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 | | Very striking is the description, like that given six centuries later by Marco Polo, of the quasi-supernatural horrors that beset the lonely traveller in the wildernessthe visions of armies and banners; and the manner in which they are dissipated singularly recalls passages in Bunyans Pilgrims Progress. |
 | | of the Turks on a hunting party,-a rencontre which it is interesting to compare with the visit of Zemarchus to the great khan Dizabul, sixty years before, in the same region. |
 | | His account of the many small states into which the Tukhara empire had broken up is of great interest, as many of them are identical in name and topography with the high valley states and districts on the Upper Oxus, which are at this day the object of so much geographical and political interest. |
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