ce_ named in the Annals; but there is no irrefragable evidence;
and in any case it is only this once, and not as Pauthier has it."

Cf. also note by Prof. E.H. Parker, _China Review_, XXV. pp. 193-4, and,
according to Prof. Pelliot (_Bul. Ecole franc. Ext. Orient_, July-Sept.,
1904, p. 769), the biography of Han Lin-eul in the _Ming shi_, k. 122, p.
3.

Prof. Pelliot writes to me: "Il faut renoncer une bonne fois a retrouver
Marco Polo dans le Po-lo mele a l'affaire d'Ahmed. Grace aux titulations
successives, nous pouvons reconstituer la carriere administrative de ce
Po-lo, au moins depuis 1271, c'est-a-dire depuis une date anterieure a
l'arrivee de Marco Polo a la cour mongole. D'autre part, Rashid-ud-Din
mentionne le role joue dans l'affaire d'Ahmed par le Pulad-aqa,
c'est-a-dire Pulad Chinsang, son informateur dans les choses mongoles, mais
la forme mongole de ce nom de _Pulad_ est _Bolod_, en transcription
chinoise _Po-lo_. J'ai signale (_T'oung Pao_, 1914, p. 640) que des textes
chinois mentionnent effectivement que Po-lo (Bolod), envoye en mission
aupres d'Arghun en 1285, resta ensuite en Perse. C'est donc en definitive
le Pulad (= Bolod) de Rashid-ud-Din qui serait le Po-lo qu'a la suite de
Pauthier on a trop longtemps identifie a Marco Polo."

Introduction, p. 23.

"The _Yuean Shi_ contains curious confirmation of the facts which led up to
Marco Polo's conducting a wife to Arghun of Persia, who lost his spouse in
1286. In the eleventh moon of that year (say January, 1287) the following
laconic announcement appears: 'T'a-ch'a-r Hu-nan ordered to go on a
mission to A-r-hun.' It is possible that Tachar and Hunan may be two
individuals, and, though they probably started overland, it is probable
that they were in some way connected with Polo's first and unsuccessful
attempt to take the girl to Persia." (E.H. PARKER, _Asiatic Quart. Rev._,
Jan., 1904, p. 136.)

Introduction, p. 76 _n._

With regard to the statue of the Pseudo-Marco Polo of Canton, Dr. B.
Laufer, of Chicago, sends me the following valuable note:--

THE ALLEGED MARCO POLO LO-HAN OF CANTON.

The temple _Hua lin se_ (in Cantonese _Fa lum se_, i.e. Temple of the
Flowery Grove) is situated in the western suburbs of the city of Canton.
Its principal attraction is the vast hall, the Lo-han t'ang, in which are
arranged in numerous avenues some five hundred richly gilded images, about
three feet in height, representing the 500 Lo-han (Arhat). The workma