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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO BOOK IV.
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CHAPTER XXXIV. AND LAST
CONCLUSION.*
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AND now ye have heard all that we can tell you about
the Tartars and the Saracens and their customs, and
likewise about the other countries of the world as
far as our researches and information extend. Only
we have said nothing whatever about the GREATER
SEA and the provinces that lie round it, although we
know it thoroughly. But it seems to me a needless
and useless task to speak about places which are
visited by people every day. For there are so many
who sail all about that sea constantly, Venetians, and
Genoese, and Pisans, and many others, that everybody
knows all about it, and that is the reason that I pass it
over and say nothing of it.
Of the manner in which we took our departure
from the Court of the Great Kaan you have heard at
the beginning of the Book, in that chapter where
we told you of all the vexation and trouble that
Messer Maffeo and Messer Nicolo and Messer Marco
had about getting the Great Kaan's leave to go ; and
in the same chapter is related the lucky chance that
led to our departure. And you may be sure that
but for that lucky chance, we should never have got
away in spite of all our trouble, and never have got
back to our country again. But I believe it was
God's pleasure that we should get back in order that
people might learn about the things that the world
contains. For according to what has been said in
the introduction at the beginning of the Book, there
* This conclusion is not found in any copy except in the Crusca Italian, and, with a little modifica tion, in another at Florence, belonging to the Pucci family. It is just possible that it was the embellishment cf a transcriber or translator ; but in any case it is very old, and serves as an epilogue.
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