The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2 by Rustichello of Pisa;Marco Polo
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XXII.--DESCRIPTION OF ROSIA AND ITS PEOPLE. PROVINCE OF LAC NOTES.--1. Old Accounts of Russia. Russian Silver and Rubles. 2. Lac, or Wallachia. 3. Oroech, Norway (?) or the Waraeg Country (?) XXIII.--HE BEGINS TO SPEAK OF THE STRAITS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, BUT DECIDES TO LEAVE THAT MATTER XXIV.--CONCERNING THE TARTARS OF THE PONENT AND THEIR LORDS NOTES.--1. The Comanians; the Alans; Majar; Zic; the Goths of the Crimea; Gazaria. 2. The Khans of Kipchak or the Golden Horde; errors in Polo's list. Extent of their Empire. XXV.--OF THE WAR THAT AROSE BETWEEN ALAU AND BARCA, AND THE BATTLES THAT THEY FOUGHT (Extracts and Substance.) NOTES.--1. Verbal. 2. The Sea of Sarai. 3. The War here spoken of. Wassáf's rigmarole. XXVI.--[1]HOW BARCA AND HIS ARMY ADVANCED TO MEET ALAU XXVII.--[1]HOW ALAU ADDRESSED HIS FOLLOWERS XXVIII.--[1]OF THE GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN ALAU AND BARCA XXIX.--HOW TOTAMANGU WAS LORD OF THE TARTARS OF THE PONENT; AND AFTER HIM TOCTAI |
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