DEDICATION. TO THE MEMORY OF SIR RODERICK I. MURCHISON, BART.,
CONTENTS OF VOL. I. DEDICATION NOTE BY MISS YULE PREFACE TO
NOTE BY MISS YULE
PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION
PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.
ORIGINAL PREFACE.
TO HENRY YULE.
MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK. INTRODUCTORY NOTICES. I. OBSCURITIES
THE BOOK OF MARCO POLO. PROLOGUE. PRELIMINARY ADDRESS OF
BOOK FIRST.
BOOK SECOND. PART I. I. OF CUBLAY KAAN, THE GREAT KAAN NOW REIGNING, AND OF HIS GREAT PUISSANCE
EXPLANATORY LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS TO VOLUME I. INSERTED PLATES AND MAPS.
INTRODUCTORY NOTICES.
I. OBSCURITIES IN THE HISTORY OF HIS LIFE AND BOOK. RAMUSIO'S STATEMENTS.
II. SKETCH OF THE STATE OF THE EAST AT THE TIME OF THE JOURNEYS OF THE POLO FAMILY.
III. THE POLO FAMILY. PERSONAL HISTORY OF THE TRAVELLERS DOWN TO THEIR FINAL RETURN FROM THE EAST.
IV. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE MANSION OF THE POLO FAMILY AT VENICE.
V. DIGRESSION CONCERNING THE WAR-GALLEYS OF THE MEDITERRANEAN STATES IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
VI. THE JEALOUSIES AND NAVAL WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA. LAMBA
VII. RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO'S
VIII. NOTICES OF MARCO POLO'S HISTORY, AFTER THE TERMINATION OF HIS IMPRISONMENT AT GENOA.
IX. MARCO POLO'S BOOK; AND THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH IT WAS FIRST WRITTEN.
X. VARIOUS TYPES OF TEXT OF MARCO POLO'S BOOK.
XI. SOME ESTIMATE OF THE CHARACTER OF POLO AND HIS BOOK.
XII. CONTEMPORARY RECOGNITION OF POLO AND HIS BOOK.
XIII. NATURE OF POLO'S INFLUENCE ON GEOGRAPHICAL KNOWLEDGE.
XIV. EXPLANATIONS REGARDING THE BASIS ADOPTED FOR THE PRESENT TRANSLATION.
PROLOGUE.
CHAPTER I. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS POLO SET FORTH FROM CONSTANTINOPLE TO TRAVERSE THE WORLD.
CHAPTER II. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS WENT ON BEYOND SOLDAIA.
CHAPTER III. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS, AFTER CROSSING A DESERT,
CHAPTER IV. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS TOOK THE ENVOYS' COUNSEL, AND WENT TO THE COURT OF THE GREAT KAAN.
CHAPTER V. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS ARRIVED AT THE COURT OF THE GREAT KAAN.
CHAPTER VI. HOW THE GREAT KAAN ASKED ALL ABOUT THE MANNERS OF
CHAPTER VII. HOW THE GREAT KAAN SENT THE TWO BROTHERS AS HIS ENVOYS TO THE POPE.
CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE GREAT KAAN GAVE THEM A TABLET OF GOLD, BEARING HIS ORDERS IN THEIR BEHALF.
CHAPTER IX. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS CAME TO THE CITY OF ACRE.
CHAPTER X. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AGAIN DEPARTED FROM VENICE, ON
CHAPTER XI. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS SET OUT FROM ACRE, AND MARK ALONG WITH THEM.
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE NEW POPE.
CHAPTER XIII. HOW MESSER NICOLO AND MESSER MAFFEO POLO,
CHAPTER XIV. HOW MESSER NICOLO AND MESSER MAFFEO POLO AND MARCO
CHAPTER XV. HOW THE EMPEROR SENT MARK ON AN EMBASSY OF HIS.
CHAPTER XVI. HOW MARK RETURNED FROM THE MISSION WHEREON HE HAD BEEN SENT.
CHAPTER XVII. HOW MESSER NICOLO, MESSER MAFFEO, AND MESSER
CHAPTER XVIII. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AND MESSER MARCO TOOK LEAVE
CHAPTER I. HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA.
CHAPTER II. CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TURCOMANIA.
CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF THE GREATER HERMENIA.
CHAPTER IV. OF GEORGIANIA AND THE KINGS THEREOF.
CHAPTER V. OF THE KINGDOM OF MAUSUL.
CHAPTER VI. OF THE GREAT CITY OF BAUDAS, AND HOW IT WAS TAKEN.
CHAPTER VII. HOW THE CALIF OF BAUDAS TOOK COUNSEL TO SLAY ALL THE CHRISTIANS IN HIS LAND.
CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE CHRISTIANS WERE IN GREAT DISMAY BECAUSE OF WHAT THE CALIF HAD SAID.
CHAPTER IX. HOW THE ONE-EYED COBLER WAS DESIRED TO PRAY FOR THE CHRISTIANS.
CHAPTER X. HOW THE PRAYER OF THE ONE-EYED COBLER CAUSED THE MOUNTAIN TO MOVE.
CHAPTER XI. OF THE NOBLE CITY OF TAURIS.
CHAPTER XII. OF THE MONASTERY OF ST. BARSAMO ON THE BORDERS OF TAURIS.
CHAPTER XIII. OF THE GREAT COUNTRY OF PERSIA; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THE THREE KINGS.
CHAPTER XIV. WHAT BEFELL WHEN THE THREE KINGS RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
CHAPTER XV. OF THE EIGHT KINGDOMS OF PERSIA, AND HOW THEY ARE NAMED.
CHAPTER XVI. CONCERNING THE GREAT CITY OF YASDI.
CHAPTER XVII. CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KERMAN.
CHAPTER XVIII. OF THE CITY OF CAMADI AND ITS RUINS; ALSO TOUCHING THE CARAUNA ROBBERS.
CHAPTER XIX. OF THE DESCENT TO THE CITY OF HORMOS.
CHAPTER XX. OF THE WEARISOME AND DESERT ROAD THAT HAS NOW TO BE TRAVELLED.
CHAPTER XXI. CONCERNING THE CITY OF COBINAN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE MADE THERE.
CHAPTER XXII. OF A CERTAIN DESERT THAT CONTINUES FOR EIGHT DAYS' JOURNEY.
CHAPTER XXIII. CONCERNING THE OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAIN.
CHAPTER XXIV. HOW THE OLD MAN USED TO TRAIN HIS ASSASSINS.
CHAPTER XXV. HOW THE OLD MAN CAME BY HIS END.
CHAPTER XXVI. CONCERNING THE CITY OF SAPURGAN.
CHAPTER XXVII. OF THE CITY OF BALC.
CHAPTER XXVIII. OF TAICAN, AND THE MOUNTAINS OF SALT. ALSO OF THE PROVINCE OF CASEM.
CHAPTER XXIX. OF THE PROVINCE OF BADASHAN.
CHAPTER XXX. OF THE PROVINCE OF PASHAI
CHAPTER XXXI. OF THE PROVINCE OF KESHIMUR.
CHAPTER XXXII. OF THE GREAT RIVER OF BADASHAN.
CHAPTER XXXIII. OF THE KINGDOM OF CASCAR.
CHAPTER XXXIV. OF THE GREAT CITY OF SAMARCAN.
CHAPTER XXXV. OF THE PROVINCE OF YARCAN.
CHAPTER XXXVI. OF A PROVINCE CALLED COTAN.
CHAPTER XXXVII. OF THE PROVINCE OF PEIN.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. OF THE PROVINCE OF CHARCHAN.
CHAPTER XXXIX. OF THE CITY OF LOP AND THE GREAT DESERT.
CHAPTER XL. CONCERNING THE GREAT PROVINCE OF TANGUT.
CHAPTER XLI. OF THE PROVINCE OF CAMUL.
CHAPTER XLII. OF THE PROVINCE OF CHINGINTALAS.
CHAPTER XLIII. OF THE PROVINCE OF SUKCHUR.
CHAPTER XLIV. OF THE CITY OF CAMPICHU.
CHAPTER XLV. OF THE CITY OF ETZINA.
CHAPTER XLVI. OF THE CITY OF CARACORON.
CHAPTER XLVII. OF CHINGHIS, AND HOW HE BECAME THE FIRST KAAN OF THE TARTARS.
CHAPTER XLVIII. HOW CHINGHIS MUSTERED HIS PEOPLE TO MARCH AGAINST PRESTER JOHN.
CHAPTER XLIX. HOW PRESTER JOHN MARCHED TO MEET CHINGHIS.
CHAPTER L. THE BATTLE BETWEEN CHINGHIS KAAN AND PRESTER JOHN.
CHAPTER LI. OF THOSE WHO DID REIGN AFTER CHINGHIS KAAN, AND OF THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS.
CHAPTER LII. CONCERNING THE CUSTOMS OF THE TARTARS.
CHAPTER LIII. CONCERNING THE GOD OF THE TARTARS.
CHAPTER LIV. CONCERNING THE TARTAR CUSTOMS OF WAR.
CHAPTER LV. CONCERNING THE ADMINISTERING OF JUSTICE AMONG THE TARTARS.
CHAPTER LVI. SUNDRY PARTICULARS OF THE PLAIN BEYOND CARACORON.
CHAPTER LVII. OF THE KINGDOM OF ERGUIUL, AND PROVINCE OF SINJU.
CHAPTER LVIII. OF THE KINGDOM OF EGRIGAIA.
CHAPTER LIX. CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TENDUC, AND THE DESCENDANTS OF PRESTER JOHN.
CHAPTER LX. CONCERNING THE KAAN'S PALACE OF CHAGANNOR.
CHAPTER LXI. OF THE CITY OF CHANDU, AND THE KAAN'S PALACE THERE.
BOOK II.
PART I. THE KAAN, HIS COURT AND CAPITAL.
CHAPTER I. OF CUBLAY KAAN, THE GREAT KAAN NOW REIGNING, AND OF HIS GREAT PUISSANCE.
CHAPTER II. CONCERNING THE REVOLT OF NAYAN, WHO WAS UNCLE TO THE GREAT KAAN CUBLAY.
CHAPTER III. HOW THE GREAT KAAN MARCHED AGAINST NAYAN.
CHAPTER IV. OF THE BATTLE THAT THE GREAT KAAN FOUGHT WITH NAYAN.
CHAPTER V. HOW THE GREAT KAAN CAUSED NAYAN TO BE PUT TO DEATH.
CHAPTER VI. HOW THE GREAT KAAN WENT BACK TO THE CITY OF CAMBALUC.
CHAPTER VII. HOW THE KAAN REWARDED THE VALOUR OF HIS CAPTAINS.
CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING THE PERSON OF THE GREAT KAAN.
CHAPTER IX. CONCERNING THE GREAT KAAN'S SONS.
CHAPTER X. CONCERNING THE PALACE OF THE GREAT KAAN.
CHAPTER XI. CONCERNING THE CITY OF CAMBALUC.
CHAPTER XII. HOW THE GREAT KAAN MAINTAINS A GUARD OF TWELVE THOUSAND HORSE, WHICH ARE CALLED KESHICAN.
CHAPTER XIII. THE FASHION OF THE GREAT KAAN'S TABLE AT HIS HIGH FEASTS.
CHAPTER XIV. CONCERNING THE GREAT FEAST HELD BY THE GRAND KAAN EVERY YEAR ON HIS BIRTHDAY.
CHAPTER XV. OF THE GREAT FESTIVAL WHICH THE KAAN HOLDS ON NEW YEAR'S DAY.
CHAPTER XVI. CONCERNING THE TWELVE THOUSAND BARONS WHO RECEIVE
CHAPTER XVII. HOW THE GREAT KAAN ENJOINETH HIS PEOPLE TO SUPPLY HIM WITH GAME.
CHAPTER XVIII. OF THE LIONS AND LEOPARDS AND WOLVES THAT THE KAAN KEEPS FOR THE CHASE.
CHAPTER XIX. CONCERNING THE TWO BROTHERS WHO HAVE CHARGE OF THE KAAN'S HOUNDS.
CHAPTER XX. HOW THE EMPEROR GOES ON A HUNTING EXPEDITION.
CHAPTER XXI. REHEARSAL OF THE WAY THE YEAR OF THE GREAT KAAN IS DISTRIBUTED.
CHAPTER XXII. CONCERNING THE CITY OF CAMBALUC, AND ITS GREAT TRAFFIC AND POPULATION.
CHAPTER XXIII. [CONCERNING THE OPPRESSIONS OF ACHMATH THE
CHAPTER XXIV. HOW THE GREAT KAAN CAUSETH THE BARK OF TREES,
CHAPTER XXV. CONCERNING THE TWELVE BARONS WHO ARE SET OVER ALL THE AFFAIRS OF THE GREAT KAAN.
CHAPTER XXVI. HOW THE KAAN'S POSTS AND RUNNERS ARE SPED THROUGH MANY LANDS AND PROVINCES.
CHAPTER XXVII. HOW THE EMPEROR BESTOWS HELP ON HIS PEOPLE, WHEN
CHAPTER XXVIII. HOW THE GREAT KAAN CAUSES TREES TO BE PLANTED BY THE HIGHWAYS.
CHAPTER XXIX. CONCERNING THE RICE-WINE DRUNK BY THE PEOPLE OF CATHAY.
CHAPTER XXX. CONCERNING THE BLACK STONES THAT ARE DUG IN CATHAY, AND ARE BURNT FOR FUEL.
CHAPTER XXXI. HOW THE GREAT KAAN CAUSES STORES OF CORN TO BE
CHAPTER XXXII. OF THE CHARITY OF THE EMPEROR TO THE POOR.
CHAPTER XXXIII. [CONCERNING THE ASTROLOGERS IN THE CITY OF CAMBALUC.]
CHAPTER XXXIV. [CONCERNING THE RELIGION OF THE CATHAYANS;[NOTE
END OF VOL I.
Title: The Travels of Marco Polo Volume 1
Author: Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
Language: English
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