The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2
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Chapter 1 OF THE MERCHANT SHIPS OF MANZI THAT SAIL UPON THE INDIAN SEAS.
Chapter 2 DESCRIPTION OF THE ISLAND OF CHIPANGU, AND THE GREAT KAAN'S DESPATCH OF A HOST AGAINST IT.
Chapter 3 WHAT FURTHER CAME OF THE GREAT KAAN'S EXPEDITION AGAINST CHIPANGU.
Chapter 4 CONCERNING THE FASHION OF THE IDOLS.
Chapter 5 OF THE GREAT COUNTRY CALLED CHAMBA.
Chapter 6 CONCERNING THE GREAT ISLAND OF JAVA.
Chapter 7 WHEREIN THE ISLES OF SONDUR AND CONDUR ARE SPOKEN OF; AND THE KINGDOM OF LOCAC.
Chapter 8 OF THE ISLAND CALLED PENTAM, AND THE CITY MALAIUR
Chapter 9 CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF JAVA THE LESS. THE KINGDOMS OF FERLEC AND BASMA.
Chapter 10 THE KINGDOMS OF SAMARA AND DAGROIAN.
Chapter 11 OF THE KINGDOMS OF LAMBRI AND FANSUR.
Chapter 12 CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF NECUVERAN.
Chapter 13 CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF ANGAMANAIN.
Chapter 14 CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF SEILAN.
Chapter 15 THE SAME CONTINUED. THE HISTORY OF SAGAMONI BORCAN AND THE BEGINNING OF IDOLATRY.
Chapter 16 CONCERNING THE GREAT PROVINCE OF MAABAR, WHICH IS CALLED INDIA THE GREATER, AND IS ON THE MAINLAND.
Chapter 17 CONTINUES TO SPEAK OF THE PROVINCE OF MAABAR.
Chapter 18 DISCOURSING OF THE PLACE WHERE LIETH THE BODY OF ST. THOMAS THE APOSTLE; AND OF THE MIRACLES THEREOF.
Chapter 19 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF MUTFILI.
Chapter 20 CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF LAR WHENCE THE BRAHMINS COME.
Chapter 21 CONCERNING THE CITY OF CAIL.
Chapter 22 OF THE KINGDOM OF COILUM.
Chapter 23 OF THE COUNTRY CALLED COMARI
Chapter 24 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF ELI.
Chapter 25 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF MELIBAR.
Chapter 26 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF GOZURAT.
Chapter 27 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF TANA.
Chapter 28 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF CAMBAET.
Chapter 29 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF SEMENAT.
Chapter 30 CONCERNING THE KINGDOM OF KESMACORAN.
Chapter 31 DISCOURSETH OF THE TWO ISLANDS CALLED MALE AND FEMALE, AND WHY THEY ARE SO CALLED.
Chapter 32 CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF SCOTRA.
Chapter 33 CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF MADEIGASCAR.
Chapter 34 CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF ZANGHIBAR. A WORD ON INDIA IN GENERAL.
Chapter 35 TREATING OF THE GREAT PROVINCE OF ABASH WHICH IS MIDDLE INDIA, AND IS ON THE MAINLAND.
Chapter 36 CONCERNING THE PROVINCE OF ADEN.
Chapter 37 CONCERNING THE CITY OF ESHER.
Chapter 38 CONCERNING THE CITY OF DUFAR.
Chapter 39 CONCERNING THE GULF OF CALATU AND THE CITY SO CALLED.
Chapter 40 CONCERNING GREAT TURKEY.
Chapter 41 OF CERTAIN BATTLES THAT WERE FOUGHT BY KING CAIDU AGAINST THE ARMIES OF HIS UNCLE THE GREAT KAAN.
Chapter 42 WHAT THE GREAT KAAN SAID TO THE MISCHIEF DONE BY KAIDU HIS NEPHEW.
Chapter 43 OF THE EXPLOITS OF KING CAIDU'S VALIANT DAUGHTER.
Chapter 44 HOW ABAGA SENT HIS SON ARGON IN COMMAND AGAINST KING CAIDU.
Chapter 45 HOW ARGON AFTER THE BATTLE HEARD THAT HIS FATHER WAS DEAD, AND WENT TO ASSUME THE SOVEREIGNTY AS WAS HIS RIGHT.
Chapter 46 HOW ACOMAT SOLDAN SET OUT WITH HIS HOST AGAINST HIS NEPHEW WHO WAS COMING TO CLAIM THE THRONE THAT BELONGED TO HIM,
Chapter 47 HOW ARGON TOOK COUNSEL WITH HIS FOLLOWERS ABOUT ATTACKING HIS UNCLE ACOMAT SOLDAN.
Chapter 48 HOW THE BARONS OF ARGON ANSWERED HIS ADDRESS.
Chapter 49 THE MESSAGE SENT BY ARGON TO ACOMAT.
Chapter 50 HOW ACOMAT REPLIED TO ARGON'S MESSAGE.
Chapter 51 OF THE BATTLE BETWEEN ARGON AND ACOMAT, AND THE CAPTIVITY OF ARGON.
Chapter 52 HOW ARGON WAS DELIVERED FROM PRISON.
Chapter 53 HOW ARGON GOT THE SOVEREIGNTY AT LAST.
Chapter 54 HOW ACOMAT WAS TAKEN PRISONER.
Chapter 55 HOW ACOMAT WAS SLAIN BY ORDER OF HIS NEPHEW.
Chapter 56 HOW ARGON WAS RECOGNISED AS SOVEREIGN.
Chapter 57 HOW KIACATU SEIZED THE SOVEREIGNTY AFTER ARGON'S DEATH.
Chapter 58 HOW BAIDU SEIZED THE SOVEREIGNTY AFTER THE DEATH OF KIACATU.
Chapter 59 CONCERNING KING CONCHI WHO RULES THE FAR NORTH.
Chapter 60 CONCERNING THE LAND OF DARKNESS.
Chapter 61 DESCRIPTION OF ROSIA AND ITS PEOPLE. PROVINCE OF LAC.
Chapter 62 HE BEGINS TO SPEAK OF THE STRAITS OF CONSTANTINOPLE, BUT DECIDES TO LEAVE THAT MATTER.
Chapter 63 CONCERNING THE TARTARS OF THE PONENT AND THEIR LORDS.
Chapter 64 OF THE WAR THAT AROSE BETWEEN ALAU AND BARCA, AND THE BATTLES THAT THEY FOUGHT.
Chapter 65 HOW BARCA AND HIS ARMY ADVANCED TO MEET ALAU.
Chapter 66 HOW ALAU ADDRESSED HIS FOLLOWERS.
Chapter 67 OF THE GREAT BATTLE BETWEEN ALAU AND BARCA.
Chapter 68 HOW TOTAMANGU WAS LORD OF THE TARTARS OF THE PONENT.
Chapter 69 OF THE SECOND MESSAGE THAT TOCTAI SENT TO NOGAI, AND HIS REPLY.
Chapter 70 HOW TOCTAI MARCHED AGAINST NOGAI.
Chapter 71 HOW TOCTAI AND NOGAI ADDRESS THEIR PEOPLE, AND THE NEXT DAY JOIN BATTLE.
Chapter 72 THE VALIANT FEATS AND VICTORY OF KING NOGAI.
Chapter 73 AND LAST
Chapter 74 No.74
Chapter 75 Vitus
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Chapter 31 DISCOURSETH OF THE TWO ISLANDS CALLED MALE AND FEMALE, AND WHY THEY ARE SO CALLED.

When you leave this kingdom of Kesmacoran, which is on the mainland, you go by sea some 500 miles towards the south; and then you find the two Islands, MALE and FEMALE, lying about 30 miles distant from one another. The people are all baptized Christians, but maintain the ordinances of the Old Testament; thus when their wives are with child they ne

             
            

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