The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa;Marco Polo
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NOTES.--1. Zangibar; Negroes. 2. Ethiopian Sheep. 3. Giraffes. 4. Ivory trade. 5. Error about Elephant-taming. 6. Number of Islands assigned to the Indian Sea. 7. The Three Indies, and various distributions thereof. Polo's Indian Geography. XXXV.--TREATING OF THE GREAT PROVINCE OF ABASH, WHICH IS MIDDLE INDIA, AND IS ON THE MAINLAND NOTES.--1. Habash or Abyssinia. Application of the name India to it. 2. Fire Baptism ascribed to the Abyssinian Christians. 3. Polo's idea of the position of Aden. 4. Taming of the African Elephant for War. 5. Marco's Story of the Abyssinian Invasion of the Mahomedan Low-Country, and Review of Abyssinian Chronology in connection therewith. 6. Textual. XXXVI.--CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ADEN NOTES.--1. The Trade to Alexandria from India viâ Aden. 2. "_Roncins à deux selles_." 3. The Sultan of Aden. The City and its Great Tanks. 4. The Loss of Acre. XXXVII.--CONCERNING THE CITY OF ESHER NOTES.--1. Shihr. 2. Frankincense. 3. Four-horned Sheep. 4. Cattle fed on Fish. 5. Parallel passage. XXXVIII.--CONCERNING THE CITY OF DUFAR NOTES.--1. Dhofar. 2. Notes on Frankincense. |
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