earliest Period at ...

Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1852 - 474 pages
...an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also in large quantities, of a red (pink) colour, round in shape, and of great size ; equal in value...a practice of putting one of these pearls into the mouth of the corpse. There are also found there a number of precious stones. "Of so great celebrity...
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Japan and the Japanese: from the Most Authentic and Reliable Sources

Talbot Watts - Japan - 1852 - 406 pages
...to convey an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also in large quantities, of a red (pink) color, round in shape, and of great size; equal in...It is customary with one part of the inhabitants*^ bury their dead, and with another part to burn them. The former have a practice of putting one of these...
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The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian: The Translation of Marsden Revised ...

Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 548 pages
...an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also, in large quantities, of a red (pink) colour, round in shape, and of great size, equal in value to, or even exceeding that of the white pearls. 2 It is customary with one part of the inhabitants to bury their dead, and with another part to burn...
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The Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian: The Translation of Marsden Revised ...

Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 544 pages
...an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also, in large quantities, of a red (pink) colour, round in shape, and of great size, equal in value to, or even exceeding that of the •white pearls. 2 It is customary with one part of the inhabit^ ants to bury their dead, and with another part to bura...
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The Travels of Marco Polo, the Venetian: The Translation of Marsden Revised ...

Marco Polo - Asia - 1854 - 586 pages
...an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also, in large quantities, of a red (pink) colour, round in shape, and of great size, equal in value to, or even exceeding that of the white pearls.2 It is customary with one part of the inhabitants to bury their dead, and with another part...
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Japan as it was and is

Richard Hildreth - Literary Criticism - 1855 - 624 pages
...impossible to convey an idea of them. In this Island there arc pearls, also, in large quantities, of a pink color, round in shape, and of great size, equal in value to white pearls, or even exceeding them. It is customary with one part of the inhabitants to bury their...
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Japan: An Account, Geographical and Historical

Charles MacFarlane - Japan - 1856 - 396 pages
...to convey an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also in large quantities, of a red (pink) color, round in shape, and of great size ; equal in...a practice of putting one of these pearls into the mouth of the corpse. There are also found there a number of precious stones. Kublai, now reigning,...
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Japan and Her People, Volume 1

Andrew Steinmetz - Japan - 1859 - 546 pages
...an idea of them. In this island there are pearls also in large quantities, of a, red (pink) colour, round in shape, and of great size ; equal in value...a practice of putting one of these pearls into the mouth of the corpse. There are also found there a number of precious stones. " Of so great celebrity...
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Japan In Our Day

Bayard Taylor - 1893 - 356 pages
...travels of Marco Polo, who heard of the country, under the name of Zipangn, at the court of Kubla'i Khan (in Peking), at the close of the thirteenth*...a practice of putting one of these pearls into the mouth of the corpse. There are also found there a number of precious stones. " Of so great celebrity...
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