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