Some Heroes of Travel, or, Chapters from the History of Geographical Discovery and Enterprise - Adams William Henry Davenport

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      The roc, a gigantic bird, which figures in the Eastern fable of Sinbad the Sailor.

      2

      A rich, quaint, walled-up doorway, in semi-Monastic, semi-Byzantine style, still extant in the Corte del Sabbrin, or Corta Sabbonicia, is nearly all that remains of the house of Messer Marco Palo.

      3

      A summary of the Russian explorations of the Pamir, by Sievertzof, has been published in Kettler’s “Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Geographie.”

      4

      Cuir-bouilli, leather softened by boiling, during which process it took any form or impression required, and afterwards hardened.

      5

      Probably malachite, or carbonate of copper.

      6

      The Hon. Robert Lindsay writes: – “At night each man lights a fire at his post, and furnishes himself with a dozen joints of the large bamboo, one of which he occasionally throws into the fire, and the air it contains being rarefied by the heat, it explodes with a report as loud as a musket.” – “Lives of the Lindsays,” iii. 191.

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      G. F. Ruxton, “Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains.” London, 1861.

1

The roc, a gigantic bird, which figures in the Eastern fable of Sinbad the Sailor.

2

A rich, quaint, walled-up doorway, in semi-Monastic, semi-Byzantine style, still extant in the Corte del Sabbrin, or Corta Sabbonicia, is nearly all that remains of the house of Messer Marco Palo.

3

A summary of the Russian explorations of the Pamir, by Sievertzof, has been published in Kettler’s “Zeitschrift für wissenschaftliche Geographie.”

4

Cuir-bouilli, leather softened by boiling, during which process it took any form or impression required, and afterwards hardened.

5

Probably malachite, or carbonate of copper.

6

The Hon. Robert Lindsay writes: – “At night each man lights a fire at his post, and furnishes himself with a dozen joints of the large bamboo, one of which he occasionally throws into the fire, and the air it contains being rarefied by the heat, it explodes with a report as loud as a musket.” – “Lives of the Lindsays,” iii. 191.

7

G. F. Ruxton, “Adventures in Mexico and the Rocky Mountains.” London, 1861.

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