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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 | |
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1 |
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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
has been some excision, but the additions visibly and
palpably bl preponderate. The truth is that since the
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completion of the first edition, just four years ago,
large additions have been macle to the stock of our
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knowledge bearing on the subjects of this Book ; and
how these additions have continued to come in up to
the last moment, may be seen in Appendix L,* which
has had to undergo repeated interpolation after being
put in type. KARAKORUM, for a brief space the seat
of the widest empire the world has known, has been
visited ; the ruins of SHANG-TU, the " Xanadu of Cublay
Khan," have been explored ; PAMIR and TANGUT have
been penetrated from side to side ; the famous mountain
Road of SHEN-SI has been traversed and described ;
the mysterious CAINDU has been unveiled ; the publi-
cation of my lamented friend Lieutenant Garnier's great
work on the French Exploration of Indo-China has
provided a mass of illustration of that YUN-NAN for
which but the other day Marco Polo was well-nigh
the most recent authority. Nay, the last two years
have thrown a promise of light even on what seemed
the wildest of Marco's stories, and the bones of a
veritable Ruc from New Zealand lie on the table of
Professor Owen's Cabinet !
M. VIVIEN de St. MARTIN, during the interval of
which we have been speaking, has published a History
of Geography. In treating of Marco Polo, he alludes
to the first edition of this work, most evidently with
no intention of disparagement, but speaks of it as
merely a revision of Marsden's Book. The last thing
I should allow myself to do would b
Y be to apply to a
* [Merged into the notes of the present edition.—H. C.]
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