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The Travels of Marco Polo

…the following extract from Wassáf’s History, referring to this war, is a fine sample of that prince of rigmarole: “In the winter of 662 (A.D. 1262–1263) when the Almighty Artist had covered the River of Derbend with plates of silver…”