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Citation Information
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PICHALOK
INDEX POLO, MARCO
Pichalok, ii. 279n
Pievtsov, General, i. 188n ; expedition,
20012
Pigeon posts, i. 438n
Pig-shells, ii. 85
Piju (Pei-chau), ii. 141
Pilgrimage, to Adam's Sepulchre in
Ceylon, ii. 319 ; to Shrine of St.
Thomas, 353
" Pillar Road," ii. 32n
Pima (Pim), i. 191, 192n
Pinati, king of Kaulam, ii. 380;1
Pine woods in Mongolian desert, i. 224 in South China, ii. 25111 P'ing-chang, Fanchán, or second class Minister, i. 432n
P'ing-yang fu (Pianfu), ii. 13, 16n, 2511 Pinna-Cael (Punnei-Káyal), ii. 372n Pipino, Friar Francesco, 66, 81, 103, i. 19n, 22n, 23n, 144n, 156ít,
395;2, ii. 12012, 517n
Pirabandi or Bir Pandi (Vira Pandi), ii.
333n-335n
Pirada, ii. 305n
Pirates of Malabar, ii. 389-39on ; Guzerat, 392 ; Tana, 395 ; Somnath, 40012 ; Socotra, 407, 41 on
Piratical customs at Eli, ii. 385, 39on Pistachioes, i. 97, 114n, 125n, 153, 155;2 Plane, Oriental or Chinár, i. 127, 128n,
131n, 135n, 13811
Plano Carpini, 15, passim
Pog, or Fiag River, i. 54n
Poison, antidote to, ii. 79
Poisoning guests, custom of, ii. 84n Poisonous pasturage, i. 217, 21811
Poison wind, i. 108, 12011
Poland, Mongol invasion of, ii. 493n Pole, or Jackdaw on Polo's scutcheon,
7
Pole-star, invisible in Java the Less, ii.
284, 292 ; visible again in India, 382,
389, 392, 397
Police ; of Cambaluc, i. 414 ; Kinsay, ii.
187, 188
Politeness of Chinese, i. 457, 462n
Polo, Andrea, grandfather of Marco, 8, 14, 26
Antonio, illegitimate son of Elder Marco, 26
Bellela, second daughter, 69, 71; died before 1333, 76, ii. 506n
-- Donata, wife of Traveller, 69, 71 ; sale of property to her husband, 30, ii. 507, 512 ; death between 1333-1336, 76 ; before Council, 77 ; may have been Loredano, 69, 77, 51012, 51212, 518n, 52012
or Bragadino, Fantina, eldest daughter of Traveller, 69, 71, 76, ii. 5o6n, 513n
Felice, a cousin, 25, 64
---- Fiordelisa, wife of last, 25, 65
Polo, Fiordelisa, daughter of Maffeo the Younger, 17, 64
Maffeo, brother of Nicolo, 14, 15, 64 ; in Kan-chau, i. 220 ; time of death between 1309 and 1318, 66
Maffeo, brother of Traveller, 15, 16 ; probabilities as to birth, 17, 18, 25 ; will of, 26, ii. 51012; abstract from, 64-66
Marco, the elder son of Andrea,
Uncle of the Traveller, 14 ; his will,
17, 25, 26, i. 4, ii. 51on
Marco, the Traveller, veracity, perplexities in his biography, 1 ; Ramusio's notices, extracts from, 2 seqq. ; recognition of his names of places, paralleled with Columbus, 3, 10,E ; nicknamed Millioni, 6, 67 ; story of his capture at Curzola, 6 ; writes his book in prison at Genoa, 6 ; release and marriage, 7 ; arms, 7 ; claim to nobility, 14 ; supposed autograph, ib. ; his birth, circumstances of, 15 ; is taken to East, 18; employed by Kúblái, mentioned in Chinese Records, 21, see i. 420 ; mission to Yun-nan, 21 ; governor of Yang-chau, 22 ; employed at Kan-chau, Kara Korum, Champa and Indian Seas, 22 ; returns home, 23-24 ; mentioned in his Uncle Marco's will, 23 ; commands a galley at Curzola, 46 ; taken prisoner and carried to Genoa, 48; his imprisonment there, 32 ; dictates his book to Rusticiano, 32 ; release and return to Venice, 52 ; evidence as to story of capture, 53-55 ; dying vindication of his book, 54 ; executor to his brother Maffeo, 64; record of exemption from municipal penalty, 66; gives copy of book to T. de Cepoy, 68 ; marriage and daughters, 69 ; lawsuit with Paulo Girardo, proceeding regarding house property, 7o ; illness and last will, 70-74 ; probable date of death, 74 ; place of burial, 74 ; professed portraits of, 75-76 ; alleged wealth, 77 ; estimate of him and of his book, 104 seqq. ; true claims to glory, zo6 ; faint indications of personality, 107 ; rare indications of humour, 108 ; absence of scientific notions, 109; geographical data in book, r09 ; his acquisition of languages, ignorance of Chinese, deficiencies in Chinese notices, 110 ; historical notices, 111; allusions to Alexander, 113 ; incredulity about his stories, z15 ; contemporary recognition, 116 seqq. ; by T. de Cepoy, Friar Pipino, 118 ; J. d'Acqui, Giov. Villani, and P. d'Abano, 119 ; notice by John of Ypres, 121 ; borrowings in poem of Bauduin de Sebourc, 121 seqq. ; Chaucer and, z28 ; influence
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