Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian
Travels of Marco Polo the Venetian
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But their rulers, who are aware of this practice, are always provided with the dung of dogs, which they oblige the accused to swallow immediately after, as it occasions their vomiting up the poison, 3 and thus an antidote 1 The flesh of the guana or inguana, an animal intermediate in size between the lizard and the alligator, I have known to be eaten both by Chinese and Europeans, and by the former at least to be considered as a delicacy. I cannot assert the same of the alligator, but in a book... of Natural History I read that " the Africans and Indians eat its flesh, which is white, and of a kind of perfumed (musky) flavour. " 2 It appears from hence* that the practice of docking the tails of horses, by separating one or more of the vertebrae, which has become so common in England, existed many hundred years ago amongst the people of Yun-nan, in the remotest part of China.
3 Such might have been the vulgar belief respecting the substance employed as an emetic on these occasions, although perhaps with as little foundation as the idea entertained by the common people in England that ipecacuanha is the powder of human bones.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
But their rulers, who are aware of this practice, are always provided with the dung of dogs, which they oblige the accused to swallow immediately after, as it occasions their vomiting up the poison, 3 and thus an antidote 1 The flesh of the guana or inguana, an animal intermediate in size between the lizard and the alligator, I have known to be eaten both by Chinese and Europeans, and by the former at least to be considered as a delicacy. I cannot assert the same of the alligator, but in a book... of Natural History I read that " the Africans and Indians eat its flesh, which is white, and of a kind of perfumed (musky) flavour. " 2 It appears from hence* that the practice of docking the tails of horses, by separating one or more of the vertebrae, which has become so common in England, existed many hundred years ago amongst the people of Yun-nan, in the remotest part of China.
3 Such might have been the vulgar belief respecting the substance employed as an emetic on these occasions, although perhaps with as little foundation as the idea entertained by the common people in England that ipecacuanha is the powder of human bones.
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