NOTES.—1. _Names of the deceased Pope and of the Legate._ 2. _Negropont._ 3. _Mark’s age._ X.—HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AGAIN DEPARTED FROM VENICE, ON THEIR WAY BACK TO THE GREAT KAAN, AND TOOK WITH THEM MARK, THE SON OF MESSER NICOLO 19 NOTE.—_Oil from the Holy Sepulchre._ XI.—HOW THE TWO BROTHERS SET OUT FROM ACRE, AND MARK ALONG WITH THEM 20 NOTE.—_Pope Gregory X. and his Election._ XII.—HOW THE TWO BROTHERS PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE NEW POPE 22 NOTES.—1. _William of Tripoli._ 2. _Powers conceded to Missionary Friars._ 3. _Bundúḳdár and his Invasion of Armenia; his character._ 4. _The Templars in Cilician Armenia._ XIII.—HOW MESSER NICOLO AND MESSER MAFFEO POLO, ACCOMPANIED BY MARK, TRAVELLED TO THE COURT OF THE GREAT KAAN 25 NOTE.—_The City of Kemenfu, Summer Residence of Kúblái._ XIV.—HOW MESSER NICOLO AND MESSER MAFFEO POLO AND MARCO PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE GREAT KAAN 26 NOTES.—1. _Verbal._ 2. “_Vostre Homme._” XV.—HOW THE LORD SENT MARK ON AN EMBASSY OF HIS 27 NOTES.—1. _The four Characters learned by Marco, what?_ 2. _Ramusio’s addition._ 3. _Nature of Marco’s employment._ XVI.—HOW MARK RETURNED FROM THE MISSION WHEREON HE HAD BEEN SENT 30 XVII.—HOW MESSER NICOLO, MESSER MAFFEO, AND MESSER MARCO, ASKED LEAVE OF THE GREAT KAAN TO GO THEIR WAY 31 NOTES.—1. _Risks to Foreigners on a change of Sovereign._ 2. _The Lady Bolgana._ 3. _Passage from Ramusio._ XVIII.—HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AND MESSER MARCO TOOK LEAVE OF THE GREAT KAAN, AND RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY 34 NOTES.—1. _Mongol Royal Messengers._ 2. _Mongol communication with the King of England._ 3. _Mediæval Ships of China._ 4. _Passage from China to Sumatra._ 5. _Mortality among the party._ 6. _The Lady Cocachin in Persian History._ 7. _Death of the Kaan._ 8. _The Princess of Manzi._ BOOK FIRST. _Account of Regions Visited or heard of on the Journey from the Lesser Armenia to the Court of the Great Kaan at Chandu._ CHAP. PAGE I.—HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA 41 NOTES.—1. _Little Armenia._ 2. _Meaning of_ Chasteaux. 3. _Sickliness of Cilician Coast._ 4. _The phrase |“fra terre.”|_