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[5] Dr. Caldwell.

[6] Indeed, Humboldt speaks of Brazil Isle as appearing to the west of
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[5] Dr. Caldwell.

[6] Indeed, Humboldt speaks of Brazil Isle as appearing to the west of Ireland in a modern English map-Purdy's; but I do not know its date.

(See Examen, etc., II. 244-245)

CHAPTER XXIII.

OF THE COUNTRY CALLED COMARI

Comari is a country belonging to India, and there you can see something of the North Star, which we had not been able to see from the Lesser Java thus far. In order to see it you must go some 30 miles out to sea, and then you see it about a cubit above the water.[NOTE 1]

This is a very wild country, and there are beasts of all kinds there, especially monkeys of such peculiar fashion that you would take them for men! There are also gatpauls[NOTE 2] in wonderful diversity, with bears, lions, and leopards, in abundance.

NOTE 1. - Kumari is in some versions of the Hindu cosmography the most southerly of the nine divisions of Jambodvipa, the Indian world. Polo's Comari can only be the country about Cape COMORIN, the [Greek: komaria akron] of Ptolemy, a name derived from the Sanskrit Kumari, "a Virgin," an appellation of the goddess Durga. The monthly bathing in her honour, spoken of by the author of the Periplus, is still continued, though now the pilgrims are few. Abulfeda speaks of Ras Kumhari as the limit between Malabar and Ma'bar. Kumari is the Tamul pronunciation of the Sanskrit word and probably Comari was Polo's pronunciation.

At the beginning of the Portuguese era in India we hear of a small Kingdom of COMORI, the prince of which had succeeded to the kingdom of Kaulam.

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