The Travels Of Marco Polo - Volume 2 Of 2 By Marco Polo And Rustichello Of Pisa











































 -  And this naughty custom prevails all over
these provinces of India, to wit, that if a ship be driven by - Page 742
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And This Naughty Custom Prevails All Over These Provinces Of India, To Wit, That If A Ship Be Driven By Stress Of Weather Into Some Other Port Than That To Which It Was Bound, It Is Sure To Be Plundered.

But if a ship come bound originally to the place they receive it with all honour and give it

Due protection.[NOTE 4] The ships of Manzi and other countries that come hither in summer lay in their cargoes in 6 or 8 days and depart as fast as possible, because there is no harbour other than the river-mouth, a mere roadstead and sandbanks, so that it is perilous to tarry there. The ships of Manzi indeed are not so much afraid of these roadsteads as others are, because they have such huge wooden anchors which hold in all weather.[NOTE 5]

There are many lions and other wild beasts here and plenty of game, both beast and bird.

NOTE 1. - No city or district is now known by the name of ELY, but the name survives in that of Mount Dely, properly Monte d'ELY, the Yeli-mala of the Malabar people, and called also in the legends of the coast Sapta-shaila, or the Seven Hills. This is the only spur of the Ghats that reaches the sea within the Madras territory. It is an isolated and very conspicuous hill, or cluster of hills, forming a promontory some 16 miles north of Cananore, the first Indian land seen by Vasco da Gama, on that memorable August morning in 1498, and formerly very well known to navigators, though it has been allowed to drop out of some of our most ambitious modern maps.

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