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Messer Marco Polo

CHAPTER IV
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At Lambri I put in for the sago you buy from the hairy men with tails.
"Son, never stop at the isle of Andaman.

The men there have faces like dogs.

They are a cruel generation, and eat every one they can catch.
I could tell you a story, but I would not spoil this fine spring night.
Go rather to the island of Ceylon, and see the King's Ruby, which is the greatest jewel in the world.

I stopped there and at Coromandel for the pearls the divers go down in the sea for, and there are no clothes on that island, so that every one goes naked as a fish.

And there is the shrine of Saint Thomas.


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