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Title: An introduction to American history, European beginnings
Year: 1919 (1910s)
Authors: Atkinson, Alice M. (Alice Minerva), b. 1868
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Publisher: Boston, New York (etc.) Ginn and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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Marco Polo 224 INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN HISTORY At last the Polos, who had become very rich duringtheir stay in Cathay, began to long to see their Venetianhome again. It was with great difficulty, however, that
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The Return of the Polos they persuaded the unwilling Khan to let them go; butwhen finally he consented, he sent them away in royalfashion, providing them with ships and crews to carrythem and their treasures the whole distance from Cathay THE FIRST GREAT DISCOVERIES 225 around to Persia, where they were to leave the ships andmake the rest of the trip overland. It was a long journey,for more than two years had passed by the time theyreached Venice. Here, on account of their long absence, their curiouslyfashioned garments, and their sunburned, weather-beatenfaces, they had much difficulty in making themselvesknown to their friends, who could not believe that thesestrange-looking persons were the long-absent Polos. It wasonly after showing the heaps of rubies, sapphires, emeralds,and diamonds which they had brought from Cathay, sewedup for safety in the seams of their clothes, that the Vene-tians would believe the marvelous stories they told, andreceive them with the honors due the Polo

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