Marcos contemporaries Rashiduddin and Abulfeda. Yet I think, if we readbetween the lines, we shall see reason to believe that the Wall was inPolos mind at this point of the dictation, whatever may have been his motive forwithholding distincter notice of it.* I cannot conceive why he should say :… … O to bfloO H 294 MARCO POLO Book I. beside the Great Wall known as ihe Rampart of Gog and Magog, and being therehe tries to find a reason why those names should have been applied to it. Why theywere really applied to it we have already seen. {Supra, ch. iv. note 3.) Abulfedasays: The Ocean turns…
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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