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 -  Prince Sempad, High Constable of
Armenia, in a letter written from Samarkand in 1246 or 1247, mentions
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Prince Sempad, High Constable Of Armenia, In A Letter Written From Samarkand In 1246 Or 1247, Mentions Several Circumstances Illustrative Of The State Of Things Indicated In This Story:

"I tell you that we have found many Christians scattered all over the East, and many fine churches, lofty, ancient, and of good architecture, which have been spoiled by the Turks.

Hence, the Christians of this country came to the presence of the reigning Kaan's grandfather (i.e. Chinghiz); he received them most honourably, and granted them liberty of worship, and issued orders to prevent their having any just cause of complaint by word or deed. And so the Saracens, who used to treat them with contempt, have now the like treatment in double measure."

Shortly after Marco's time, viz. in 1328, Thomas of Mancasola, a Dominican, who had come from Samarkand with a Mission to the Pope (John XXII.) from Ilchigadai, Khan of Chagatai, was appointed Latin Bishop of that city. (Mosheim, p. 110, etc.; Cathay, p. 192.)

NOTE 2. - CHAGATAI, here called Sigatay, was Uncle, not Brother, to the Great Kaan (Kublai). Nor was Kaidu either Chagatai's son or Kublai's nephew, as Marco here and elsewhere represents him to be. (See Bk. IV. ch. i.) The term used to describe Chagatai's relationship is frere charnel, which excludes ambiguity, cousinship, or the like (such as is expressed by the Italian fratello cugino), and corresponds, I believe, to the brother german of Scotch law documents.

NOTE 3. - One might say, These things be an allegory!

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