Marco Polo, Rustichello of Pisa - The Travels of Marco Polo, 1
PRESENTED THEMSELVES BEFORE THE GREAT KAAN.CHAPTER XV. HOW THE EMPEROR SENT MARK ON AN EMBASSY OF HIS.CHAPTER XVI. HOW MARK RETURNED FROM THE MISSION WHEREON HE HAD BEENSENT.CHAPTER XVII. HOW MESSER NICOLO, MESSER MAFFEO, AND MESSER MARCO, ASKEDLEAVE OF THE GREAT KAAN TO GO THEIR WAY.CHAPTER XVIII. HOW THE TWO BROTHERS AND MESSER MARCO TOOK LEAVE OF THEGREAT KAAN, AND RETURNED TO THEIR OWN COUNTRY.BOOK FIRST. ACCOUNT OF REGIONS VISITED OR HEARD OF ON THE JOURNEY FROM THELESSER ARMENIA TO THE COURT OF THE GREAT KAAN AT CHANDU.CHAPTER I. HERE THE BOOK BEGINS; AND FIRST IT SPEAKS OF THE LESSER HERMENIA.CHAPTER II. CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF TURCOMANIA.CHAPTER III. DESCRIPTION OF THE GREATER HERMENIA.CHAPTER IV. OF GEORGIANIA AND THE KINGS THEREOF.CHAPTER V. OF THE KINGDOM OF MAUSUL.CHAPTER VI. OF THE GREAT CITY OF BAUDAS, AND HOW IT WAS TAKEN.CHAPTER VII. HOW THE CALIF OF BAUDAS TOOK COUNSEL TO SLAY ALL THECHRISTIANS IN HIS LAND.CHAPTER VIII. HOW THE CHRISTIANS WERE IN GREAT DISMAY BECAUSE OF WHAT THECALIF HAD SAID.CHAPTER IX. HOW THE ONE-EYED COBLER WAS DESIRED TO PRAY FOR THECHRISTIANS.CHAPTER X. HOW THE PRAYER OF THE ONE-EYED COBLER CAUSED THE MOUNTAIN TOMOVE.CHAPTER XI. OF THE NOBLE CITY OF TAURIS.CHAPTER XII. OF THE MONASTERY OF ST. BARSAMO ON THE BORDERS OF TAURIS.CHAPTER XIII. OF THE GREAT COUNTRY OF PERSIA; WITH SOME ACCOUNT OF THETHREE KINGS.CHAPTER XIV. WHAT BEFELL WHEN THE THREE KINGS RETURNED TO THEIR OWNCOUNTRY.CHAPTER XV. OF THE EIGHT KINGDOMS OF PERSIA, AND HOW THEY ARE NAMED.CHAPTER XVI. CONCERNING THE GREAT CITY OF YASDI.CHAPTER XVII. CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KERMAN.CHAPTER XVIII. OF THE CITY OF CAMADI AND ITS RUINS; ALSO TOUCHING THECARAUNA ROBBERS.CHAPTER XIX. OF THE DESCENT TO THE CITY OF HORMOS.CHAPTER XX. OF THE WEARISOME AND DESERT ROAD THAT HAS NOW TO BETRAVELLED.CHAPTER XXI. CONCERNING THE CITY OF COBINAN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE MADETHERE.
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