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Citation Information
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SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS.
MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.
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OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK. RAMUSIO'S STATEMENTS . .
§ 1. Obscurities, etc. 2. Ramusio his earliest Biographer ; his Account of Polo. 3. He vindicates Polo's Geography. 4. Compares him with Columbus. 5. Recounts a Tradition of the Traveller's Return to Venice. 6. Recounts Marco's Capture by the Genoese. 7. His statements about Marco's liberation and marriage. 8. His account of the Family Polo and its termination.
SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST AT THE TIME OF THE
JOURNEYS OF THE POLO FAMILY . 8
§ 9. State of the Levant. io. The various Mongol Sovereignties in Asia and Eastern Europe. IL China. 12. India and Indo-China.
THE POLO FAMILY. PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLERS TILL THEIR FINAL RETURN FROM THE EAST .
§ 13. Alleged origin of the Polos. 14. Claims to Nobility. 15. The Elder Marco Polo. i6. Nicolo and Maffeo Polo commence their Travels. 17. Their intercourse with Kúblái Kaan. 18. Their return home, and Marco's appearance on the scene. 19. Second Journey of the Polo Brothers, accompanied by Marco. (See App. L. 1.) 20. Marco's Employment by Kúblái Kaan ; and his Journeys. 21. Circumstances of the departure of the Polos from the Kaan's Court. 22. They pass by Persia to Venice. Their relations there.
VOL. I. lxxxiii f 2
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