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0032	The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1

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ORIGINAL PREFACE

tion up the Mekong to Yun-nan ; to the Rev. Dr.

CALDWELL, of the S. P. G. Mission in Tinnevelly, for

copious and valuable notes on Southern India ; to my

friends Colonel ROBERT MACLAGAN, R.E., Sir ARTHUR

PHAYRE, and Colonel HENRY MAN, for very valuable notes

and other aid ; to Professor A. SCHIEFNER, of St.

Petersburg, for his courteous communication of very

interesting illustrations not otherwise accessible ; to

Major-General ALEXANDER CUNNINGHAM, of my own

corps, for several valuable letters ; to my friends Dr.

THOMAS OLDHAM, Director of the Geological Survey

of India, Mr. DANIEL HANBURY, F.R.S., Mr. EDWARD

THOMAS, Mr. JAMES FERGUSSON, F.R.S., Sir BARTLE

FRERE, and Dr. HUGH CLEGHORN, for constant interest in

the work and readiness to assist its progress ; to Mr. A:

WYLIE, the learned Agent of the B. and F. Bible Society

at Shang-hai, for valuable help ; to the Hon. G. P.

MARSH, U.S. Minister at the Court of Italy, for untiring

kindness in the communication of his ample stores of

knowledge, and of books. I have also to express my

obligations to Comm. NIcoLÓ BAROZZI, Director of the

City Museum at Venice, and to Professor A. S. MINOTTO,

of the same city ; to Professor ARMINIUS VÁMBÉRY,

the eminent traveller ; to Professor FLÜCKIGER of Bern ;

to the Rev. H. A. JAESCHKE, of the Moravian Mission in

British Tibet ; to Colonel LEWIS PELLY, British Resident

in the Persian Gulf ; to Pandit MANPHUL, C.S.I. (for a

most interesting communication on Badakhshan) ; to my

brother officer, Major T. G. MONTGOMERIE, R.E., of

the Indian Trigonometrical Survey ; to Commendatore

N EGRI, the indefatigable President of the Italian Geo-

graphical Society ; to Dr. ZOTENBERG, of the Great Paris

Library, and to M. CH. MAUNOIR, Secretary-General

of the Société de Géographie ; to Professor HENRY

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