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And off we go.

Tonight we continue on an historic journey into the east, with the travels of Marco Polo, the complete Yule Cordier edition, including the unabridged

third edition of Henry Yule's annotated translation as revised by Henri Cordier in

1903 together with Cordier's later volume of Notes and Addenda, 1920.

Let's continue our journey where we left off.

Chapter 5 of the Kingdom of Mosul. On the frontier of Armenia

towards the southeast is the kingdom of Moses. It is a very great kingdom and

inhabited by several different kinds of people whom we shall now describe. First, there is a kind of people called

Arabi and these worship Muhammad.

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