Who wrote this - " Beautiful mats in red and blue leather and inlayed with figures of birds and beasts, and skillfully embroidered with gold and silver wires were quite exquisite".Immersive Reader
(1 Point)
a. Wassaf
b. Yalrut
c. Marcopolo
d. Idrisi
Answers
Answer:
i think wassaf or idrisi
Answer:
The Travels of Marco Polo
Explanation:
Gozurat is a great kingdom. The people are Idolaters and have a peculiar language, and a king of their own, and are tributary to no one. It lies towards the west, and the North Star is here still more conspicuous, showing itself at an altitude of about 6 cubits.[1]
The people are the most desperate pirates in existence, and one of their atrocious practices is this. When they have taken a merchant-vessel they force the merchants to swallow a stuff called Tamarindi mixed in sea-water, which produces a violent purging.[2] This is done in case the merchants, on seeing their danger, should have swallowed their most valuable stones and pearls. And in this way the pirates secure the whole.
In this province of Gozurat there grows much pepper, and ginger, and indigo. They have also a great deal of cotton. Their cotton trees are of very great size, growing full six paces high, and attaining to an age of 20 years. It is to be observed however that, when the trees are so old as that, the cotton is not good to spin, but only to quilt or stuff beds withal. Up to the age of 12 years indeed the trees give good spinning cotton, but from that age to 20 years the produce is inferior.[3] [Illustration: Mediaeval Architecture in Guzerat. (From Fergusson.)]