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oll, burned as fuel in China. The Chinese find these stones by digging deep
underground. Many people refused to believe that such stones could exist.
(Marco Polo is referring to coal which had not yet been discovered in Europe.)
I told people of the Chinese use paper money which bore the seal of the emperor.
My countrymen traded with heavy coins made of copper, gold or lead and paper
money was unheard of. Many of my countrymen, even members of my own
family, thought my tales were made-up of fantasies. But the truth is that I did not tell
even half of what I saw.
Do you know, while monks and scribes were handwriting books in Europe, the
Chinese were printing theirs? They had a marvelous device called the Printing
Press. As book-making was a labourious work in Europe, the only books in
circulation were the Bible and a few books of poetry.
My book "The Travels of Marco Polo" only came to be written by an amazing
coincidence. A few years after I returned to Venice, I served as a soldier in the war
gainst Genoa. Iwas captured and whilst in jail, who should I find myself sharing a
Il with? None other than the​

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