The Travels of Marco Polo Volume II Part 140

---- Maffeo, brother of Traveller, probabilities as to birth; will of; abstract from.

---- Marco, the elder son of Andrea, Uncle of the Traveller, his will.

---- Marco, the Traveller, veracity; perplexities in his biography; Ramusio's notices, extracts from; recognition of his names of places, paralleled with Columbus; nicknamed _Millioni_; story of his capture at Curzola; writes his book in prison at Genoa; release and marriage; arms; claim to n.o.bility; supposed autograph; his birth, circ.u.mstances of; is taken to East; employed by Kublai, mentioned in Chinese Records; mission to Yun-nan; governor of Yang-chau; employed at Kan-chau, Kara Korum, Champa and Indian Seas; returns home; mentioned in his Uncle Marco's will; commands a galley at Curzola; taken prisoner and carried to Genoa; his imprisonment there; dictates his book to Rusticiano; release and return to Venice; evidence as to story of capture; dying vindication of his book; executor to his brother Maffeo; record of exemption from munic.i.p.al penalty; gives copy of book to T. de Cepoy; marriage and daughters; lawsuit with Paulo Girardo, proceeding regarding house property; illness and last will; probable date of death; place of burial; professed portraits of; alleged wealth; estimate of him and of his book; true claims to glory; faint indications of personality; rare indications of humour; absence of scientific notions; geographical data in book; his acquisition of languages, ignorance of Chinese, deficiencies in Chinese notices; historical notices; allusions to Alexander; incredulity about his stories; contemporary recognition; by T. de Cepoy, Friar Pipino; J. d'Acqui, Giov. Villani, and P. d'Abano; notice by John of Ypres; borrowings in poem of Bauduin de Sebourc; Chaucer and; influence on geography, obstacles to its effect; character of mediaeval cosmography; Roger Bacon as geographer; Arab maps; Marino Sanudo's map; Medicean; Carta Catalana largely based on Polo's book; increased appreciation of Polo's book; confusions of nomenclature; introduction of block-printing into Europe and Polo; dictates his narrative; found at Venice; his age; noticed and employed by Kublai; grows in favour, many missions; returns from one to India; escapes from the Karaunas; hears of breed of Bucephalus; recovers from illness in hill climate; hears from Zulficar about Salamander; at Kan-chau; brings home hair of yak; and head and feet of musk deer; witnesses events connected with Ahmad's death; noticed in Chinese annals; whether he had to do with Persian scheme of paper currency in; sent by Khan into Western provinces; governor of Yang-chau; probable extent of his authority; aids in constructing engines for siege of Siang-yang; difficulties as to this statement; on number of vessels on Great Kiang; ignorant of Chinese; on greatness of Kinsay; his notes; sent to inspect amount of revenue from Kinsay; his great experience; never in islands of Sea of Chin; in kingdom of Chamba; historical anecdotes; detained five months in Sumatra, stockade party against wild people; brings Brazil seed to Venice; partakes of tree-flour (sago); takes some to Venice; in six kingdoms of Sumatra; witnesses arrest for debt in Maabar; his erroneous view of Arabian coast; Indian geography; his unequalled travels; Venetian doc.u.ments about him.

---- Marco, called Marcolino, son of Nicolo the Younger.

---- Marco, last male survivor.

---- Marco, others of this name.

---- Maroca, sister of Nicolo the Younger.

---- or Delfino, Moreta, youngest daughter.

Polo, Nicolo and Maffeo, sons of Andrea, their first journey; cross Black Sea to Soldaia; visit Volga country, etc.; go to Bokhara; join envoys to Khan's Court; Kublai's reception of; sent back as envoys to Pope; receive a Golden Tablet; reach Ayas; Acre; Venice; find young Marco there ---- Nicolo, Maffeo and Marco, proceed to Acre; set out for East, recalled from Ayas; set out again with Pope's letters, etc.; reach Kublai's Court; are welcomed; _see_ on their journey outward; their alleged service in capture of Siang-yang; Khan refuses them permission to return home; allowed to go with amba.s.sadors; receive Golden Tablets; on return; story of their arrival at Venice; scheme to a.s.sert their ident.i.ty.

---- Nicolo, his alleged second marriage and sons; probable truth as to time of; his illegitimate sons; approximate time of his death; his tomb.

---- Nicolo the Younger, cousin of traveller.

---- Stefano and Giovannino, illegitimate brothers of Traveller.

---- (?), or Trevisano (?), Fiordelisa, perhaps second wife of Nicolo Polo the Elder, and mother of Maffeo the Younger.

---- or Trevisano, Maria, last survivor of the family, doubts as to her kindred.

---- Family, its duration and end, according to Ramusio, origin; last notices of.

(For relations.h.i.+p of different Polos, _see_ table).

---- Family, branch of S. Geremia.

_Po-lut_ (Pa-lut), _incense_.

Polygamy, supposed effect on population.

_Pomilo_ (Pamir).

_Pompholyx_.

Ponent, or West, term applied by Polo to Kipchak, the Mongol Khanate of the Volga, _see_ Kipchak.

Pong (Mediaeval Shan State).

Poods, Russian.

Popinjays.

Population, vast, of Cathay.

Porcelain manufacture, fragments found at Kayal; Chinese.

---- sh.e.l.ls, _see_ Cowries.

Porcupines.

Pork, mention of, omitted.

_Postin_, sheep-skin coat.

Posts, post-houses and runners, in Siberia.

Po-sz' (Persia).

Potala at L'hasa.

Pottinger.

Poultry, kind of, in Coilum, in Abyssinia (guinea-fowl?).

Pound, sterling.

_Pourpre_, or _Purpura_.

P'o-yang Lake.

Pozdneiev, Professor.

Precious stones or gems, how discovered by pirates.

Prester John (Unc Can, Aung or Ung Khan), Tartar tribute to; account of; marriage relations with Chinghiz; insults Chinghiz' envoys; "these be no soldiers"; marches to meet Chinghiz; real site of battle with Chinghiz; his real fate; slain in battle; his lineage in Tenduc; and the Golden King.

Prices of horses, _see_ Horses.

Printing, imaginary connection of Polo's name with introduction of.

Private names supposed.

Prjevalsky, Colonel N.M.

Probation of Jogis, parallel.

Prophecy regarding Bayan.

_Proques_, the word.

Prost.i.tutes; at Cambaluc, Kinsay.

Provinces, thirty-four of Kublai's Empire.

Pseudo-Callisthenes.

Ptolemies' trained African elephants.

Ptolemy, Sarmatic Gates.

P'u-chau fu.

Pu-ch'eng.

Puer and Esmok.

Pukan Mien-w.a.n.g.

Pulad Chingsang.

Pulisanghin, River and Bridge.

Pulo Bras.

Pulo Condore (Sondur and Condur).

Pulo Gommes (Gauenispola).

Pulo Nankai, or Nasi.

Pulo We, Wai, or Wey.

Punnei-Kayal.

Puranas, the.

_Purpura_, see _Pourpre_.

Putchok.

Putu-ho, "Grape R.".

Pygmies, fact.i.tious (?).

Qal'ah Asgher, hot springs at.

Qara Ars-lan Beg, king of Kerman.

Quails in India.

Queen of Mutfili.

Quicksilver and sulphur potion.

---- as regarded by alchemists.

Quills of the Ruc, _see_ Ruc.

Quilon, Kaulam, etc., _see_ Coilum.

Qumadin (Camadi)

Rabelais.

Rabbanta, a Nestorian monk.

Radloff, Dr. W., map.

Rain.

Rainald, of Da.s.sel, Archbishop.

Rain-makers, _see_ Conjurers.

Rainy season.

Rajkot leather-work.

Rakka, Rakshasas.

Rama Kamheng, king.

Rameshwaram.

Ramnad.

Rampart of Gog and Magog.

Ramusio, Giov. Battista, _pa.s.sim_, his biographical notices of Polo; his edition of Polo.

Rana Paramita's Woman Country.

Ranking, John.

Raonano-Rao.

Rapson, E.J.