The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1 / Page 21 (Color Image)

0021	The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION

On his own account. My brother officer, Major OLIVER

ST. JOHN, R.E., has favoured me with a variety of

interesting remarks regarding the Persian chapters,

and has assisted me with new data, very materially

correcting the Itinerary Map in Kerman.

Mr. BLOCHMANN of the Calcutta Madrasa, Sir

DOUGLAS FORSYTH, C.B., lately Envoy to Kashgar, M.

de MAS LATRIE, the Historian of Cyprus, Mr. ARTHUR

GROTE, Mr. EUGENE SCHUYLER of the U.S. Legation

at St. Petersburg, Dr. BUSHELL and Mr. W. F. MAYERS,

of H. M.'s Legation at Peking, Mr. G. PHILLIPS of

Fuchau, Madame OLGA FEDTCHENKO, the widow of

a great traveller too early lost to the world, Colonel

KEATINGE, V. C., C. S. I., Major-General KEYES, C. B.,

Dr. GEORGE BIRDWOOD, Mr. BURGESS, of Bombay, my

old and valued friend Colonel W. H. GREATHED, C.B.,

and the Master of Media val Geography, M. D'AvEZAc

himself, with others besides, have kindly lent assistance

of one kind or another, several of them spontaneously,

and the rest in prompt answer to my requests.

Having always attached much importance to the

matter of illustrations,* I feel greatly indebted to the

liberal action of Mr. Murray in enabling me largely to

increase their number in this edition. Though many

are original, we have also borrowed a good many ; t-

a proceeding which seems to me entirely unobjectionable

when the engravings are truly illustrative of the text,

and not hackneyed.

I regret the augmented bulk of the volumes. There

* I am grateful to Mr. de Khanikoff for his especial recognition of these in a

kindly review of the first edition in the Academy.

t Especially from Lieutenant Garnier's book, mentioned further on ; the only

existing source of illustration for many chapters of Polo.

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