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Citation Information
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MARCO POLO BOOK III.
CHAPTER VII.
WHEREIN THE ISLES OF SONDUR AND CONDUR ARE SPOKEN OF ; AND THE KINGDOM OF LOCAL.
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WHEN you leave Chamba 1 and sail for 700 miles on a
course between south and south-west, you arrive at two
Islands, a greater and a less. The one is called SONDUR
and the other CONDUR.2 As there is nothing about them
worth mentioning, let us go on five hundred miles beyond
Sondur, and then we find another country which is called
LOCAC. It is a good country and a rich ; [it is on the
mainland] ; and it has a king of its own. The people
are Idolaters and have a peculiar language, and pay
tribute to nobody, for their country is so situated that no
one can enter it to do them ill. Indeed if it were
possible to get at it, the Great Kaan would soon bring
them under subjection to him.
In this country the brazil which we make use of
grows in great plenty ; and they also have gold in in-
credible quantity. They have elephants likewise, and
much game. In this kingdom too are gathered all
the porcelain shelf which are used for small change in
all those regions, as I have told you before.
There is nothing else to mention except that this is a
very wild region, visited by few people ; nor does the
king desire that any strangers should frequent the
country, and so find out about his treasure and other
resources.3 We will now proceed, and tell you of
something else.
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NOTE I.—A11 the MSS. and texts I believe without exception read " when you leave Java," etc. But, as Marsden has indicated, the point of departure is really Clianípa, the introduction of Java being a digression ; and the retention of the latter name here would throw us irretrievably into the Southern Ocean. Certain old geographers, we may observe, did follow that indication, and the results were curious
enough, as we shall notice in next note but one. Marsden's observations are
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