Cipango
Americannoun
noun
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Would Samarkand or Cathay or Cipango have suffered the same fate if visited?
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
On the coasts of Cathay and Cipango forty years ago.
From Select List of Books ... Relating to the Far East by Griffin, Appleton Prentiss Clark
He began to hear of an island in that direction named Cuba, which, from the mistaken ideas of geography current at the time, he took for Marco Polo’s famed gold island of Cipango.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick
Hearing of Cuba and believing that it was Cipango, he planned to visit the mainland and go to the city of Guisay, the Quinsai of Marco Polo.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
"To Cipango, and the territories of the Great Khan; forty days' sail from Gomera, and a country of marvellous beauty and excellence!"
From Mercedes of Castile The Voyage to Cathay by Cooper, J. Fenimore
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