From China and Japan and from Siam came gum, spices, silks, chessmen, and curiosities for the parlor.
Rubies from Peru, fine cloths from Coromandel, and finer still from Bengal.

They got spikenard from Nepaul and Bhutan.

Their diamonds were from Golconda.

From Nirmul they purchased Damascus steel for their swords.

Nor is that all you'd see, and you'd be going down by the markets on a sunny morning, and a fine-thinking, low-voiced woman on your arm.