Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . KUM. Pkrsian Gleaners A LEGEND OF THE THBEE WISE MEN 413 journ^es dont on puet clerement appercevoir que ly troy Eoy quide ceste cite de Cassan furent en xiii journees amene en Jherusalempar vertu divine et non humaine. En ceste cite a moult grand liabon-dance de tous biens, de pain, et de vin et de toutes autres choses. According to a legend given by Marco Polo, two of the kingscame from Saba ^ and Ava, both of which places are locatedabout fifty miles southwest of Teheran, and the thi
Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map . KUM. Pkrsian Gleaners A LEGEND OF THE THBEE WISE MEN 413 journ^es dont on puet clerement appercevoir que ly troy Eoy quide ceste cite de Cassan furent en xiii journees amene en Jherusalempar vertu divine et non humaine. En ceste cite a moult grand liabon-dance de tous biens, de pain, et de vin et de toutes autres choses. According to a legend given by Marco Polo, two of the kingscame from Saba ^ and Ava, both of which places are locatedabout fifty miles southwest of Teheran, and the third is said tohave come from a place three days journey from Avah, andMarco Polo states that he found a village there which goes bythe name of Gala Ataperistan ( KaVah-i Atashparastdn),which is as much as to say The Castle of the Fire-Worship-pers. And the name is rightly applied, for the people there doworship fire. In an article entitled The Magi in Marco Polo Ihave given various reasons for identifying the so-called Castleof the Fire-Worshippers with Kashan, which Odoric mentions,or a village in its vi
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