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Messer Marco Polo

CHAPTER IV
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Java is fifteen hundred miles from Chamba, south and southeast, and it took me four months sailing, but a sea-captain cannot pass Java by, for it is the chief place for black pepper, nutmegs, spikenard, galingale, cubebs, doves, and all the spices that grow.
"And I stopped at various small islands from there, until I came to Basma, which is the island of the unicorns.

And there we trade in pygmies, which ignorant people think are human folk.

They are just a wee monkey, with all the hair plucked out except the hair of the beard.
There is great money in them.
"I stopped at Sumatra for cocoanuts and toddy, and just for water at Dragoian.

Dragoian is not a good city.

It is filled with sorcerers who have tattooed faces.


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