The Journeyer

When Marco Polo lay on his deathbed,

his priest, his friends and relations

clustered around him to plead that he

at last renounce the countless lies he

had related as his true adventures, so his

soul would go cleansed to Heaven. The

old man raised up, roundly damned them

all and declared, “I have not told

the half of what I saw and did!”

ACCORDING TO

FRA JACOPO D’ACQUI,

MARCO POLO’S CONTEMPORARY

AND HIS FIRST BIOGRAPHER