The book of Ser Marco Polo, the Venetian : concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East (1871)
Polo, Marco, 1254-1323, Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 · London : John Murray · leaf 356
r an aj)e of some kind, is common in old Italian, thelatter jiart of the term, from the Pers. Maimitn, being jio-ssibly connectedwith our Baboon. And that the Gatf>aul was also some kind of ajje isconfirmed by the Spanish Dictionaries. Cobarrubias gives : Gate fans,a kind of tailed monkey. Goto… … 320 MARCO POLO. H<iOK III. iomp. por la Real Acadcmia (i783) gives : Gato Paul, a kind of monkeyof a grey colour, black muzzle and very broad tail. In fact, the wordis used by Columbus, who, in his own account of his third voyage, de-scribes a hill on the coast of Paria as covered with a species…
Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 · Polo family · Voyages and travels · Mongols · Early maps · Inscriptions, Chinese
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