. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . Sir Henry Yule atVenice. Since the last edition was published, more thantwenty-five years ago, Persia has been more thoroughlystudied ; new routes have been explored in CentralAsia, Karakorum has been fully described, and Westernand South-Western China have been opened up to ourknowledge in many directions. The results of theseinvestigations form the main features of this new editionof Marco Polo. I have suppressed hardly any of Sir X PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION Henry Yules notes and altered but few, doi
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . Sir Henry Yule atVenice. Since the last edition was published, more thantwenty-five years ago, Persia has been more thoroughlystudied ; new routes have been explored in CentralAsia, Karakorum has been fully described, and Westernand South-Western China have been opened up to ourknowledge in many directions. The results of theseinvestigations form the main features of this new editionof Marco Polo. I have suppressed hardly any of Sir X PREFACE TO THIRD EDITION Henry Yules notes and altered but few, doing so onlywhen the light of recent information has proved him tobe in error, but I have supplemented them by what, Ihope, will be found useful, new information.* Before I take leave of the kind reader, I wish tothank sincerely Mr. John Murray for the courtesy andthe care he has displayed while this edition was goingthrough the press. HENRI CORDIER. Paris, ist of October, 1902. * Paragraphs which have been altered are marked thus+ ; my own additions areplaced between brackets [ ].—H. •\iloln strike iiour <S;ulcs iiec jolly JftgrxttOtt,&st iuc be come into ;t quiet 2Aooc .... —The Faerie Queene, I. xii. 42. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION. The unexpected amount of favour bestowed on theformer edition of this Work has been a great en-couragement to the Editor in preparing this second one. Not a few of the kind friends and correspondentswho lent their aid before have continued it to thepresent revision. The contributions of Mr. A. Wylieof Shang-hai, whether as regards the amount of labourwhich they must have cost him, or the value of theresult, demand above all others a grateful record can I omit to name again with hearty acknowledg-ment Signor Comm. G. Berchet of Venice, theRev. Dr. Caldwell, Colonel (now Major-General)R. Maclagan, , Mr. D. Hanbury, , Thomas, (Corresponding Member ofthe Institute), and Mr. R. H. Major. But besides these o
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