Nevertheless Occasional Remarks Having Been Made By Some Of The Reviewers,
Proper Notice Was Taken Of Them; Moreover, It Was Impossible To Avoid Some
Mistakes And Omissions In A Work Including Several Hundreds Of Pages.
As
years went on, extensive voyages were undertaken by travellers like Sir
Aurel STEIN, Sven HEDIN, PELLIOT, KOZLOV, and others, who brought fresh
and important information.
I had myself collected material from new works
as they were issued and from old works which had been neglected. In the
mean time I had given a second edition of Cathay and the Way
Thither, having thus an opportunity to explore old ground again and
add new commentaries to the book.
All this material is embodied in the present volume which is to be
considered but as a supplementary volume of "Addenda" and "Corrigenda" to
the Book itself. I have gathered matter for a younger editor when a fourth
edition of the Book of Ser Marco Polo is undertaken, age preventing the
present editor to entertain the hope to be able to do the work himself.
To many who lent their aid have I to give my thanks: all are named in the
following pages, but I have special obligation to Sir Aurel STEIN, to Dr.
B. LAUFER, of Chicago, to Sir Richard TEMPLE, and to Prof. Paul PELLIOT,
of the College de France, Paris, who furnished me with some of the more
important notes. A paper by Prof. E.H. PARKER in the Asiatic Quarterly
Review proved also of considerable help.
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