The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,335 pages of information about The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2.

LVII.—­CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ANIN

  Notes.—­1.  The Name.  Probable identification of territory. 2.  Textual.

LVIII.—­CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF COLOMAN

  Notes.—­1.  The Name.  The Kolo-man. 2.  Natural defences of Kwei-chau.

LIX.—­CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF CUIJU

  Notes.—­1.  Kwei-chau.  Phungan-lu. 2.  Grass-cloth. 3.  Tigers. 4.  Great
  Dogs. 5.  Silk. 6.  Geographical Review of the Route since Chapter lv.
  7.  Return to Juju.

BOOK SECOND.

(Continued.)

PART III.

Journey Southward through Eastern Provinces of Cathay and Manzi.

LX.—­CONCERNING THE CITIES OF CACANFU AND CHANGLU

  Notes.—­1.  Pauthier’s Identifications. 2.  Changlu.  The Burning of the
  Dead ascribed to the Chinese.

LXI.—­Concerning the city of Chinangli, and that of Tadinfu, and the rebellion of Litan

  Notes.—­1.  T’si-nan fu. 2.  Silk of Shan-tung. 3.  Title Sangon. 4.  Agul
  and Mangkutai. 5.  History of Litan’s Revolt.

LXII.—­CONCERNING THE NOBLE CITY OF SINJUMATU

  Note.—­The City intended.  The Great Canal.

LXIII.—­CONCERNING THE CITIES OF LINJU AND PIJU

  Notes.—­1.  Linju. 2.  Piju.

LXIV.—­CONCERNING THE CITY OF SIJU, AND THE GREAT RIVER CARAMORAN

  Notes.—­1.  Siju. 2.  The Hwang-Ho and its changes. 3.  Entrance to Manzi;
  that name for Southern China.

LXV.—­HOW THE GREAT KAAN CONQUERED THE PROVINCE OF MANZI

Notes.—­1.  Meaning and application of the title Faghfur. 2.  Chinese self-devotion. 3.  Bayan the Great Captain. 4.  His lines of Operation. 5.  The Juggling Prophecy. 6.  The Fall of the Sung Dynasty. 7.  Exposure of Infants, and Foundling Hospitals.

LXVI.—­CONCERNING THE CITY OF COIGANJU

  Note.—­Hwai-ngan fu.

LXVII.—­OF THE CITIES OF PAUKIN AND CAYU

  Note.—­Pao-yng and Kao-yu.

LXVIII.—­OF THE CITIES OF TIJU, TINJU, AND YANJU

  Notes.—­1.  Cities between the Canal and the Sea. 2.  Yang-chau. 3.  Marco
  Polo’s Employment at this City.

LXIX.—­CONCERNING THE CITY OF NANGHIN

  Note.—­Ngan-king.

LXX.—­Concerning the very noble city of Saianfu, and how its capture was effected

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