Nayan - P'ai Tzu - Mongol Imperial Family - Hunting Leopard -
Cachar Modun - Bark of Trees - Value of Gold - Ch'ing siang - Cycle
of Twelve - Persian.
BOOK II. PART II. JOURNEY TO THE WEST AND SOUTH-WEST OF CATHAY
Wine and Vines - Christian Monument at Si-ngan fu - Khumdan - Mubupa -
Chien tao - Sindafu - Tibet - Wild Oxen - Kiung tu - Karajang -
Zardandan - Couvade - King of Mien - Burma - Nga-tshaung-gyan - Caugigu.
BOOK II. PART III. JOURNEY SOUTHWARD THROUGH EASTERN PROVINCES OF CATHAY
AND MANZI
Ch'ang Lu Salt - Sangon-Li T'an - Sinjumatu - Great Canal - Caiju
- Lin Ngan - Yanju - Yang Chau - Siege of Saianfu - P'ao - Alans -
Vuju - Kinsay - Silky Fowls - Sugar - Zaitun.
BOOK III. JAPAN, THE ARCHIPELAGO, SOUTHERN INDIA, AND THE COASTS AND
ISLANDS OF THE INDIAN SEA
Nafun - Japanese War - Chamba - Pulo Condore - Locac - Lawaki - Pentam -
Tana-Malayu - Malacca - Sumatra - Ferlec - Sago Tree - Angamanain -
Dog-headed Barbarians - Ceylon - Sagamoni Borcan - Barlaam and Josaphat -
Tanjore - Chinese Pagoda at Negapatam - Suttees in India - Maabar - St.
Thomas - Calamina - Cail - Sappan - Fandaraina - Gozurat - Two Islands
called Male and Female - Scotra - The Rukh - Giraffes - Zanghibar - Aden -
Esher - Dufar - Frankincense.
BOOK IV. WARS AMONG THE TARTAR PRINCES AND SOME ACCOUNT OF THE NORTHERN
COUNTRIES
Russia
APPENDICES
LIST OF MSS. OF MARCO POLO'S BOOK SO FAR AS THEY ARE KNOWN
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF MARCO POLO'S BOOK
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PRINTED EDITIONS
TITLES OF SUNDRY BOOKS AND PAPERS WHICH TREAT OF MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK
SUPPLEMENTARY NOTE
ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS
INDEX
MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.
Introduction, p. 6.
Speaking of Pashai, Sir Aurel Stein (Geog. Journ.), referring to
the notes and memoranda brought home by the great Venetian traveller, has
the following remarks: "We have seen how accurately it reproduces
information about territories difficult of access at all times, and far
away from his own route. It appears to me quite impossible to believe that
such exact data, learned at the very beginning of the great traveller's
long wanderings, could have been reproduced by him from memory alone close
on thirty years later when dictating his wonderful story to Rusticiano
during his captivity at Genoa. Here, anyhow, we have definite proof of the
use of those 'notes and memoranda which he had brought with him,' and
which, as Ramusio's 'Preface' of 1553 tells us (see Yule, Marco
Polo, I., Introduction, p. 6), Messer Marco, while prisoner of war,
was believed to have had sent to him by his father from Venice. How
grateful must geographer and historical student alike feel for these
precious materials having reached the illustrious prisoner safely!"
Introduction, p. 10 n.
KHAKHAN.
"Mr. Rockhill's remarks about the title Khakhan require
supplementing. Of course, the Turks did not use the term before 560 (552
was the exact year), because neither they nor their name 'Turk' had any
self-assertive existence before then, and until that year they were the
'iron-working slaves' of the Jou-jan. The Khakhan of those last-named
Tartars naturally would not allow the petty tribe of Turk to usurp his
exclusive and supreme title.
