"Here, opposite Africa, near the equator, are islands called Manillas.

They have lodestone, so that no ship with iron can sail to them.

Here is Java of all the spices.

Here is great India that the ancients knew." "We are bearing toward Cipango," said the Admiral.

"I look first for small outward islands, where perhaps the folk are uncouth and simple, and there is little gold." And again days passed.