[12] For example, _Delli_, which Polo does not name; _Diogil_ (Deogír); on the Coromandel coast _Setemelti_, which I take to be a clerical error for _Sette-Templi_, 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 from Perso-Mongol sources. [13] I see it stated by competent authority that _Romman_ is often applied to any prose composition in a Romance language. In or about 1426, Prince Pedro of Portugal, the elder brother of the illustrious Prince Henry, being on a visit to Venice, was presented by the Signory with a copy of Marco Polo’s book, together with a map already alluded to. (_Major’s P. Henry_, pp. 61, 62.) [14] This is partly due also to Fra Mauro’s reversion to the fancy of the circular disk limiting the inhabited portion of the earth. [15] An early graphic instance of this is Ruysch’s famous map (1508). The following extract of a work printed as late as 1533 is an example of the like confusion in verbal description: “The Territories which are beyond the limits of Ptolemy’s Tables have not yet been described on certain authority. Behind the Sinae and the Seres, and beyond 180° of East Longitude, many countries were discovered by one [_quendam_] Marco Polo a Venetian and others, and the sea-coasts of those countries have now recently again been explored by Columbus the Genoese and Amerigo Vespucci in navigating the Western Ocean.... To this part (of Asia) belong the territory called that of the _Bachalaos_ [or Codfish, Newfoundland], _Florida_, _the Desert of Lop_, _Tangut_, _Cathay_, the realm of _Mexico_ (wherein is the vast city of _Temistitan_, built in the middle of a great lake, but which the older travellers styled QUINSAY), besides _Paria_, _Uraba_, and the countries of the _Canibals_.” (_Joannis Schoneri Carolostadtii Opusculum Geogr._, quoted by Humboldt, _Examen_, V. 171, 172.) [16] In Robert Parke’s Dedication of his Translation of Mendoza’s, London, 1st of January, 1589, he identifies China and Japan with the regions of which _Paulus Venetus_ and _Sir John Mandeuill_ “wrote long agoe.”—_MS. Note by Yule_. [17] “_Totius Europae et Asiae Tabula Geographica, Auctore Thoma D. Aucupario. Edita Argentorati_, MDXXII.” Copied in Witsen.