else in the world. The people areIdolaters. The Island is of surpassing wealth, producingblack pepper, nutmegs, spikenard, galingale, cubebs,cloves, and all other kinds of spices. This Island is also frequented by a vast amount ofshipping, and by merchants who buy and sell costlygoods from which… … VOL. II. 274 MARCO POLO Book III. and the great expense of an expedition thither. Themerchants of Zayton and Manzi draw annually greatreturns from this country.1 Note i. — Here Marco speaks of that Pearl of Islands, Java. The chapter is adigression from the course of his voyage towards India, but…
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