Truth Triumphant - Benjamin G. Wilkinson

situations he encountered is seen in the following
description:
Mosul is a large province inhabited by various
descriptions of people, one class of whom pay
reverence to Mahomet, and are called Arabians.
The others profess the Christian faith, but not
according to the canons of the church, which they
depart from in many instances, and are
denominated Nestorians, Jacobites, and Armenians.
They have a patriarch whom they call Jacolit, and
by him archbishops, bishops, and abbots are
consecrated and sent to all parts of India, to Baudas
(Bagdad), or to Cathay (China), just as the pope of
Rome does in the Latin countries.[15]
When John of Plano Carpini and William of
Rubruck set out to interview the Tartar emperors,
the capital was still at Karakorum in Siberia amid
the nomadic tribes of the Asiatic plains. The
journey made by Marco Polo, however, brought
him to Peking, the new capital of the Mongolians
under Emperor Kublai. The following description
of Peking at the time of Marco Polo’s arrival is
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