Yule's "The Book of Marco Polo published in 1871 labeled this: Garden House on Lake Yun-nam-fu, Yachi of Polo (from Garnier).


This illustration in Sir Henry Yule's "The Book of Marco Polo published in 1871 is labeled: Garden House on Lake Yun-nam-fu, Yachi of Polo (from Garnier). The lake (pictured here) that Polo mentions as being in the area he called Yachi is mostly likely T ien-chi, the great lake on the shore of which stands the city of Yun-nan in southern China.


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