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Identifier: bookofsermarcopo00polo (find matches)
Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
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ia, which have been entirely derived from other sources) have been embodied in the Map. But the study of his Book has, I conceive, been essentially the basis of those great portions which I have specified, and the additional matter has not been in mass sufficient to perplex the compiler. Hence we really see * I do not see that al-Biruni deserves the credit in this respect assigned to him by Professor Peschel, so far as one can judge from the data given by Sprenger(Peschel, p. J28 ; Post und Reise-Routen, 81-82.) t For example, Delli, which Polo does not name ; Diogil (Deogir) ; on the Coromandel coast Setemelti, which I take to be a clerical error for Sette-TempH, the Seven Pagodas; round the Gulf of Cambay we have Cambetum (Kambayat), Cocintaya (Kokan-Tana, see vol. ii. p. 396), Goga, Baroche, Neruala (Anharwala), and to the north Moltan. Below Multan are Hocibelch and Bargelidoa, two puzzles.The former is, I think, Uch-baligh, showing that part of the information was fromPerso-Mongol sources.
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part of the Catalan Map (1375)

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