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For that good deed ( mitzvah), Marco receives help from other Jewish people all throughout his travels.

Mordecai Cartafilo – A Jewish merchant of Venice he meets Marco in prison and escapes with Marco's help.

She introduces Marco to many of the Persian pleasures of the bedroom.

Princess Moth – The Crown Princess or Shahzrad Magas, daughter of Shahinshah Zaman and Shahryar Zahd of Baghdad.Marco later marries her daughter who is half his age when he finally returns to Venice 20 years after leaving. Before he leaves for his journey, Marco and Doris make love. Marco befriends Doris and her brother Ubaldo.

Doris – one of the “boat children,” the poor orphans of the Venice docks.

She is a deaf-mute who dies in childbirth.

Hui-Sheng – "Echo" Marco Polo's Min lover and consort.

He is later given his freedom by Marco and marries the former Turki princess Mar-Janar. Nostril is a Sind and has had many other names such as Sindbad, Ali Babar and Ali-ad-Din.

Nostril – Marco's slave bought for him by his father to keep an eye on Marco while the elder Polos left him behind in Baghdad.

Soon after the Polos arrive in his capital, Kubilai takes a liking to young Marco and shows him favor. He spends the rest of his life an invalid. Mafìo shares a potion with his lover Achmed and goes mad as a result. Marco learns of his uncle's homosexuality and is disgusted by it.

Marco Polo – protagonist and narrator: a Venetian merchant who travels east to China and becomes a courtier in the Mongol court of Kubilai Khan.Marco becomes even more uncontrollable when Zia Zulia and Michiel are caught sleeping together and subsequently run away. Marco becomes friends with Venice's "boat children", a group of orphans who live on the canals of Venice, and becomes particularly close to Ubaldo and his sister Doris. His mother dies when he is seven, and he becomes increasingly unruly as he is raised by family servants like Zia Zulia, and their black slave Michiel. Marco Polo is the last of the illustrious Polo family left in Venice, after his father and uncles moved abroad, leaving him and his mother behind. Marco remains in the empire for nearly twenty years and returns home as a wealthy man. When he is falsely accused of murdering the husband of his lover, he is exiled from Venice and travels east with his father and uncle to the court of Kublai Khan, Mongol emperor of the orient.

Unsupervised, he freely roams the streets and canals of the city getting in trouble. Marco is the only heir to the wealthy Polo family of Venice. The Journeyer is a historical novel about Marco Polo, written by Gary Jennings and first published in 1984.