[12] This passage contains points that are omitted in Polo’s book, besides the drawing implied to be from Marco’s own hand! The island is of course Sumatra. The animal is perhaps the peculiar Sumatran wild-goat, figured by Marsden, the hair of which on the back is “coarse and strong, almost like bristles.” (_Sumatra_, p. 115.) [13] A splendid example of Abbot John’s Collection is the _Livre des Merveilles_ of the Great French Library (No. 18 in our _App. F._). This contains Polo, Odoric, William of Boldensel, the Book of the Estate of the Great Kaan by the Archbishop of Soltania, Maundevile, Hayton, and Ricold of Montecroce, of which all but Polo and Maundevile are French versions by this excellent Long John. A list of the Polo miniatures is given in _App. F_. of this Edition, p. 527. It is a question for which there is sufficient ground, whether the Persian Historians Rashiduddin and Wassáf, one or other or both, did not derive certain information that appears in their histories, from Marco Polo personally, he having spent many months in Persia, and at the Court of Tabriz, when either or both may have been there. Such passages as that about the Cotton-trees of Guzerat (vol. ii. p. 393, and note), those about the horse trade with Maabar (id. p. 340, and note), about the brother-kings of that country (id. p. 331), about the naked savages of Necuveram (id. p. 306), about the wild people of Sumatra calling themselves subjects of the Great Kaan (id. pp. 285, 292, 293, 299), have so strong a resemblance to parallel passages in one or both of the above historians, as given in the first and third volumes of Elliot, that the probability, at least, of the Persian writers having derived their information from Polo might be fairly maintained. [14] _Li Romans de Bauduin de Sebourc IIIᵉ Roy de Jhérusalem_; Poēme du XIVᵉ Siècle; Valenciennes, 1841. 2 vols. 8vo. I was indebted to two references of M. Pauthier’s for knowledge of the existence of this work. He cites the legends of the Mountain, and of the Stone of the Saracens from an abstract, but does not seem to have consulted the work itself, nor to have been aware of the extent of its borrowings from Marco Polo. M. Génin, from whose account Pauthier quotes, ascribes the poem to an early date after the death of Philip the Fair (1314). See _Pauthier_, pp. 57, 58, and 140. [15] See Polo, vol. i. p. 204, and vol. ii. p. 191. [16] See Polo, vol. i. p. 246. [17] See Polo, vol. ii. p. 339. [18] See Polo, vol. i. p. 140. _Hashishi_ has got altered into _Haus Assis_. [19] See vol. i. p. 358, note. [20] See vol. i. p. 189, note 2. [21] Vol. i. pp. 183–186. [22] Vol. i. pp. 68 _seqq._ The virtuous cobler is not left out, but is made to play second fiddle to the hero Bauduin. [23] Vol. i. p. 144.