- E. [2] Called Lazi By Pinkerton, From The Trevigi Edition Of These Travels, Mentioned In The Introduction.

This place, therefore, may be Lassa, in the kingdom or province of Ou, in Middle Thibet, the residence of the Dalai Lama, situate on a branch of the Sampoo, or great Brahma-pootra, or Barampooter river, which joins the Ganges in the lower part of Bengal.

- E.

[3] This sentence most probably is meant to imply the use of cowries, sometimes called porellane shells, both for money and ornament. - E.

[4] Pinkerton, from the Trevigi edition, names the country Cariam, and the governor Cocagio. - E.

[5] The ordinary European price is about fourteen for one. - E.

[6] The description of this creature seems to indicate an alligator or crocodile; which probably Marco had not seen, and only describes from an imperfect account of the natives. - E.

[7] According to Pinkerton, this province is named Cariti, and its principal town Nociam, in the edition of Trevigi. - E.

[8] Named previously Carazam and Caraian, afterwards Caraiam, or Carian. - E.

[9] In some modern maps, Mien is introduced as a large province on the river of Pegu, immediately to the south-west of Yunnan in China, and divided from Bengal by the whole country of Ava. But the distribution of eastern dominion has been always extremely fluctuating; and Mien may then have included all the north of Ava. - E.

[10] In the original text this animal is called the unicorn; a word of the same import with rhinoceros.

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