Polo

(noun.) a game similar to field hockey but played on horseback using long-handled mallets and a wooden ball.

(noun.) Venetian traveler who explored Asia in the 13th century and served Kublai Khan (1254-1324).

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• These travels of Marco Polo were only the beginning of a very considerable intercourse. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Pekin Polo calls Cambulac; Northern China, Cathay (= Khitan); and Southern China of the former Sung dynasty, Manzi. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• It begins by telling of the journey of Marco's father, Nicolo Polo, and uncle, Maffeo Polo, to China. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Nay, there is doubtless much truth in those extravagant travels of Marco Polo, Sir John Mandeville, and such-like wanderers. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The popular imagination has always been disposed to ascribe every such striking result to Marco Polo. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Chinese records mention a certain Polo attached to the imperial council in 1277, a very valuable confirmation of the general truth of the Polo story. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There were many mute Marco Polos who never met their Rusticianos, and history has not preserved their names. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The three Polos started by way of Palestine and not by the Crimea, as in the previous expedition. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Polos had taken about three and a half years to get to China. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The Polos then went by Tabriz to Trebizond, sailed to Constantinople, and got back to Venice about 1295. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.

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