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0015 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
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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,

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