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The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2 |
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when, after some time, only the heart, the knots, and some other hard parts
remained. The product was known under different names, according to its quality
or shape, and in addition to the names given above, we find *fowl bones*, *horse-hoofs*,
and *green cinnamon*; these latter names, however, are seldom used."—H. C.]
The fine eagle-wood of Champa is the result of disease in a leguminous tree,
*Aloexylon Agallochum*; whilst an inferior kind, though of the same aromatic properties,
is derived from a tree of an entirely different order, *Aquilaria Agallocha*, and is
found as far north as Silhet.
The *Bonus* of the G. T. here is another example of Marco's use, probably un-
conscious, of an Oriental word. It is Persian *Abnús*, Ebony, which has passed almost
unaltered into the Spanish *Abenus*. We find *Ibenus* also in a French inventory
(*Douet d'Arcq*, p. 134); but the *Bonús* seems to indicate that the word as used by
the Traveller was strange to Rusticiano. The word which he uses for pen-cases too,
*Calamans*, is more suggestive of the Persian *Kalamdán* than of the Italian *Calamajo*.
"Ebony is very common in this country (Champa), but the wood which is the
most precious, and which is sufficiently abundant, is called 'Eagle-wood,' of which
the first quality sells for its weight in gold; the native name is *Kinam*." (*Bishop
Louis* in *J. A. S. B.* VI. 742; *Dr. Birdwood*, in the *Bible Educator*, I. 243;
*Crawford's Dict.*)
CHAPTER VI.
Concerning the Great Island of Java.
When you sail from Chamba, 1500 miles in a course
between south and south-east, you come to a great Island
called Java. And the experienced mariners of those
Islands who know the matter well, say that it is the
greatest Island in the world, and has a compass of more
than 3000 miles. It is subject to a great King and
tributary to no one else in the world. The people are
Idolaters. The Island is of surpassing wealth, producing
black pepper, nutmegs, spikenard, galingale, cubebs,
cloves, and all other kinds of spices.
This Island is also frequented by a vast amount of
shipping, and by merchants who buy and sell costly
goods from which they reap great profit. Indeed the
treasure of this Island is so great as to be past telling.
And I can assure you the Great Kaan never could get
possession of this Island, on account of its great distance,
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