The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa;Marco Polo
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NOTES.--1. Remarks on these supplementary details. 2. Tides in the
Hang-chau Estuary. 3. Want of a good Survey of Hang-chau. The Squares. 4. Marco ignores pork. 5. Great Pears: Peaches. 6. Textual. 7. Chinese use of Pepper. 8. Chinese claims to a character for Good Faith. 9. Pleasure-parties on the Lake. 10. Chinese Carriages. 11. The Sung Emperor. 12. The Sung Palace. Extracts regarding this Great City from other mediaeval writers, European and Asiatic. Martini's Description. LXXVIII.--TREATING OF THE YEARLY REVENUE THAT THE GREAT KAAN HATH FROM KINSAY NOTES.--1. Textual. 2. Calculations as to the values spoken of. LXXIX.--OF THE CITY OF TANPIJU AND OTHERS NOTES.--1. Route from Hang-chau southward. 2. Bamboos. 3. Identification of places. Chang-shan the key to the route. LXXX.--CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF FUJU NOTES.--1. "Fruit like Saffron." 2. 3. Cannibalism ascribed to Mountain Tribes on this route. 4 Kien-ning fu. 5. Galingale. 6. Fleecy Fowls. 7. Details of the Journey in Fo-kien and various readings. 8. Unken. Introduction of Sugar-refining into China. LXXXI.--CONCERNING THE GREATNESS OF THE CITY OF FUJU NOTES.--1. The name _Chonka_, applied to Fo-kien here. _Cayton_ or _Zayton_. 2. Objections that have been made to identity of _Fuju_ and Fu-chau. 3. The Min River. |
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