te the Travels in the New Wor^l, and who was the firstbefore Christopher Columbus to discover new countries. No faith was put in himbecause of the extravagant things that he recounted ; but in the days of our FathersColumbus augmented belief in him, by discovering that part of the world… … ^N * LAST NOTICES OF THE FAMILY 75 There is no portrait of Marco Polo in existence with any claimto authenticity. The quaint figure which we give in the Biblio-graphy, vol. ii. p. 555, extracted from the earliest printed editionof his book, can certainly make no such pretension. The oldestone after…
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? · Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Inscriptions, Chinese · Early maps · Mongols · Voyages and travels
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