Before then, Marco Polo's account of his travels to the East, exaggerated already, had been embellished since with fantastic illustrations that gave free rein to the imagination of a curious public (See picture 1).
早年馬可波羅大加渲染的東方遊記，仍然不能滿足人們的好奇。中古以來，不斷有人為之加繪插圖（圖一），盡情發揮他們對東方世界的想像力。