Leaving that city behind, after three days of travel, one reaches Xanadu, a city built by the decree of the great Kublai Khan. Here, the Khan ordered the construction of a palace made of marble and precious stones, with golden halls and rooms of extraordinary beauty. The palace stands on a vast estate, complete with rivers, fountains, and meadows. Within this enclosure, the Great Khan keeps a multitude of animals, including deer, fallow deer, and roe deer, to feed his gyrfalcons and falcons. The Great Khan tours his domain once a week. Sometimes, he carries a leopard on the back of his horse, and when he wishes to hunt, he releases it to catch prey, which he then presents to the gyrfalcons-all for his own enjoyment.
Leaving that city behind, after three days of travel, one reaches Xanadu, a city built by the decree of the great Kublai Khan. Here, the Khan ordered the construction of a palace made of marble and precious stones, with golden halls and rooms of extraordinary beauty. The palace stands on a vast estate, complete with rivers, fountains, and meadows. Within this enclosure, the Great Khan keeps a multitude of animals, including deer, fallow deer, and roe deer, to feed his gyrfalcons and falcons. The Great Khan tours his domain once a week. Sometimes, he carries a leopard on the back of his horse, and when he wishes to hunt, he releases it to catch prey, which he then presents to the gyrfalcons-all for his own enjoyment.
