Ramusio says that the Traveller will now "begin to speak of the
territories, cities, and provinces of the Greater, Lesser, and Middle
India, in which regions he was when in the service of the Great Kaan,
being sent thither on divers matters of business. And then again when he
returned to the same quarter with the queen of King Argon, and with his
father and uncle, on his way back to his native land. So he will relate
the strange things that he saw in those Indies, not omitting others which
he heard related by persons of reputation and worthy of credit, and things
that were pointed out to him on the maps of manners of the Indies
aforesaid."
[Illustration: The Kaan's Fleet leaving the Port of Zayton]
[Illustration: Marco Polo's Itineraries No. VI. (Book II, Chapters 67-82)
Journey through Manzi Polo's names thus Kinsay]
[1] Dr. C. Douglas objects to this derivation of Zayton, that the place
was never called Tseut'ung absolutely, but T'seu-t'ung-ching, "city
of prickly T'ung-trees"; and this not as a name, but as a polite
literary epithet, somewhat like "City of Palaces" applied to Calcutta.
[2] Giovanni did not get to Zayton; but two years later he got to Canton
with Fernao Perez, was sent ashore as Factor, and a few days after
died of fever. (De Barros, III.
