Nomadic people originally from Mongolia and Manchuria.
1
My brother has been to Khitai and the islands of Cipangu.
2
Once ambassadors from places like Nova Roma and Baghdad and Memphis and Khitai came to us.
3
Then, finally, these strange island realms gave way to familiar territory: for now Asia was in sight, the shores of Khitai.
4
Were there other empires, perhaps, in the middle of that Western Sea-empiresmightier than Khitai and Cipangu and India put together?
5
On the eastern side of that vast ocean were Mexico and Peru; on its western side, Khitai and Cipangu, with India farther on.
6
He first sought assistance from the chief of Kara Khitai, and, when that failed him, turned to Temudjin, the son of his old friend.