But Even A Century And A Half Before This,
The Ruler Of The T'u-Kuh-Hun Nomads Had Already Borne The Title Of
Khakhan, Which (The Late Dr. Bretschneider Agreed With Me In Thinking) Was
Originally Of Tungusic And Not Of Turkish Origin.
The T'u-kuh-hun were of
the same race as the half-Mongol, half-Tungusic Tobas, who ruled for two
centuries over North China....
The title of Khakhan, in various bastard
forms, was during the tenth century used by the Kings of Khoten and Kuche,
as well as by the petty Ouigour Kings of Kan Chou, Si Chou, etc." (E.H.
PARKER, Asiatic Quart. Rev., Jan., 1904, pp. 139-140.)
Introduction, p. 19. [The] second start [of the Venetians] from Acre took
place about November, 1271.
M. Langlois remarks that the last stay of the Polos at Acre was
necessarily before the 18th November, 1271, date of the departure of
Gregory X. for the West. Cf. Itineraires a Jerusalem et Descriptions de
la Terre-Sainte rediges en francais aux XI'e, XII'e et XIII'e
siecles, publ. par H. MICHELANT et G. RAYNAUD (Geneve, 1882), pp.
xxviii-xxix:
"La date de 1269, donnee seulement par un des manuscrits de la redaction
de Thibaut de Cepoy, pour le premier sejour a Acre des Polo et leur
rencontre avec Tedaldo Visconti, qui allait etre elu pape et prendre le
nom de Gregoire X., date preferee par tous les editeurs a celles
evidemment erronees de Rusticien de Pise (1260) et des huit autres
manuscrits de Thibaut de Cepoy (1250 et 1260), n'est pas hors de toute
discussion. M.G. Tononi, archipretre de Plaisance, qui prepare une
histoire et une edition des ceuvres de Gregoire X., me fait remarquer que
les chroniqueurs ne placent le depart de Tedaldo pour la Terre-Sainte
qu'apres celui de S. Louis pour Tunis (2 juillet 1270), et que, d'apres un
acte du Tresor des Chartes, Tedaldo etait encore a Paris le 28
decembre 1269. Il faudrait done probablement dater de 1271 le premier et
le deuxieme sejour des Polo a Acre, et les placer tous deux entre le 9
mai, epoque de l'arrivee en Terre-Sainte d'Edouard d'Angleterre, - avec
lequel, suivant l'Eracles, aborda Tedaldo - et le 18 novembre, date
du depart du nouveau pape pour l'Occident." (Cf. Hist. litt. de la
France, XXXV, Marco Polo.)
Introduction, p. 19 n.
I have here discussed Major Sykes' theory of Polo's itinerary in Persia;
the question was raised again by Major Sykes in the Geographical
Journal, October, 1905, pp. 462-465. I answered again, and I do not
think it necessary to carry on farther this controversy. I recall that
Major Sykes writes: "To conclude, I maintain that Marco Polo entered
Persia near Tabriz, whence he travelled to Sultania, Kashan, Yezd, Kerman,
and Hormuz. From that port, owing to the unseaworthiness of the vessels,
the presence of pirates, the fact that the season was past, or for some
other reason, he returned by a westerly route to Kerman, and thence
crossed the Lut to Khorasan."
I replied in the Geographical Journal, Dec., 1905, pp.
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