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0292 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.1
マルコ=ポーロ卿の記録 : vol.1
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PROI..

MARCO POLO

Tartar, or Indian, or any mail of any nation, who in

his own person hath bad so much knowledge and

experience of the divers parts of the World and its

Wonders as hath had this Messer Marco ! And for

that reason he bethought himself that it would be a

very great pity did he not cause to be put in writing

all the great marvels that he had seen, or on sure

information heard of, so that other people who had not

these advantages might, by his Book, get such know-

ledge. And I may tell you that in acquiring this know-

ledge be spent in those various parts of the World good

six-and-twenty years. Now, being thereafter an inmate

of the Prison at Genoa, he caused Messer Rusticiano

of Pisa, who was in the said Prison likewise, to reduce

the whole to writing ; and this befell in the year 1 298

from the birth of Jesus.

CHAPTER I.

HOW THE TWO BROTHERS POLO SET FORTH FROM CONSTANTINOPLE

TO TRAVERSE THE WORLD.

IT came to pass in the year of Christ I26o, when

Baldwin was reigning at Constantinople,' that Messer

Nicolas Polo, the father of my lord Mark, and Messer

Maffeo Polo, the brother of Messer Nicolas, were at

the said city of CONSTANTINOPLE, whither they had gone

from Venice with their merchants' wares. Now these

two Brethren, men singularly noble, wise, and provident,

took counsel together to cross the GREATER SEA on a

venture of trade ; so they laid in a store of jewels and

set forth from Constantinople, crossing the Sea to

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