Makrizi (Google Books ⧉, Amazon ⧉, Bookshop ⧉)
by Quatremère
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The Travels of Marco Polo
At the siege of Acre in 1291, just referred to, the Saracens, according to Makrizi, set 92 engines in battery against the city, whilst Abulfaraj says 300, and a Frank account, of great and small, 666.
The Travels of Marco Polo
the larger ones are said to have shot stones of “a kantar and even more.” (Makrizi, III. 125; Reinaud, Chroniques Arabes, etc., p. 570; De Excidio Urbis Acconis, in Martène and Durand, V. 769.)
The Travels of Marco Polo
Note 2.—Ram. says he was sent to a certain island called Zorza (Chorcha?), where men who have failed in duty are put to death in this manner: They wrap the arms of the victim in the hide of a newly flayed buffalo, and sew it tight. As this dries it compresses him so terribly that he cannot move, and so, finding no help, his life ends in misery. (See Makrizi, Pt. III. p. 108, and Pottinger, as quoted by Marsden in loco.)
The Travels of Marco Polo
Batu bore the surname of Sain Khan, or “the Good Prince,” by which name he is mentioned, e.g., in Makrizi (Quatremère’s Trans. II. 45), also in Wassáf…
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