those five days march, you reach aprovince called Tebet, which has been sadly laid waste ;we will now say something of it. Note i.—We are on firm ground again, for Sindafu is certainly CllENG-TU fu,the capital of Sze-chwan. Probably the name used by Polo was Sindu-fu, as wefind Sindu in the G. T.… … A. The Great City. B. The Little City. C. The Imperial City. The modern French missions have a bishop in Cheng-tu fu, and the city has beenvisited of late years by Mr. T. T. Cooper, by Mr. A. Wylie, by Baron v. Richthofen, [Captain Gill, Mr. Baber, Mr. Hosie, and several othertravellers]. Mr. Wylie…
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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