Indian geography;
his unequalled travels;
Venetian documents about him.
---- Marco, called Marcolino, son of Nicolo the Younger.
---- Marco, last male survivor.
---- Marco, others of this name.
---- Maroca, sister of Nicolo the Younger.
---- or Delfino, Moreta, youngest daughter.
Polo, Nicolo and Maffeo, sons of Andrea,
their first journey;
cross Black Sea to Soldaia;
visit Volga country, etc.;
go to Bokhara;
join envoys to Khan's Court;
Kublai's reception of;
sent back as envoys to Pope;
receive a Golden Tablet;
reach Ayas;
Acre;
Venice;
find young Marco there
---- Nicolo, Maffeo and Marco, proceed to Acre;
set out for East, recalled from Ayas;
set out again with Pope's letters, etc.;
reach Kublai's Court;
are welcomed;
_see_ on their journey outward;
their alleged service in capture of Siang-yang;
Khan refuses them permission to return home;
allowed to go with ambassadors;
receive Golden Tablets;
on return;
story of their arrival at Venice;
scheme to assert their identity.
---- Nicolo, his alleged second marriage and sons;
probable truth as to time of;
his illegitimate sons;
approximate time of his death;
his tomb.
---- Nicolo the Younger, cousin of traveller.
---- Stefano and Giovannino, illegitimate brothers of Traveller.
---- (?), or Trevisano (?), Fiordelisa, perhaps second wife of Nicolo Polo
the Elder, and mother of Maffeo the Younger.
---- or Trevisano, Maria, last survivor of the family,
doubts as to her kindred.
---- Family, its duration and end, according to Ramusio,
origin;
last notices of.
(For relationship of different Polos, _see_ table).
---- Family, branch of S. Geremia.
_Po-lut_ (Pa-lut), _incense_.
Polygamy,
supposed effect on population.
_Pomilo_ (Pamir).
_Pompholyx_.
Ponent, or West, term applied by Polo to Kipchak, the Mongol Khanate of
the Volga, _see_ Kipchak.
Pong (Mediaeval Shan State).
Poods, Russian.
Popinjays.
Population, vast, of Cathay.
Porcelain manufacture,
fragments found at Kayal;
Chinese.
---- shells, _see_ Cowries.
Porcupines.
Pork, mention of, omitted.
_Postin_, sheep-skin coat.
Posts, post-houses and runners,
in Siberia.
Po-sz' (Persia).
Potala at L'hasa.
Pottinger.
Poultry, kind of, in Coilum,
in Abyssinia (guinea-fowl?).
Pound, sterling.
_Pourpre_, or _Purpura_.
P'o-yang Lake.
Pozdneiev, Professor.
Precious stones or gems,
how discovered by pirates.