Book I. ACCOUNT OF REGIONS VISITED OR HEARD OF ON THE JOURNEY FROM THE LESSER ARMENIA TO THE COURT OF THE Baudas-Nasich-Death of Mostas'im—Tauris-Cala Ataperistan— Persia-Fat-tailed sheep-The Caraunas Robbers-Pashai-Hormos- Tun-o-Kain-Tutia-Arbre sec-Old Man of the Mountain-Road to Sapurgan-Dogana- Badakhshan - Wakhan - Plateau of Pamir- Paonano Pao-Yue Chi-Bolor-Khotan-Pein-City of Lop-Great Desert-Camul-Chingintalas-Sukchur - Campichu-Etzina-Tatar -Karacathayans - Keraits― Death of Chingiz Khan- BOOK II. PART I. THE KAAN, HIS COURT AND CAPITAL Nayan-P'ai Tzu-Mongol Imperial Family-Hunting Leopard— Wine and Vines-Christian Monument at Si-ngan fu-Khumdan— Mubupa-Chien tao Sindafu-Tibet-Wild Oxen-Kiung tu- Náfún-Japanese War-Chamba-Pulo Condore-Locac-Lawaki— Pentam-Tana-Malayu — Malacca - Sumatra-Ferlec-Sago Tree— Angamanain-Dog-headed Barbarians—Ceylon-Sagamoni Borcan -Barlaam and Josaphat-Tanjore-Chinese Pagoda at Negapatam— Suttees in India-Maabar-St. Thomas-Calamina-Cail-Sappan- Fandaraina-Gozurat-Two Islands called Male and Female-Scotra MARCO POLO AND HIS BOOK. INTRODUCTORY NOTICES. Introduction, p. 6. SPEAKING of Pashai, Sir Aurel Stein (Geog. Journ.), referring to the notes and memoranda brought home by the great Venetian traveller, has the following remarks: "We have seen how accurately it reproduces information about territories difficult of access at all times, and far away from his own route. It appears to me quite impossible to believe that such exact data, learned at the very beginning of the great traveller's long wanderings, could have been reproduced by him from memory alone close on thirty years later when dictating his wonderful story to Rusticiano during his captivity at Genoa. Here, anyhow, we have definite proof of the use of those 'notes and memoranda which he had brought with him,' and which, as Ramusio's 'Preface' of 1553 tells us (see Yule, Marco Polo, I., Introduction, p. 6), Messer Marco, while prisoner of war, was believed to have had sent to him by his father from Venice. How grateful must geographer and historical student alike feel for these precious materials having reached the illustrious prisoner safely!" Introduction, p. 10 n. KHAKHAN. "Mr. Rockhill's remarks about the title Khakhan require supplementing. Of course, the Turks did not use the term before 560 (552 was the exact year), because neither they nor their name 'Turk' had any self-assertive existence before then, and until that year they were the 'iron-working slaves' of the Jou-jan. The Khakhan of those last-named Tartars naturally would not allow the petty tribe of Turk to usurp his exclusive |