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Xuanzang’s visit to India presented him with a firsthand feel of a whole new culture and religious practices. Xuanzang was very overwhelmed with the upright and honorable traits of the ordinary people. However, the caste system might very well have seemed to be the most surprising to him as a visitor from China. Moreover, he accurately described how the legal processes and the modes of punishment deployed in India were strange and surprising. The city covered a huge area, and it possessed several impressive features. It is clear from the text that the features included 12,000 bridges of stone; twelve guilds, each with enormous numbers of employees and wealthy masters. Moreover, the majority of the merchants were wealthy, and the number of beautiful palaces and impressive mansions warranted Marco Polo's christening of the city as "the finest and the noblest in the world." The city had everything considered great and noble with it from the large amounts of silk to traders and the ten principal markets. Indeed, the city lived up to the description Marco Polo awarded it. Batuta’s encounter in Mali strikes both impression and shock to him. Clearly, the women’s interaction with men in both public and private, as well as their extreme lack of clothing were amongst the shocking experiences in his account. Moreover, Batuta was shocked by the people’s practices during the ceremony and their favorite meals at these ceremonies. The local people found delicacy in dogs, asses, and carrion which were all a shock to him. However, he was impressed by the good Islamic practices by the local Muslims together with the people’s integrity and the transparency of the kingdom’s
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