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Citation Information
MARCO POLO BooK III.
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for so many ages. " Rice and milk " they have not, and their fruits are only wild
ones.
[From the Sing-ch'a Slag/kg-fan quoted by Professor Schlegel (Geoff Notes, I. p. 8)
we learn that these islanders have neither " rice or corn, but only descend into the sea and catch fish and shrimps in their nets ; they also plant Banians and Cocoa-trees
for their food."—H. C.]
I imagine our traveller's form Angazzzazzain to be an Arabic (oblique) dual-
e The two ANDAMANS," viz. The Great and The Little, the former being in truth a chain of three islands, but so close and nearly continuous as to form apparently one,
and to be named as such.
[Professor Schlegel writes (Geog. Notes, I. p. 12) : " This etymology is to be ire-
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jected because the old Chinese transcription gives So—(or Sun) (lama. . . . The Pieu-i-tien (eh. 107, I. fol. 30) gives a description of Andaman, here called An-to-nzan kwol, quoted from the San-tsai Tu-hwui."—H. C.]
The origin of the name seems to be unknown. The only person to my knowledge who has given a meaning to it is Nicolo Conti, who says it means " Island of Gold " ; probably a mere sailor's yarn. The name, however, is very old, and may perhaps be traced in Ptolemy ; for he names an island of cannibals called that of Good Fortune, 'AyaOov 8alyovos. It seems probable enough that this was 'Ay& u óvos Ni)dos, or the like, " The Angdaman Island," misunderstood. His next group of Islands is the Barussae, which seems again to be the Lankha Baílzís of the oldest Arab navigators,
since these are certainly the Nicobars. [The name first appears distinctly in the
Arab narratives of the 9th century. ( Yule, Hobson- johson. )]
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