NOTES. - 1. Verbal. 2. "Vostre Homme."
XV. - HOW THE LORD SENT MARK ON AN EMBASSY OF HIS
NOTES. - 1. The four Characters learned by Marco, what? 2. Ramusio's
addition. 3. Nature of Marco's employment.
XVI. - HOW MARK RETURNED FROM THE MISSION WHEREON HE HAD BEEN SENT
XVII. - HOW MESSER NICOLO, MESSER MAFFEO, AND MESSER MARCO, ASKED LEAVE OF
THE GREAT KAAN TO GO THEIR WAY
NOTES. - 1. Risks to Foreigners on a change of Sovereign. 2. The Lady
Bolgana. 3. Passage from Ramusio.
XVIII. - HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AND MESSER MARCO TOOK LEAVE OF THE GREAT
KAAN, AND RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY
NOTES. - 1. Mongol Royal Messengers. 2. Mongol communication with the
King of England. 3. Mediaeval Ships of China. 4. Passage from China
to Sumatra. 5. Mortality among the party. 6. The Lady Cocachin in
Persian History. 7. Death of the Kaan. 8. The Princess of Manzi.
BOOK FIRST.
Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser
Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu.
I. - HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA
NOTES. - 1. Little Armenia. 2. Meaning of Chasteaux. 3. Sickliness of
Cilician Coast. 4. The phrase "fra terre."
II. - CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TURCOMANIA
NOTES. - 1. Brutality of the people. 2. Application of name Turcomania.
Turcoman Hordes.
III. - DESCRIPTION OF THE GREATER HERMENIA
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