humanities marco polo

HERE BEGINS THE DESCRIPTION OF THE INTERIOR OF CATHAY; AND FIRST OF
THE RIVER PULISANGHIN

aCCOUNT OF THE CITY OF JUJU

  NOTES.--1. The Silks called _Sendals_. 2. Chochau. 3. Bifurcation of Two
  Great Roads at this point.

THE KINGDOM OF TAIANFU

  NOTES.--1. Acbaluc. 2. T'ai-yuan fu. 3. Grape-wine of that place.
  4. P'ing-yang fu.

CONCERNING THE CASTLE OF CAICHU. THE GOLDEN KING AND PRESTER JOHN

  NOTES.--1. The Story and Portrait of the _Roi d'Or_. 2. Effeminacy
  reviving in every Chinese Dynasty.

HOW PRESTER JOHN TREATED THE GOLDEN KING HIS PRISONER

XL.--CONCERNING THE GREAT RIVER CARAMORAN AND THE CITY OF CACHANFU

  NOTES.--1. The Kara Muren. 2. Former growth of silk in Shan-si and
  Shen-si. 3. The _akche_ or _asper_.

CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TEBET

  NOTES.--1. The Part of Tibet and events referred to. 2. Noise of burning
  bamboos. 3. Road retains its desolate character. 4. Persistence of
  eccentric manners illustrated. 5. Name of the Musk animal

CONCERNING THE GREAT PROVINCE OF MAABAR, WHICH IS CALLED INDIA THE
GREATER, AND IS ON THE MAINLAND

  NOTES.--1. Ma'bar, its definition, and notes on its Mediaeval History.
  2. The Pearl Fishery.

CONTINUES TO SPEAK OF THE PROVINCE OF MAABAR

  NOTES.--1. Costume. 2. Hindu Royal Necklace. 3. Hindu use of the Rosary.
  4. The Saggio. 5. Companions in Death; the word _Amok_. 6. Accumulated
  Wealth of Southern India at this time. 7. Horse Importation from the
  Persian Gulf. 8. Religious Suicides. 9. Suttees. 10. Worship of the Ox.
  The Govis. 11. Verbal. 12. The Thomacides. 13. Ill-success of
  Horse-breeding in S. India. 14. Curious Mode of Arrest for Debt. 15. The
  Rainy Seasons. 16. Omens of the Hindus. 17. Strange treatment of Horses.
  18. The Devadasis. 19. Textual.

CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF MADEIGASCAR

  NOTES.--1. Madagascar; some confusion here with Magadoxo. 2. Sandalwood.
  3. Whale-killing. The _Capidoglio_ or Sperm-Whale. 4. The Currents
  towards the South. 5. The Rukh (and see Appendix L. 11). 6. More on the
  dimensions assigned thereto. 7. Hippopotamus Teeth.

XXXIV.--CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF ZANGHIBAR. A WORD ON INDIA IN GENERAL

  NOTES.--1. Zangibar; Negroes. 2. Ethiopian Sheep. 3. Giraffes. 4. Ivory
  trade. 5. Error about Elephant-taming. 6. Number of Islands assigned to
  the Indian Sea. 7. The Three Indies, and various distributions thereof.
  Polo's Indian Geography.

XXXV.--TREATING OF THE GREAT PROVINCE OF ABASH, WHICH IS MIDDLE INDIA, AND
IS ON THE MAINLAND

  NOTES.--1. Habash or Abyssinia. Application of the name India to it.
  2. Fire Baptism ascribed to the Abyssinian Christians. 3. Polo's idea of
  the position of Aden. 4. Taming of the African Elephant for War.
  5. Marco's Story of the Abyssinian Invasion of the Mahomedan Low-Country,
  and Review of Abyssinian Chronology in connection therewith. 6. Textual.

XXXVI.--CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ADEN

  NOTES.--1. The Trade to Alexandria from India via Aden. 2. "_Roncins a
  deux selles_." 3. The Sultan of Aden. The City and its Great Tanks.
  4. The Loss of Acre.

XXXVII.--CONCERNING THE CITY OF ESHER

  NOTES.--1. Shihr. 2. Frankincense. 3. Four-horned Sheep. 4. Cattle fed on
  Fish. 5. Parallel passage.

XXXVIII.--CONCERNING THE CITY OF DUFAR

KIANG NAN AN OLD CHINESE CITY DURING MARCO POLO

Itineraries of MARCO POLO, No. VI. The Journey through KIANG-NAN,
CHE-KIANG, and FO-XIEN.

1. Map to illustrate Marco Polo's Chapters on the MALAY COUNTRIES.
2. Map to illustrate his Chapters on SOUTHERN INDIA.

1. Sketch showing the Position of KAYAL in Tinnevelly.

YUN-NAN into the VALLEY of the
KIN-SHA KIANG (the BRIUS of Polo). From the same.

the three Cities under the Sung.

YANG-CHAU: the Great City under the Sung. 

.City of Cambaluc and have ridden ten miles, you come to

a very large river which is called PULISANGHIN, and flows into the ocean,
so that merchants with their merchandise ascend it from the sea. Over this
River there is a very fine stone bridge, so fine indeed, that it has very
few equals. The fashion of it is this: it is 300 paces in length, and it
must have a good eight paces of width, for ten mounted men can ride across
it abreast. It has 24 arches and as many water-mills, and 'tis all of very
fine marble, well built and firmly founded. Along the top of the bridge
there is on either side a parapet of marble slabs and columns, made in this
way. At the beginning of the bridge there is a marble column, and under it
a marble lion, so that the column stands upon the lion's loins, whilst on
the top of the column there is a second marble lion, both being of great
size and beautifully executed sculpture. At the distance of a pace from
this column there is another precisely the same, also with its two lions,
and the space between them is closed with slabs of grey marble to prevent
people from falling over into the water. And thus the columns run from
space to space along either side of the bridge, so that altogether it is a
beautiful object

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