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The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 2

Note 1 — Chapter LXVIII

Henry Yule translation

The Lu or Circuit was an administrative division under the Mongols, intermediate between the Sing and the Fu, or department. There were 185 lu in all China under Kúblái. (Pauth. 333). [Mr. E. L. Oxenham, Hist. Atlas Chin. Emp., reckons 10 provinces or sheng, 39 fu cities, 316 chau, 188 lu, 12 military governorships.—H. C.]

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