Anything then remaining deficient of
his instalments should be made good by himself or his securities. And
his securities are the Nobles Pietro Morosini and MARCO PAULO
MILION." Under Milion is written in an ancient hand "mortuus."
(See Appendix C, No. 4.)
[7] Humboldt tells this (Examen, II. 221), alleging Jacopo d'Acqui as
authority; and Libri (H. des Sciences Mathematiques, II. 149),
quoting Doglioni, Historia Veneziana. But neither authority bears
out the citations. The story seems really to come from Amoretti's
commentary on the Voyage du Cap. L. F. Maldonado, Plaisance, 1812,
p. 67. Amoretti quotes as authority Pignoria, Degli Dei Antichi.
An odd revival of this old libel was mentioned to me recently by Mr.
George Moffatt. When he was at school it was common among the boys to
express incredulity by the phrase: "Oh, what a Marco Polo!"
[8] Thibault, according to Ducange, was in 1307 named Grand Master of the
Arblasteers of France; and Buchon says his portrait is at Versailles
among the Admirals (No. 1170). Ramon de Muntaner fell in with the
Seigneur de Cepoy in Greece, and speaks of him as "but a Captain of
the Wind, as his Master was King of the Wind." (See Ducange, H. de
l'Empire de Const. sous les Emp.
