with notes by W.W.
Rockhill (Hakluyt Soc., 1900).

Rubruck especially is a most delightful person.
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This, together with the whole account of the first journey of the elder Polos, the circumstances of the second journey, and of their subsequent return occurs in the first chapter of Marco Polo's book, which is a general introduction, after which he proceeds to describe in order the lands through which he passed.

This autobiographical section is unfortunately all too short.
17.

As a matter of fact, William of Rubruck had seen and described it before him.
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