Note 431 — Chapter VI · THE FINDING OF STRANGE COASTS.
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Footnote 431: I translate this prologue from the Italian text of the Vita dell' Ammiraglio, cap. viii. The original Latin has nowhere been found. A Spanish version of the whole may be found in Las Casas, Historia, tom. i. pp. 92-96. Las Casas, by a mere slip of the pen, calls "Paul, the physicist," Marco Paulo, and fifty years later Mariana calls him Marco Polo, physician: "por aviso que le dió un cierto Marco Polo médico Florentin," etc. Historia de España, tom. viii. p. 343. Thus step by step doth error grow.[Back to Main Text]