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The towns of Cascar (Kashghar) and Carchan
(Yarkand) are omitted on the glohe, but the following
legend referring to the inhabitants has found a place there
(M. Polo I 40) :—

hie teone lent di haben groff fuff Here live people who have big
(I 51). (swollen) feet.

Koan and kotan fl. (H 32), mod. Khotan. M. Polo
does not mention a river.

pagu (J 45) which Pipino (I 42) calls more correctly
peyn, has recently been identified by Dr. Stein at Ulum
Tali, between Khotan and Kiria.

lop (H 41), a station near Lobnor.

The following legends refer to the great desert of Gobi
(M. Polo I 44) :—

dife waltung grenzt an da/ tramo- This forest (desert) borders upon

tana und ift breit etli tagreif und the tramontana and is several days

360 tagreif lang (H 56). across and 360 days' journey in

length.

Jom and Ghil have " wildnus" (desert) instead of
" waltung."

Marco polo vo venedig jm er/ten Marco Polo in the 44th chapter

pitch in d'e XLIIII. capitel fagt daf of his first book (Pipino's version)

di/e welter man in einen ganzen Jar tells us that these forests cannot be

von orient bis an occidento keinen traversed from east to west in a

mag durch zihen wan Ji hebt fich an year, for they begin at Novgorod in

in reuffen negarten und weit bis in Russia and extend far towards

one gen cathai (H 58). Cathai.

The extent of this desert is much exaggerated by
M. Polo as a glance at a map shows. He does not speak
of forests or woods, but of a wildness or desert.

Tartary.

The name Tartaria is inserted no less than eleven
times between the River Don and the extreme eaot of
Asia (F—K, between 42 and 56).

dig ift das lant das d'e grofen This is the country which belonged
tamerlan hat zugehert ein herr in to the great Tamerlan, Lord of
tataria (G 56). Tartary.

Timur Lenk, popularly known as Tamerlan, made himself
master of Transoxiana, in 1369, choosing Samarkand
as his capital. At his death, in 1405, his empire extended
from the Black Sea and the Mediterranean, far into Asia.

tangut das konikreich in tartaria (J 56), Tangut a
kingdom in Tartary.

tangut regio (I 41), tanguth (J 50).

daf grof gebirg deflandes tangu (K 54), the big mountains
of the country of Tangut.

Tangut is the Tartar name of the Chinese territory of
Si-Hia, or " Western " Hia, which included part of Shensi,
Ortu, Sha-cheu, Kukunor and the region towards the Lob
nor. Jinghiz Khan, in 1226, destroyed this empire
(Marco Polo, I 45).

There are miniatures of a royal tent, of two camels,
and of two bears kissing each other.

tangut und camul do u '. y in konik In Tangut and Kamul no king
juncfraue zu ehe haben " o pringen will take virgins in marriage. The
dj mutter jhre tochter Ji fremden mothers there offer their daughters
kaufleuth zu welche mer man verfuhrt to the foreign merchants, and she
hot dj heltmanfur diefiinemft tug end among them who has seduced most
(I 50).

men is looked upon as the mast
virtuous.

Marco Polo refers to this custom in connection with
Kamul (Pipino's version I 46), a town of Tangut, Tibet,
(II 36) and Kaindu (II 37;.

sakion (J 41), mod. Sha-chau (M. Polo I 45).

kamul (J 49), mod. Hami (M. Polo I 46).

succuf, succus (J 47), M. Polo I 48: Succuir, mod.
Suh-chau.

heir wechjl reobarbara gar vil. Here grows very much rhubarb.

kampion (J 47), the capital of Tangut, mod. Kanchau
(M. Polo I 49).

ezina (J 50), a town on the river Ezina or Heishui, to
the east of Suhchau (M. Polo I 50).

Egrimul, egrimul das konikreich (J 48), or, more
correctly, Ergimul (M. Polo I 63), a kingdom in Tangut,
indentified with mod. Liang-cheu, at the great wall.

singui, singrai (J 49), M. Polo I 63; mod. Si-ning, in
western Kansu.

egrigaia (J 53), a district, M. Polo 1 64, mod.
Ning-hia.

calacia (J 52), a town in Egrigaia, at the foot of the
Ala-shan.

karakorum (I 42), up to 1260 the capital of the Empire
founded by Jinghiz Khan, and again of the Mongul
dynasty expelled from China in 1368. Its ruins on the
Orkhon were identified by Paderin in 1872 (M. Polo
I 51).

bergi ein konikreich (K 53), bergi (K 50), with a royal
tent.

daf grof gebirg bergi (K 59), the " big mountains of
Bergi." M. Polo (Pipino's version I 62) wrote Bergi, but
other versions call this region Bargu. It was named after
the Barkut, a clan of Mongols, which lived on the Selenga
and to the east of Lake Baikal. M. Polo calls this country
a " plain sixty days in extent," and does not mention
mountains, the existence of which may have suggested
itself to the compiler of the globe by the name Bergi.

Of a legend to the north the first two words only—in
di/en (in these)—are now legible.

On the Paris facsimile the names of Lena, Kolyma
and Amur are given to three rivers flowing to the north.
These names o .ve their existence to the want of intelligence
of the copyist

jn difem kreis di/er wiltniff fengt Within these barren grounds are
man dj hernpelz laffiz zobel und caught ermines, weasels, sables and
mader und ander keftli'-h fehwerk martens and other valuable peltry,
auch falken und feesalken da ift es fo also hawks and inerfulcons. It is

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