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 documents 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;