The One Is Called SONDUR And The Other CONDUR.[NOTE 2] As There Is Nothing About Them Worth Mentioning, Let Us Go On Five Hundred Miles Beyond Sondur, And Then We Find Another Country Which Is Called LOCAC.

It is a good country and a rich; [it is on the mainland]; and it has a king of its own.

The people are Idolaters and have a peculiar language, and pay tribute to nobody, for their country is so situated that no one can enter it to do them ill. Indeed if it were possible to get at it, the Great Kaan would soon bring them under subjection to him.

In this country the brazil which we make use of grows in great plenty; and they also have gold in incredible quantity. They have elephants likewise, and much game. In this kingdom too are gathered all the porcelain shells which are used for small change in all those regions, as I have told you before.

There is nothing else to mention except that this is a very wild region, visited by few people; nor does the king desire that any strangers should frequent the country, and so find out about his treasure and other resources.[NOTE 3] We will now proceed, and tell you of something else.

NOTE 1. - All the MSS. and texts I believe without exception read "when you leave Java," etc. But, as Marsden has indicated, the point of departure is really Champa, the introduction of Java being a digression; and the retention of the latter name here would throw us irretrievably into the Southern Ocean.

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