HOW TOCTAI MARCHED AGAINST NOGAI.
<+>(The usual description of their advance to meet one another. Toctai is
joined by the two sons of Totamangu with a goodly company. They encamp
within ten miles of each other in the Plain of NERGHI.)
CHAPTER XXXII.
HOW TOCTAI AND NOGAI ADDRESS THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE NEXT DAY JOIN BATTLE.
<+>(The whole of this is in the usual formula without any circumstances
worth transcribing. The forces of Nogai though inferior in numbers are the
better men-at-arms. King Toctai shows great valour.)
CHAPTER XXXIII.
THE VALIANT FEATS AND VICTORY OF KING NOGAI.
<+>(The deeds of Nogai surpass all; the enemy scatter like a flock, and
are pursued, losing 60,000 men, but Toctai escapes, and so do the two sons
of Totamangu.)
CHAPTER XXXIV. AND LAST
CONCLUSION.[1]
And now ye have heard all that we can tell you about the Tartars and the
Saracens and their customs, and likewise about the other countries of the
world as far as our researches and information extend. Only we have said
nothing whatever about the GREATER SEA and the provinces that lie round
it, although we know it thoroughly. But it seems to me a needless and
useless task to speak about places which are visited by people every day.
For there are so many who sail all about that sea constantly, Venetians,
and Genoese, and Pisans, and many others, that everybody knows all about
it, and that is the reason that I pass it over and say nothing of it.
Of the manner in which we took our departure from the Court of the Great
Kaan you have heard at the beginning of the Book, in that chapter where we
told you of all the vexation and trouble that Messer Maffeo and Messer
Nicolo and Messer Marco had about getting the Great Kaan's leave to go;
and in the same chapter is related the lucky chance that led to our
departure. And you may be sure that but for that lucky chance, we should
never have got away in spite of all our trouble, and never have got back
to our country again. But I believe it was God's pleasure that we should
get back in order that people might learn about the things that the world
contains. For according to what has been said in the introduction at the
beginning of the Book, there never was a man, be he Christian or Saracen
or Tartar or Heathen, who ever travelled over so much of the world as did
that noble and illustrious citizen of the City of Venice, Messer Marco the
son of Messer Nicolo Polo.
Thanks be to God! Amen! Amen!
[1] This conclusion is not found in any copy except in the Crusca Italian,
and, with a little modification, in another at Florence, belonging to
the Pucci family. It is just possible that it was the embellishment of
a transcriber or translator; but in any case it is very old, and
serves as an epilogue.
[Illustration: Asiatic Warriors of Polo's Age. (From a contemporary
Persian Miniature.)]
APPENDICES
APPENDIX A. - Geneaology of the House of Chinghiz, to end of Thirteenth
Century.
Supreme [KAANS] in large capitals. KHANS of KIPCHAK, CHAGATAI, and PERSIA
in small capitals. Numerals indicate order of succession. For other sons
of Kublai, see Book II., chapter ix.
Those who are mentioned by Marco Polo have a line under their names.
Seniority runs from right to left.
Vesugai
|
| |
Uchegin or [I.CHINGIZ KAAN]
Pilgutai |
| |
| | | | |
Jintu TULI [II. OKKODAI KAAN] | |
| | | | |
| | | | |
| | | | | | | |
Tagajar Arikbuga I. HULAKU [V.KUBLAI [IV.MANGKU | | |
| | KAAN] KAAN] | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | | | |
Agul 3.TIGUDAR Tara- 2.ABAKA Chingkim | | |
| AHMAD kai | | | | |
| | | | | | | | |
| | | [VI.TEMUR KAAN] | Kanbala | | |
| | | | | | |
Nayan 6.BAIDU | | Tarmabala | | |
5.KAI- 4.ARGHUN | | |
KHATU | | | |
| | | |
| | | | |
8. OLJAITU 7.GHAZAN | | |
[Khans of PERSIA] | | |
| | |
| | |
| | | | |
Shiregi Kashin [III. KUYUKKAAN] | |
| | |
Kaidu | |
| | |
Chapar | |
or | |
Shabar | |
| |
| |
| |
CHAGATAI |
| |
| | | | | | |
Kadami Sarban Paidar 2.YESSU- Muwatukan Juji |
| | | MANGKU, | | |
| | | followed by | | |
| | | Kara-Hulaku's | | |
| | | widow, 3. ARGUNA. | | |
| | | | | |
| | | | | | |
8. TUKA 7. NIK- ALGHUL Yesan- I. KAKA- Nigudar- |
(or BUKA) PAL Tewa. HULAKU. Aghul |
TEMUR | | |
6.BORRAK. 5.MUBARIK |
| SHAH |
| |
9. TEWA or |
DUA |
|
[Khans of ULUS CHAGATAI] |
|
| | | |
Tewal Shaiban 4. BARKA 7. BATU
| | |
| | |
Tatar Kaunchi | | |
| 3.ULAGHJI Toghan 2. SARTAK
| |
| | | |
Noghai 6. TUDAI- 5. MANGKU Bartu
MANGKU TEMUR |
| |
| |
| | |
8.TOKTAI Abaji 7. TULABUGA.
[Khans of KIPCHAK or ULUS JUJI]
APPENDIX B. - The Polo Families.
(I.) GENEALOGY OF THE FAMILY OF MARCO POLO THE TRAVELLER.
/- Maffeo, /- Giovannino Seniority runs from
| make will in | (Illeg.) [bottom] to [top].
| Feb. 1309; | alive in 1321.
| was dead |
| before 1318. +- Stefano
| | (Illeg.)
| | alive in 1321.
| |
| | Catarina,
| | d. of Nic. /- Fiordelisa.
| | Sagredo. |
| | || - - - |
| +- Maffeo \- Pasqua.
| 2. (Mother | made a will, (Illeg.)
| of Maffeo. | 1300.
| Fiordelisa |
| Trevisan?) |
| || | Renuzzo Delfio
+- Nicolo, - - - -+ ||
| of S. Giov. | /- Moreta,
| Grisostomo | | married
| married twice, \- MARCO, | after 1324;
| d. before 1300. of S. Giov. | alive in
| || Grisostomo, | 1336.
| 1. (Marco's 1254-1324. |
A | Mother, || - - - - -+- Bellella,
n | Name unknown.) Donata - (?) | married to -
d | died after | before 1324;
r | 1333 and | died before 1333.
e | before 1336. |
a | \- Fantina,
| married
P | before 1324;
o | alive in 1379.
l | || - - - - - Pietro Bragadin
o | Marco Bragadin of S. Giov.
, | of S. Geminiano Grisostomo,
+ was alive in
o | 1388.
f | /- Maroca. /- Agnesina
| | |
S. \- Marco, - +- Nicolo. - - Marco, - - -+
made will, | known as |
F 1280 | Marcolino \- Matteo,
e | (1328) of married Caterina,
l | S. Giov. daughter of
i | Grisotomo. Giandomenico.
c \- Antonio.
e (Illegitimate)
Fiordelisa
||
Felice Polo,
called Cousins,
1280, 1300.
(II.) THE POLOS OF SAN GEREMIA.
The preceding Table gives the Family of our Traveller as far as I have
seen sound data for tracing it, either upwards or downwards.
I have expressed, in the introductory notices, my doubts about the
Venetian genealogies, which continue the family down to 1418 or 19,
because it seems to me certain that all of them do more or less confound
with our Polos of S. Giovanni Grisostomo, members of the other Polo Family
of S. Geremia. It will help to disentangle the subject if we put down what
is ascertained regarding the S. Geremia family.
