But It Relates His Capture As Having Taken Place At La Glaza, Which I Think There Can Be No Doubt Is Also Intended For Ayas (Sometimes Called Giazza), A Place Which In Fact Is Called Glaza In Three Of The MSS.

Of which various readings are given in the edition of the Societe de Geographie (p. 535).

[31] "E per meio esse aregordenti De si grande scacho mato Correa mille duxenti Zonto ge novanta e quatro."

The Armenian Prince Hayton or Hethum has put it under 1293. (See Langlois, Mem. sur les Relations de Genes avec la Petite-Armenie.)

VII. RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO'S FELLOW-PRISONER AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN THE TRAVELS.

38. We have now to say something of that Rusticiano to whom all who value Polo's book are so much indebted.

[Sidenote: Rusticiano, perhaps a prisoner from Meloria.]

The relations between Genoa and Pisa had long been so hostile that it was only too natural in 1298 to find a Pisan in the gaol of Genoa. An unhappy multitude of such prisoners had been carried thither fourteen years before, and the survivors still lingered there in vastly dwindled numbers. In the summer of 1284 was fought the battle from which Pisa had to date the commencement of her long decay. In July of that year the Pisans, at a time when the Genoese had no fleet in their own immediate waters, had advanced to the very port of Genoa and shot their defiance into the proud city in the form of silver-headed arrows, and stones belted with scarlet.[1] They had to pay dearly for this insult.

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