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xxviii du Voyage en Orient de Guillaume de Rubruk”, in vol. iv of the publications of the Geographical Society of Paris, “Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires”, pp. 205-296.

Here, and to both the foregoing journeys, belongs the following—

Both Forster, “Gesch. d. Entdeck”, p. 127-146, and Sprengel, “Gesch. d. Entdeck”, p. 288-299, have supplied explanatory and very learned remarks upon the travels of Rubruquis.

Marco Polo, on whom Malte Brun has bestowed the inappropriate appellation of the “créateur de la géographie moderne, l’Humboldt du treizième siècle,” was descended from a noble family of Venice. His father Niccolò Polo, and his uncle Matteo Polo,