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chapter10One day Niccolo decided to ask Kublai Khan about going home. But the Khan was immediately worried and said no. He then began to ask Niccolo a lot of questions. Why did the polos want to go home? Why did they want to go on a dangerous journey again? Did they not want to stay with him? So the Polos continued their usual life at the Khan’s court. But one day news arrived from Arghun, the ruler of the Mongol Empire in Persia. He was the grandson of Kublai Khan’s brother. Arghun’s wife was dead and he wanted to marry again. But his new wife had to be from the most important Mongol family. So Kublai Khan said that Arghun could marry a beautiful young princess from his court- a seventeen-year-old girl called Kokachin. At first, Kokachin began her journey to meet Arghun with three Persian ambassadors. But they turned back because of terrible fighting on the roadBack at the Mongol court, the three Persian ambassadors secretly met the Polos. They needed to take Kokachin to Persia soon, and perhaps these three famous traveller could go with them. The Polos were, of course, very pleased with this plan and they talked to the Khan about it. In the end, he agreed. He also said that the Polos could visit their families in Venice but after that they had to return to see him.The Khan again gave the men gold passports, and bags of valuable jewels as presents In 1292 the group sailed food and drink for the long journey. There were hundreds of sailors, servants, and passengers on each ship.The ships stopped at a numbers of places – for example, the island of Java, Sumatra, and Sri Lanka, and also parts of India. But it was not easy travelling by sea. In Java they had to stop for months because of heavy rain, and on the two year journey 600 passengers died from accident, storms, or bad food. Two of those 600 dead were the Persian ambassadors.In the end, the Polos, Kokachin, and the last Persian ambassadors arrived in Hormuz. But messengers from Persia soon brought had news- Arghun was now dead. The ambassador and the Polos quickly spoke to the Persian messengers and they decided on a new plan - Kokachin could now marry Arghun’s son Ghazan. So Niccolo,Maffeo,and Marco took the princess up to the city of Kerman to meet her new husband. Kokachin cried when the Polos left her. After a long journey together with many adventures they were now good friendsThe Polos began to turn home. But they soon had more bad news. Kublai Khan was dead. With his death, the great Mongo Empire stopped being so important. And for the Polos this was the end of their journeys to China. Months later, Niccolo,Maffeo, and Marco arrived safely back Venice. It was twenty-four years since they last left. But did their friends and families still remember them?
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