Polo's
Account; yet it seems plain, from the Names of Places and other
Circumstances, that he never was in those Countries, but imposed on
the Public the few Informations he had from others, mixed with the
many Fictions of his own. He set out again for the East in 1331; but
warned, it seems, by an Apparition a few Miles from Padua, he
returned thither, and died." And a final blow in the index: "Oderic,
Friar, Travels of, iv. 620 a. A great liar!!"
[34] E.B. Nicholson. - Letters to the Academy, 11th November, 1876;
12th February, 1881. E.B.N. and Henry Yule, MANDEVILLE, in
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 9th ed., 1883, pp. 472-475.
[35] Die ungedruckten Lateinischen Versionen Mandeville's. (Beilage zum
Programm des Gymnasiums zu Crefeld.) 1886.
[36] Untersuchungen ueber Johan von Mandeville und die Quellen seiner
Reisebeschreibung. Von Albert Bovenschen. (Zeitschrift d. Ges. fuer
Erdkunde zu Berlin, XXIII. Bd., 3 u. 4 Hft. No. 135, 136, pp.
177-306.)
[37] (1) Itinerarivm // per nonnv. las // Galliae Belgicae partes,
// Abrahami Ortelii et // Ioannis Viviani. // Ad Gerardvm Mercatorem,
// Cosmographvm. // Antverpiae, // Ex officina Christophori Plantini.
// clo. lo. lxxxiv. // small 8vo, pp. 15-16.
(2) Read 1372.
(3) Purchas, His Pilgrimes, 3rd Pt., Lond., 1625, reproduces it
on p. 128:
