Most of them produce pearls and precious stones of various kinds; there is one which produces the pure and brilliant pearl,( 5)--an island which would form a square of about ten le.

The king employs men to watch and protect it, and requires three out of every ten such pearls, which the collectors find.
NOTES (1) Probably the modern Champanagur, three miles west of Baglipoor, lat.

25d 14s N., lon.

56d 55s E.
(2) Then the principal emporium for the trade with Ceylon and China; the modern Tam-look, lat.

22d 17s N., lon.