Revue Internationale de SinologieHenri Cordier, Gustaaf Schlegel, Édouard Chavannes, Paul Pelliot, Jan Julius Lodewijk Duyvendak, Paul Demiéville E. J. Brill, 1915 Covers all aspects of traditional China. |
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Page 320 - For the real truth is that the Salamander is no beast, as they allege in our part of the world, but is a substance found in the earth ; and I will tell you about it. Everybody must be aware that it can be no animal's nature to live in fire, seeing that every animal is composed of all the four elements.
Page 320 - He said that the way they got them was by digging in that mountain till they found a certain vein. The substance of this vein was then taken and crushed, and" when so treated it divides as it were into fibres of wool, which they set forth to dry. When dry, these fibres were pounded in a great copper mortar, and then washed, so as to remove all the earth and to leave only the fibres like fibres of wool. These were then spun, and made into napkins. When first made these napkins are not very white,...
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Page 202 - In a northwesterly direction from the island is a ravine hollowed out like a bowl, more than a thousand feet deep. They throw flesh into this valley. Birds take it up in their beaks, whereupon they drop the precious stones. The biggest of these have a weight of five catties.
Page 100 - Chin. typen] and attacked the city moat. (The town) resisted for a month, the place having closed its gates and defending itself, and they not daring to assault it.
Page 135 - Javas also, from whence come diamants. And the king hath a masse of earth which is golde ; it groweth in the middle of a river : and when the king doth lacke gold, they cut part of the earth and melt it, whereof commeth golde. This masse of earth doth appeare but once in a yere ; which is when the water is low : and this is in the moneth of April.
Page 320 - Now this, and nought else, is the truth about the Salamander, and the people of the country all say the same. Any other account of the matter is fabulous nonsense. And I may add that they have, at Rome, a napkin out of this stuff, which the Grand Kaan sent to the Pope, to make a wrapper, for the Holy Sudarium of Jesus Christ.
Page 419 - Sc.B., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. With Notes and an Appendix containing a Metrical Version of the Ballad of Takasako, and a specimen of the Original Text in Japanese character. Illustrated by numerous Engravings on Wood, drawn and executed by Japanese artists and printed on Japanese paper.
Page 160 - UDANAVARGA. A Collection of Verses from the Buddhist Canon. Compiled by Dharmatrata. Being the Northern Buddhist Version of Dhammapada. Translated from the Tibetan of Bkah-hgyur, with Notes, and Extracts from the Commentary of Pradjnavarman, by W. Woodville Rockhill.
Page 319 - And you must know that in the same mountain there is a vein of the substance from which Salamander is made. For the real truth is that the Salamander is no beast, as they allege in our part of the world, but is a substance found in the earth ; and I will tell you about it.