item: #1 of 12 id: 10636 author: Polo, Marco title: The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 date: None words: 341309 flesch: 76 summary: When the Mongol army was investing Miafarakain, the chief, Malik Kamál, told his people that everything he had should be at the service of those in need: Thank God, I am not like Mosta'sim, a worshipper of silver and gold! (_Hayton_ in _Ram. and _Borgal_ appear both to be used here for what we call _Russia-Leather_. keywords: 13th; 14th; a.d; account; ages; alexander; animals; april; arabic; armenia; army; asia; authority; badakhshan; barons; battle; batuta; beasts; beautiful; beginning; black; blood; body; book; bretschneider; brother; buddhist; calls; cambaluc; capital; captain; case; cathay; central; century; chapter; character; chau; che; chief; children; china; chinese; chinghiz; christians; church; circumstances; cities; city; close; colonel; come; common; copy; council; countries; country; course; court; cross; custom; cut; date; daughter; days; de la; dead; death; del; description; desert; direction; distance; doubt; drink; dynasty; earth; east; eastern; edition; emperor; empire; end; english; et de; etc; fact; family; father; feet; fine; fire; following; food; foot; form; french; friar; friend; frontier; galleys; gate; gaubil; general; genoa; genoese; geography; george; gives; god; gold; golden; good; government; grant; great; greek; half; hand; hath; having; head; henry; high; hills; history; holy; home; honour; hormuz; horses; house; i. p.; ibn; iii; illustration; india; information; instruments; iron; island; italian; john; journey; kaan; kermán; khan; khotan; kind; king; kingdom; knowledge; kúblái; l.c; lady; lake; lamas; land; language; late; latin; lay; leave; left; length; letter; library; life; line; lire; little; lob; london; long; lord; m. polo; maffeo; major; making; man; manner; map; maps; march; marco polo; mark; marsden; matter; meaning; means; mediaeval; men; mention; merchants; messer; middle; miles; milk; ming; mission; modern; money; mongol; months; mountains; mss; names; narrative; nayan; near; new; nicolo; noble; north; northern; note; notes.--1; notice; number; occasion; odoric; old; order; oriental; original; palladius; pamir; paper; paris; passage; pauthier; peking; people; period; persia; persons; place; plain; point; polo; pope; position; post; power; present; prester; prince; professor; proper; province; public; que; question; qui; ramusio; rashiduddin; reading; reason; red; reference; regard; region; remains; report; residence; return; right; river; road; rockhill; round; route; royal; ruins; russian; saracens; says; sea; second; sense; seqq; service; set; sheep; shi; sidenote; silk; silver; sir; site; society; son; sons; south; southern; sovereign; speaking; state; statement; steel; stone; subject; summer; sun; system; tangut; tartars; tell; temple; term; text; things; tibet; tibetan; time; title; town; trade; tradition; translation; traveller; travels; tree; tribes; truth; use; valley; value; variety; venetian; venice; version; view; vii; village; visit; viz; vol; wall; war; water; way; west; western; white; wife; wild; wine; winter; wood; word; work; worship; writer; years; yuen; yule cache: 10636.txt plain text: 10636.txt item: #2 of 12 id: 10956 author: Morley, John title: Indian speeches (1907-1909) date: None words: 42561 flesch: 65 summary: Extract from the dispatch of the Board of Directors of the East India Company to the Government of India, December 10, 1834, accompanying the Government of India Act_, 1833.[1] They mark the spirit of British rule in India, at three successive stages, for three generations past; and bear directly upon what is now being done. keywords: act; council; day; friend; general; gentlemen; good; government; governor; hon; house; india; lord; man; members; moment; parliament; people; point; policy; present; question; secretary; service; state; think; time; viceroy; view; way cache: 10956.txt plain text: 10956.txt item: #3 of 12 id: 13806 author: Knox, Thomas Wallace title: Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life date: None words: 191002 flesch: 74 summary: There are many good men among the priests of the Eastern church in Siberia, but it must also be admitted there are many bad ones. In the government of Yakutsk there are many horses that find their own living in winter as in summer. keywords: air; american; amoor; baggage; bank; boat; captain; chapter; character; chief; china; chinese; church; city; cold; company; country; course; custom; day; days; dinner; distance; dogs; dozen; emperor; end; english; exiles; feet; find; fire; fish; french; general; gentleman; gold; good; government; governor; ground; half; hand; head; hills; horses; hour; house; ice; illustration; irkutsk; journey; kiachta; kind; lake; land; left; life; line; making; man; men; merchants; miles; money; morning; mountains; natives; near; new; nicolayevsk; night; north; number; officers; party; people; petersburg; piece; place; point; population; post; present; ready; region; river; road; room; russian; saw; sea; second; service; ship; shore; siberia; sleigh; snow; station; steamer; summer; table; tea; telegraph; thought; time; town; trade; travel; traveler; trees; valley; versts; village; visit; water; way; winter; women; wood; work; years cache: 13806.txt plain text: 13806.txt item: #4 of 12 id: 2124 author: Faxian title: A Record of Buddhistic Kingdoms Being an account by the Chinese monk Fa-hsien of travels in India and Ceylon (A.D. 399-414) in search of the Buddhist books of discipline date: None words: 50682 flesch: 75 summary: At the places where Buddha, when he was in the world, cut his hair and nails, topes are erected; and where the three Buddhas(16) that preceded Sakyamuni Buddha and he himself sat; where they walked,(17) and where images of their persons were made. On leaving India, she took with her a branch of the sacred Bo tree at Buddha Gaya, under which Sakyamuni had become Buddha. keywords: account; body; books; buddha; buddhist; chapter; china; chinese; city; country; davids; days; east; eitel; hardy; having; hsien; india; king; kingdom; law; life; man; meaning; men; monastery; monks; narrative; nirvana; north; note; offerings; people; place; present; river; sakyamuni; south; text; time; tope; tree; vihara; way; west; world; years cache: 2124.txt plain text: 2124.txt item: #5 of 12 id: 26358 author: None title: Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers date: None words: 199285 flesch: 73 summary: If this is all the friendship great men can show us, we poor people should be best pleased to live as far from them as we can. I have known men, continued Saad, who, although among the best and noblest whom I have ever known in the course of my life, were led unawares, by too great self-confidence, to an action which they might easily have avoided by a little caution, but which has been the beginning of a long chain of transgressions and vices, ending in their complete ruin. keywords: ahubal; allah; army; bennaskar; city; continued; court; dakianos; day; days; death; door; earth; eyes; faithful; father; fear; friend; god; gold; good; ground; hand; head; heart; heaven; horam; house; jalaladdeen; journey; jussuf; king; left; length; life; lord; love; man; manner; master; mind; misnar; moment; morning; mother; night; order; palace; people; power; prince; princess; rest; return; set; slave; son; sultan; thee; thou; thought; throne; thy; time; troops; urad; vizier; way; woman; words cache: 26358.txt plain text: 26358.txt item: #6 of 12 id: 27547 author: Treacher, W. H. (William Hood), Sir title: British Borneo Sketches of Brunai, Sarawak, Labuan, and North Borneo date: None words: 66354 flesch: 60 summary: The latter are known as _anak mas_, and are the children of a slave mother by a free man other than her master. A lady friend of mine, who found a difficulty in acquiring Malay, pronounced _nanti dahulu_, or _nanti dulu_ as generally spoken, nanty doodle, and suggested that the nanty doodles could be a good name for the Brunai Malays. keywords: borneo; borneo company; british; british north; brooke; brunai; brunai river; capital; case; chief; chinese; coast; colony; company; country; day; dutch; east; english; european; feet; following; general; good; government; governor; head; house; island; jungle; labuan; land; little; malay; man; miles; natives; new; north borneo; officers; people; population; position; present; principal; raja; river; royal; sandakan; sarawak; singapore; sir; slave; spanish; state; sultan; sulu; territory; time; tobacco; trade; water; way; west; work; years cache: 27547.txt plain text: 27547.txt item: #7 of 12 id: 32418 author: Pollard, Edward B. title: Oriental Women date: None words: 108712 flesch: 68 summary: But great women, like great men, sometimes make mistakes, and their blunders are often just at the point where they have achieved greatness. And while one woman of the period became a deliverer for four decades, for more than a century many women suffered untold misery for lack of unity among the tribes and leaders capable of bringing the life of the reign to rights. keywords: ancient; beauty; birth; bride; brother; character; children; chinese; christian; city; country; course; custom; daughter; day; days; death; egypt; egyptian; eyes; fact; family; father; feet; female; form; girl; god; good; hair; hand; harem; head; heart; hebrew; history; home; honor; house; husband; influence; israel; japanese; jewish; king; lady; land; law; length; life; literature; little; love; man; marriage; mohammed; moorish; mother; new; old; order; parents; people; period; persian; place; power; present; prophet; public; queen; religion; right; royal; rule; set; son; sons; sultan; thou; thy; time; way; wife; wives; women; work; world; years cache: 32418.txt plain text: 32418.txt item: #8 of 12 id: 32977 author: Kipling, Rudyard title: From Sea to Sea; Letters of Travel date: None words: 216879 flesch: 80 summary: The _'rickshaw_ men are patient and long-suffering. Thakoors and great men also gave gifts out of their benevolence; and there was nothing in the wide world to prevent an Englishman from following their example. keywords: air; american; army; away; black; blood; blue; book; boondi; brown; building; business; calcutta; california; chicago; children; chitor; city; coal; company; country; course; dark; day; days; dead; deal; death; deep; door; earth; east; end; england; englishman; eyes; face; far; feet; fire; fish; folk; foot; friends; garden; gate; god; goes; going; gold; good; government; great; green; grey; guide; half; hand; hat; head; heart; high; hills; hold; home; hong; horses; hotel; hours; house; india; iron; japanese; jodhpur; know; kong; lady; lake; land; lay; left; lies; life; line; little; look; looking; man; matter; men; miles; mind; minutes; money; morning; mouth; native; new; night; open; pay; people; place; play; police; pretty; professor; railway; real; red; rest; river; road; rock; room; round; run; running; sahib; saw; sea; second; service; set; singh; sort; soul; stands; state; station; stone; story; stream; streets; sun; talk; tea; temple; things; thought; time; tonga; town; train; trees; turn; udaipur; voice; wall; want; water; way; white; women; wood; work; world; worth; years; young cache: 32977.txt plain text: 32977.txt item: #9 of 12 id: 35334 author: Tibbitts, Charles John title: Folk-Lore and Legends: Oriental date: None words: 45774 flesch: 77 summary: There is gold for thee, she said, thou wonderful man, to whom all the secrets of Nature are revealed! And as soon as the day shone, and the alarm of the young man subsided, he descended from the roof of the palace; and when his father-in-law beheld him, he rose to him and met him, wondering at seeing him descend from the top of the palace, and he said to him, We see other men come through the doors, but thou comest down from the sky. keywords: ahmed; art; bird; chan; day; father; fox; god; gold; good; head; king; life; magician; maiden; man; night; place; saw; son; spake; ssidi; thee; thou; thy; time; wife; wolf; woman; words; youth cache: 35334.txt plain text: 35334.txt item: #10 of 12 id: 38508 author: Vay, Péter title: Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod date: None words: 97055 flesch: 66 summary: I have been at many great receptions, but I can remember none more impressive than the reception at the Summer Palace. I hope, therefore, that these first impressions of countries which, in name at any rate, are far more familiar to the British public than they were four or five years ago, may prove of great interest to many readers in England and America. keywords: art; capital; children; china; chinese; city; country; court; day; east; eastern; emperor; empress; english; european; face; fact; family; fine; foreign; form; future; general; good; government; great; history; home; houses; idea; illustration; interest; japan; japanese; journey; kind; korea; land; life; light; line; manchuria; men; military; modern; national; new; number; open; page; palace; past; pekin; people; point; port; power; present; public; race; railway; red; russian; seoul; short; soldiers; state; station; system; time; town; trade; view; wall; war; western; white; work; world; years; yellow cache: 38508.txt plain text: 38508.txt item: #11 of 12 id: 40900 author: Bartholomew, J. G. (John George) title: A Literary and Historical Atlas of Asia date: None words: 65554 flesch: 92 summary: =Adas=, Bombay. =Aden=, Arabia. keywords: 17n; 18n; 19n; 20n; 21n; 23n; 24n; 26n; 27n; 28n; 29n; 31n; 32n; 33n; 34n; 35n; 36n; 37n; 39n; 40n; 73e; 74e; 75e; 77e; = bang; = beth; = chang; = chao; = chen; = chi; = chu; = dera; = el; = feng; = fu; = hai; = han; = heng; = ho; = hsin; = hu; = hun; = hwai; = hwei; = java; = kai; = kan; = kao; = khara; = ki=; = kia; = kien; = king; = kiu; = koh; = kota; = ku; = kuala; = kwang; = kwei; = kyeng; = lai; = lan; = lang; = lao; = lien; = liu; = lo; = lung; = nan; = ngan; = ning; = pao; = pei; = ping; = po; = port; = pulau; = san; = shan; = shi; = shu; = song; = south; = st; = sulu; = sze; = tai; = tao; = te; = tien; = tsing; = tung; = wei; = wen; = wu; = yang; = yen; = ying; = yuen; = yung; arabia; asia; b.c; bengal; bombay; british; burma; china; coins; east; indies; indo; island=; japan; madras; malay; minor; palestine; persia; philippine; plate; provs; punjab; rajputana; river=; siam; siberia; turkey cache: 40900.txt plain text: 40900.txt item: #12 of 12 id: 43495 author: Gillis, Charles J. title: Around the World in Seven Months date: None words: 28260 flesch: 74 summary: There we took a circuit around the hills, and saw many great buildings, barracks, schools, etc. The harbor appears to be about a mile wide and two miles long, surrounded by steep hills, on which the city is built, largely in terraces, with many great palaces, mosques, and public buildings, the Mosque of St. Sophia being very prominent. keywords: boat; chapter; city; country; day; days; english; feet; good; hotel; hours; left; looking; men; miles; morning; mountains; native; new; p.m.; people; place; road; saw; sea; ship; steamer; streets; time; trees; water; world; years cache: 43495.txt plain text: 43495.txt