The people who read it thought that Marco had made it up. The book told how the North Star disappeared below the horizon in Sumatra and of lands beyond the Equator.

• 看了这本游记的人，都认为是马可 - 波罗虚构的，因为书中讲到北极星在苏门答腊以及在赤道以南的大地上，是怎样降落到地平线以下的；