ABSTRACT

Mongols stood in considerable fear of the Franks is found in other Western sources also nota~ly in the reports of Carpini's mission: see Jackson, 'The crisis in the Holy Land ~ 1260 , pp. 497-9.

The Sea of Azov: seep. 64. 3 As enumerated above, p. 69. 4 The notion that the Nile divided Asia &om Africa (Libya) had been challenged by

Herodotus, II, 16: Rockhill, Rubruck, p. 96 n.2. For the Don as the boundary between Europe and Asia, see above, p. 105 and n.8.