[245] Marco Polo's travels can easily be had in English; for example, in The Story of Marco Polo, by Noah Brooks, Century Company, 1898. A certain Franciscan monk, William of Rubruk, visited the far East somewhat earlier than the Polo brothers. The account of his journey, as well as the experiences of other mediæval travelers, may be found in The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, published by The Macmillan Company, 1900.
[246] See map above, pp. [242–243].
[247] Reference, Cambridge Modern History, Chapter I.
[248] Reference, Cambridge Modern History, Chapter II. Kingsley has described these mariners in his Westward Ho. He derives his notions of them from the collection of voyages made by an English geographer, Hakluyt (died 1616). Some of these are published by Payne, Voyages of Elizabethan Seamen (Clarendon Press, 2 vols., $1.25 each).
[249] See above, pp. [85], [151] sq., and Chapters [XIII]–[XIV].
[250] Rudolf, like many of his successors, was strictly speaking only king of the Romans, since he was never crowned emperor at Rome. See above, pp. [152 n.], [185].
[251] From 1438 to 1806 only two emperors belonged to another family than the Hapsburgs.