his securities are the Nobles Pietro Morosini and MARCO PAULO
MILION." Under _Milion_ is written in an ancient hand "_mortuus_."
(See _Appendix C_, No. 4.)

[7] Humboldt tells this (_Examen_, II. 221), alleging _Jacopo d'Acqui_ as
authority; and Libri (_H. des Sciences Mathematiques_, II. 149),
quoting _Doglioni, Historia Veneziana_. But neither authority bears
out the citations. The story seems really to come from Amoretti's
commentary on the _Voyage du Cap. L. F. Maldonado_, Plaisance, 1812,
p. 67. Amoretti quotes as authority _Pignoria, Degli Dei Antichi_.

An odd revival of this old libel was mentioned to me recently by Mr.
George Moffatt. When he was at school it was common among the boys to
express incredulity by the phrase: "Oh, what a Marco Polo!"

[8] Thibault, according to Ducange, was in 1307 named Grand Master of the
Arblasteers of France; and Buchon says his portrait is at Versailles
among the Admirals (No. 1170). Ramon de Muntaner fell in with the
Seigneur de Cepoy in Greece, and speaks of him as "but a Captain of
the Wind, as his Master was King of the Wind." (See _Ducange, H. de
l'Empire de Const. sous les Emp. Francois_, Venice ed. 1729, pp. 109,
110; _Buchon, Chroniques Etrangeres_, pp. lv. 467-470.)

[9] The note is not found in the Bodleian MS., which is the third known
one of this precise type.

[10] Messire Jean, the son of Thibault, is mentioned in the accounts of
the latter in the _Chambre des Comptes_ at Paris, as having been with
his Father in Romania. And in 1344 he commanded a confederate
Christian armament sent to check the rising power of the Turks, and
beat a great Turkish fleet in the Greek seas. (_Heyd._ I. 377;
_Buchon_, 468.)

[11] The document is given in _Appendix C_, No. 5. It was found by Comm.
Barozzi, the Director of the Museo Civico, when he had most kindly
accompanied me to aid in the search for certain other documents in the
archives of the _Casa di Ricovero_, or Poor House of Venice. These
archives contain a great mass of testamentary and other documents,
which probably have come into that singular depository in connection
with bequests to public charities.

The document next mentioned was found in as strange a site, viz., the
_Casa degli Esposti_ or Foundling Hospital, which possesses similar
muniments. This also I owe to Comm. Barozzi, who