Among other things he heard of a Frankish knight who had fallen in battle with Houlagou's champions, and won much honour, they said, having slain three.

He was shown the shrivelled arm of this knight, with a gold ring on the third finger.
Maffeo was a man of sentiment, and begged for and was given the poor fragment, meaning to accord it burial in consecrated ground when he should arrive in Europe.

He travelled to Bussorah, whence he came by sea to Venice.

Now at Venice there presently arrived the Count of St.Pol with a company of Frenchmen, bound on a mission to the Emperor.

Maffeo, of whom one may still read in the book of Messer Marco Polo, was become a famous man in the city, and strangers resorted to his house to hear his tales and see his treasures.