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I 18   MARCO POLO.

VOL. II. BK. III.

Gondophernēs is to be found anywhere outside India, save in the

tradition about St. Thomas."

18.  p. 357.

CALAMINA.

On this city of the martyrdom of St. Thomas, see Indian

Antiquary, XXXII., pp. 148 seq. in Mr. Philipps' paper, and

XXXIII., Jan., 1904, pp. 31-2, a note signed W. R. P.

19.  p. 361. " In this kingdom [Mutfili] also are made the best

and most delicate buckrams, and those of highest price ; in sooth they

look like tissue of spider's web ! "

In Nan p'i (in Malabar) Chau Ju-kwa has (p. 88) : " The

native products include pearls, foreign cotton-stuff of all colours

(i.e. coloured chintzes) and tou-lo mién (cotton-cloth)." Hirth

and Rockhill remark that this cotton-cloth is probably the

buckram which looks like tissue of spider's web " of which Polo

speaks, and which Yule says was the famous muslin of Masuli-

patam. Speaking of Cotton, Chau Ju-kwa (pp. 217-8) writes :

The ki pi' tree resembles a small mulberry-tree, with a

hibiscus-like flower furnishing a floss half an inch and more in

length, very much like goose-down, and containing some dozens

of seeds. In the south the people remove the seed from the floss

by means of iron chopsticks, upon which the floss is taken in the

hand and spun without troubling about twisting together the

thread. Of the cloth woven therefrom there are several qualities ;

the most durable and the strongest is called t'ou-lo-mién ; the

second quality is called fan-p?' or ` foreign cloth ' ; the third ` tree

cotton ' or mu-mién ; the fourth ki-pu. These textures are some-

times dyed in various colours and brightened with strange

patterns. The pieces measure up to five or six feet in breadth."

XXI., p. 373.

THE CITY OF CALL.

Prof. E. H. PARKER writes in the Journal of the North-China

Branch of the Royal Asiatic Soc., X X XVI I., 1906, p. 196 " Yule's

identification of Kayal with the Kolkhoi of Ptolemy is supported

by the Sung History, which calls it both Ko-ku-lo and Ku-lo ;

it was known at the beginning of the tenth century and was

visited by several Chinese priests. In I41I the Ming Dynasty

actually called it Ka-i-léh and mention a chief or king there

named Ko-pu-che-ma."