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Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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eturned from the Mission whereon he had BEEN SENT. When Mark returned from his ambassage he presentedhimself before the Emperor, and after making his reportof the business with which he was charged, and itssuccessful accomplishment, he went on to give anaccount in a pleasant and intelligent manner of all thenovelties and strange things that he had seen andheard; insomuch that the Emperor and all such asheard his story were surprised, and said: If thisyoung man live, he will assuredly come to be a personof great worth and ability. And so from that timeforward he was always entitled Messer Marco Polo,and thus we shall style him henceforth in this Book ofours, as is but right. Thereafter Messer Marco abode in the Kaans employ-ment some seventeen years, continually going and coming,hither and thither, on the missions that were entrustedto him by the Lord (and sometimes, with the permissionand authority of the Great Kaan, on his own privateaffairs.) And, as he knew all the sovereigns ways,
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■*, * X Chap. XVII. MARCO GROWS IN FAVOUR 31 like a sensible man he always took much pains togather knowledge of anything that would be likely tointerest him, and then on his return to Court he wouldrelate everything in regular order, and thus the Emperorcame to hold him in great love and favour. And forthis reason also he would employ him the oftener onthe most weighty and most distant of his missions.These Messer Marco ever carried out with discretionand success, God be thanked. So the Emperor becameever more partial to him, and treated him with thegreater distinction, and kept him so close to his personthat some of the Barons wTaxed very envious thereat.And thus it came about that Messer Marco Polo hadknowledge of, or had actually visited, a greater numberof the different countries of the World than any otherman ; the more that he was always giving his mind toget knowledge, and to spy out and enquire into every-thing in order to have matter to relate to the Lord. CHAPTER XVII. Ho

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