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I refer to the Venetian Marco Polo, whose reports, once discredited as the fables of a traveller, are now recognized among the sources of history, and especially of geographical knowledge.
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gutenberg.orgCharles Sumner: “I refer to the Venetian Marco Polo, whose reports, once discredited as the fables of a traveller, are now recognized…”
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Sumner references Marco Polo as a historical figure whose accounts of China were initially doubted but are now valued for their historical significance.
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