The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 / Page 21 (Color Image)

0021	The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2

SYNOPSIS OF CONTENTS xiii

CHAP. PAGE

VIII.-CHOW ARGON TOOK COUNSEL WITH HIS FOLLOWERS

ABOUT ATTACKING HIS UNCLE ACOMAT SOLDAN • . 468

IX.—`HOW THE BARONS OF ARGON ANSWERED HIS ADDRESS

X.—TTHE MESSAGE SENT BY ARGON TO ACOMAT .

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XI.—How ACOMAT REPLIED TO ARGON'S MESSAGE .

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469

XII.—OF THE BATTLE BETWEEN ARGON AND ACOMAT, AND

THE CAPTIVITY OF ARGON . . • . 470

NOTES. —I. Verbal. 2. Historical.

XIII.—How ARGON WAS DELIVERED FROM PRISON . ▪ . 471

XIV.—HOW ARGON GOT THE SOVEREIGNTY AT LAST . • . 472

XV.—tHOw ACOMAT WAS TAKEN PRISONER • . 473

XVI.—How ACOMAT WAS SLAIN BY ORDER OF HIS NEPHEW . 473

XVII.—How ARGON WAS RECOGNISED AS SOVEREIGN . . • 473

NOTES.—t. The historical circumstances and persons gamed in these chapters. 2. Arghún's accession and death.

XVIII.—How KIACATU SEIZED THE SOVEREIGNTY AFTER ARGON'S

DEATH . . 475

NOTE.—The reign and character of Kaikhátú.

XIX.—HOW BAIDU SEIZED THE SOVEREIGNTY AFTER THE

DEATH OF KIACATU . . . 476

NOTES.—I. Baidu's alleged Christianity. 2. Gházán Khan.

XX.—CONCERNING KING CONCHI WHO RULES THE FAR

NORTH . . 479

NOTES.—t. Kaunchi Khan. 2. Siberia. 3. Dog-sledges. 4. The animal here styled Erculin. The Vair. 5. Yugria.

XXI.—CONCERNING THE LAND OF DARKNESS . 484

NOTES.—I. The Land of Darkness. 2. The Legend of the Mares and their Foals. 3. Dumb Trade with the People of the Darkness.

XXII.—DESCRIPTION OF ROSIA AND ITS PEOPLE. PROVINCE

OF LAC . . . .

NOTES.—I. Old Accounts of Russia. Russian Silver and Rubles. 2. Lac, or Wallachia. 3. Oroech, Norway (?) or the Waraeg Country (?)

486

X I I I.—HE BEGINS TO SPEAK OF THE STRAITS OF CONSTAN-

TINOPLE, BUT DECIDES TO LEAVE THAT MATTER . .

490

t Of chapters so marked nothing is given but the substance in brief.

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