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2 3 2 . HERE ENDS THE BOOK OF THE MILION BY SER MARCO POLO
people who make that journey so often that everyone knows what is there, and therefore I am
silent and say nothing to you of that. You have heard of our leaving, how we left the great
Kaan, at the beginning of the book in a chapter where it speaks of the trouble and weariness
which Master Mafeu and Master Nicolau and Master Marc had in asking leave of the great
Kaan; and in that chapter it tells of the good fortune which we had in our departure. And
know that íf that fortune had not been, we should with great trouble and much pains have
ever been able to leave him, so that I believe we should never have come back to our country.
But I believe that our return was the pleasure of God, that the things which are in the world
might be known. For, according as we have told at the beginning of the book in the first
heading, there was never any man, neither Christian nor Saracen nor Tartar nor pagan, who
has ever explored so much of the world as did Master Marc son of Master Nicolau Pol noble
and great citizen of the city of Venese.
Thank
God Amen.
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