NOTES.—1. _The Land of Darkness._ 2. _The Legend of the Mares and their Foals._ 3. _Dumb Trade with the People of the Darkness._ XXII.—DESCRIPTION OF ROSIA AND ITS PEOPLE. PROVINCE OF LAC 486 NOTES.—1. _Old Accounts of Russia. Russian Silver and Rubles._ 2. _Lac, or Wallachia._ 3. _Oroech, Norway (?) or the Waraeg Country (?)_ XXIII.—HE BEGINS TO SPEAK OF THE STRAITS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, BUT DECIDES TO LEAVE THAT MATTER 490 XXIV.—CONCERNING THE TARTARS OF THE PONENT AND THEIR LORDS 490 NOTES.—1. _The Comanians; the Alans; Majar; Zic; the Goths of the Crimea; Gazaria._ 2. _The Khans of Kipchak or the Golden Horde; errors in Polo’s list. Extent of their Empire._ XXV.—OF THE WAR THAT AROSE BETWEEN ALAU AND BARCA, AND THE BATTLES THAT THEY FOUGHT 494 (Extracts and Substance.) NOTES.—1. _Verbal._ 2. _The Sea of Sarai._ 3._ The War here spoken of. Wassáf’s rigmarole._ XXVI.—†HOW BARCA AND HIS ARMY ADVANCED TO MEET ALAU 495 XXVII.—†HOW ALAU ADDRESSED HIS FOLLOWERS 495 XXVIII.—†OF THE GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN ALAU AND BARCA 496 XXIX.—HOW TOTAMANGU WAS LORD OF THE TARTARS OF THE PONENT; AND AFTER HIM TOCTAI 496 NOTE.—_Confusions in the Text. Historical circumstances connected with the Persons spoken of. Toctai and Noghai Khan. Symbolic Messages._ XXX.—†OF THE SECOND MESSAGE THAT TOCTAI SENT TO NOGAI 498 XXXI.—†HOW TOCTAI MARCHED AGAINST NOGAI 499 XXXII.—†HOW TOCTAI AND NOGAI ADDRESS THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE NEXT DAY JOIN BATTLE 499 XXXIII.—†THE VALIANT FEATS AND VICTORY OF KING NOGAI 499 XXXIV.—AND LAST. CONCLUSION 500 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- † Of chapters so marked nothing is given but the substance in brief. APPENDICES. A. Genealogy of the House of Chinghiz to the End of the Thirteenth Century 505 B. The Polo Families:— (I.) Genealogy of the Family of Marco Polo the Traveller 506 (II.) The Polos of San Geremia 507 C. Calendar of Documents relating to Marco Polo and his Family 510 D. Comparative Specimens of the Different Recensions of Polo’s Text 522 E. Preface to Pipino’s Latin Version 525