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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO PROL.
Pope's being made, we desire to return to the Great
Kaan ; for we have already tarried long, and there has
been more than enough delay." To which the Legate
replied : " Since 'tis your wish to go back, I am well con-
tent." Wherefore he caused letters to be written for
delivery to the Great Kaan, bearing testimony that the
Two Brothers had come in all good faith to accomplish
his charge, but that as there was no Pope they had been
unable to do so.
NOTE I.—In a Pilgrimage of date apparently earlier than this, the Pilgrim says of the Sepulchre : " The Lamp which had been placed by His head (when He lay there) still burns on the same spot day and night. We took a blessing from it (i.e. apparently took some of the oil as a beneficent memorial), and replaced it." (Itinerarium Antonini Placentini in Bollandists, May, vol. ii. p. xx. )
[" Five great oil lamps," says Daniel, the Russian Hégoumène, 11°6-1107 (Itinéraires russes en Orient, trad. pour la Soc. de l'Orient Latin, par Mme. B. de Khitrowo, Geneva, 1889, p. 13), "burning continually night and day, are hung in the Sepulchre of Our Lord."—H. C.]
CHAPTER XI.
How THE Two BROTHERS SET OUT FROM ACRI', AND MARK ALONG
WITH THEM.
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WHEN the Two Brothers had received the Legate's
letters, they set forth from Acre to return to the Grand
Kaan, and got as far as Layas. But shortly after their
arrival there they had news that the Leg-ate aforesaid was
chosen Pope, taking the name of Pope Gregory of
Piacenza ; news which the Two Brothers were very glad
indeed to hear. And presently there reached them at
Layas a message from the Legate, now the Pope, desiring
them, on the part of the Apostolic See, not to proceed
further on their journey, but to return to him inconti-
nently. And what shall I tell you ? The King of
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