When therefore we had arranged, as has been already stated elsewhere, to set out for the (land of the) Tartars wc (left Lyons on the 16th April, 1245, and after travelling through Germany)2 came to the King of Bohcmia. 3 And having asked his advice (734), for we were personally acquainted with this lord from of old, which was the best road for us to go by, he answered that it were best, it seemed to him, to go by Poland and Ruscia ; for he had relatives in Poland, with whose aid we could enter Ruscia; so having given us his letters and a gooP escort to take us through Poland, he caused also money to be given us to defray our travelling expenses through his lands and cities as far as (the court of) Boleslas, Duke of Sclesia, his nephew, with whom also we were personally acquainted.