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Citation Information
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION.
LITTLE did I think, some thirty years ago, when I
received a copy of the first edition of this grand work,
that I should be one day entrusted with the difficult
but glorious task of supervising the third edition.
When the first edition of the Book of Ser Marco Polo
reached "Far Cathay," it created quite a stir in the
small circle of the learned foreigners, who then resided
there, avid became a starting-point for many researches,
of which the results have been made use of partly in
the second edition, and partly in the present. The
Archimandrite PALLADIUS and Dr. E. BRETSCHNEIDER,
at Peking, ALEX. WYLIE, at Shang-hai friends of
mine who have, alas ! passed away, with the exception
of the Right Rev. Bishop G. E. MOULE, of Hang-chau,
the only survivor of this little group of hard-working
scholars, were the first to explore the Chinese sources
of information which were to yield a rich harvest into
their hands.
When I returned home from China in 1876, I
was introduced to Colonel HENRY YULE, at the India
Office, by our common friend, Dr. REINHOLD R OST, and
from that time we met frequently and kept up a
correspondence which terminated only with the life of
the great geographer, whose friend I had become. A
new edition of the travels of Friar Odoric of Pordenone,
Vii
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