Sec. 25.  Arrangement of the Rowers in Mediaeval Galleys; a separate Oar to every Man. 26.  Change of System in 16th Century. 27.  Some details of 13th-Century Galleys. 28.  Fighting Arrangements. 29.  Crew of a Galley and Staff of a Fleet. 30.  Music and miscellaneous particulars.

VI.  THE JEALOUSIES AND NAVAL WARS OF VENICE AND GENOA.  LAMBA DORIA’S EXPEDITION TO THE ADRIATIC; BATTLE OF CURZOLA; AND IMPRISONMENT OF MARCO POLO BY THE GENOESE

Sec. 31.  Growing Jealousies and Outbreaks between the Republics. 32.  Battle in Bay of Ayas in 1294. 33.  Lamba Doria’s Expedition to the Adriatic. 34.  The Fleets come in sight of each other at Curzola. 35.  The Venetians defeated, and Marco Polo a Prisoner. 36.  Marco Polo in Prison dictates his Book to Rusticiano of Pisa.  Release of Venetian Prisoners. 37.  Grounds on which the story of Marco Polo’s capture at Curzola rests.

VII.  RUSTICIANO OR RUSTICHELLO OF PISA, MARCO POLO’S FELLOW-PRISONER AT GENOA, THE SCRIBE WHO WROTE DOWN THE TRAVELS

Sec. 38.  Rusticiano, perhaps a Prisoner from Meloria. 39.  A Person known from other sources. 40.  Character of his Romance Compilations. 41.  Identity of the Romance Compiler with Polo’s Fellow-Prisoner. 42.  Further particulars regarding Rusticiano.

VIII.  NOTICES OF MARCO POLO’S HISTORY AFTER THE TERMINATION OF HIS IMPRISONMENT AT GENOA

Sec. 43.  Death of Marco’s Father before 1300.  Will of his Brother Maffeo. 44.  Documentary Notices of Polo at this time.  The Sobriquet of Milione. 45.  Polo’s relations with Thibault de Cepoy. 46.  His Marriage, and his Daughters.  Marco as a Merchant. 47.  His Last Will; and Death. 48.  Place of Sepulture.  Professed Portraits of Polo. 49.  Further History of the Polo Family. 49 bis.  Reliques of Marco Polo.

IX.  MARCO POLO’S BOOK; AND THE LANGUAGE IN WHICH IT WAS FIRST WRITTEN

Sec. 50.  General Statement of what the Book contains. 51.  Language of the original Work. 52.  Old French Text of the Societe de Geographie. 53.  Conclusive proof that the Old French Text is the source of all the others. 54.  Greatly diffused employment of French in that age.

X. VARIOUS TYPES OF TEXT OF MARCO POLO’S BOOK

Sec. 55.  Four Principal Types of Text. First, that of the Geographic or Oldest French. 56. Second, the Remodelled French Text; followed by Pauthier. 57.  The Bern MS. and two others form a sub-class of this type. 58. Third, Friar Pipino’s Latin. 59.  The Latin of Grynaeus, a Translation at Fifth Hand. 60. Fourth, Ramusio’s Italian. 61.  Injudicious Tamperings in Ramusio. 62.  Genuine Statements peculiar to Ramusio. 63.  Hypothesis of the Sources of the Ramusian Version. 64.  Summary in regard to Text of Polo. 65.  Notice of a curious Irish Version.

XI.  SOME ESTIMATE OF THE CHARACTER OF POLO AND HIS BOOK