At p. iii of the Introduction I assumed that the island of el-Kishm was identical with el-Idrîsy's Kîsh or Kaish, but lighting subsequently upon the following note in Yule's Cathay and the Way Thither, p. cxv, I deemed the subject worthy of further investigation:—

”I have fallen into an error in the notes on Oderic (p. 52), and again at p. 400, in confounding the large island of Kishm, near the mouth of the Persian Gulf, with the much smaller Kais or Kísh, about a hundred niiles further up, which last was the real terminus of Indian trade for several ages, and the seat of a principality, Quisoi of Polo. At least two modern editors of Polo seem to have made the same mistake. Tet Marco, I see, shows the true approximate position of Quisci as two hundred miles further up the Grulf than Hormuz. Kish, in the map before me, (Steiler's Hand Atlas), is termed Ouase or Kena.”

The passage in Polo referred to (the latter clause of which is omitted both by Ramusio and Marsden) I conceive to be the following, as given at p. 195 of Pasini's edition:—“Leaving the city of Calatu [Kalât, on the coast below Maskat, see ante, p. 37], and proceeding three hundred miles, between north-west and north, the city of Oormos [Hormûz] is reached, and five hundred miles from Calatu, between north-west and west, Chisi is found.”