im, by discovering that part of the world which eminent men
had heretofore judged to be uninhabited." (_Venezia ... Descritta_,
etc., f. 23 _v._) Marco Barbaro attests the same inscription in his
Genealogies (copy in Museo Civico at Venice).

[25] _Cicogna_, II. 385.

[26] _Lazari_, xxxi.

[27] In the first edition I noticed briefly a statement that had reached
me from China that, in the Temple at Canton vulgarly called "of the
500 gods," there is a foreign figure which from the name attached had
been supposed to represent Marco Polo! From what I have heard from Mr.
Wylie, a very competent authority, this is nonsense. The temple
contains 500 figures of _Arhans_ or Buddhist saints, and one of these
attracts attention from having a hat like a sailor's straw hat. Mr.
Wylie had not remarked the name. [A model of this figure was exhibited
at Venice at the international Geographical Congress, in 1881. I give
a reproduction of this figure and of the Temple of 500 Genii (_Fa Lum
Sze_) at Canton, from drawings by Felix Regamey made after photographs
sent to me by my late friend, M. Camille Imbault Huart, French Consul
at Canton.--H. C.]

[28] These documents are noted in Appendix C, Nos. 9-12, 14, 17, 18.

[29] I can find no _Ranuzzo_ Dolfino among the Venetian genealogies, but
several _Reniers_. And I suspect Ranuzzo may be a form of the latter
name.

[30] _Cappellari_ (see p. 77, footnote) under _Bragadino_.

[31] Ibid. and _Gallicciolli_, II. 146.

[32] The _lire_ of the fine are not specified; but probably _ai grossi_,
which would be = 37_l._ 10_s._; not, we hope, _dei_ grossi!

[33] Yet, if the family were so wealthy as tradition represents, it is
strange that Marco's brother Maffeo, _after_ receiving a share of his
father's property, should have possessed barely 10,000 _lire_,
probably equivalent to 5000 ducats at most. (See p. 65, supra.)

[34] An Agnes Loredano, Abbess of S. Maria delle Vergini, died in 1397.
(_Cicogna_, V. 91 and 629.) The interval of 61 years makes it somewhat
improbable that it should be the same.

[35] In the _Museo Civico_ (No. 2271 of the Cicogna collection) there is a
commission addressed by the Doge Michiel Steno in 1408, "_Nobili Viro
Marcho Paulo_," nominating him Podesta of Arostica (a Castello of the
Vicentino). This is probably the same Marco.

[36] The descent runs: (1) Azzo