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0436 The Book of Ser Marco Polo : vol.2
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says it bears the name of the Apostle, and "is supposed to be the oldest in Malabar."
(Christ. Res. p. 113.)
[Quilon is "one of the oldest towns on the coast, from whose re-foundation in
1019, A.D., Travancore reckons its era." (Hunter, Gaz., xi., p. 339.)—H. C.]
How Polo comes to mention Coilum before Comari is a question that will be treated
further on, with other misplacements of like kind that occur in succeeding chapters.
Kúblái had a good deal of diplomatic intercourse of his usual kind with Kaulam.
De Mailla mentions the arrival at T'swan-chau (or Zayton) in 1282 of envoys from
Kiulan, an Indian State, bringing presents of various rarities, including a black ape
as big as a man. The Emperor had three times sent thither an officer called Yang