Cloves, red and
white sanders, coco-nuts, Brazil, and various spices in the other island
the inhabitants are equally savage, and are said to have the heads and
teeth of dogs.
[1] Probably the gulph of Siam. - E.
[2] South-west, certainly. - E.
[3] The inlands in the gulf of Siam are small, and not numerous; so that
the passage is probably corrupted; and may have been in the original,
"that, leaving the gulf of Cheinan on the north, they left infinite
islands, &c; on the south." After all, the gulf of Cheinan may mean
the whole sea of China. - E.
[4] It is difficult to say precisely what division of farther India is here
meant by Ziambar. 1500 miles would carry us to the coast of Malaya;
but 1500 li, or about 500 miles reach only to the coast of
Cochin-China, or it may be Tsiompa. Ziambar, in the editions, is
variously written Ciambau, Ciariban, and Ziambar. - E.
[5] The direction of the voyage is here obviously erroneous, it must have
been between the south and the south-west, or south-south-west. In the
Trevigi edition, the Java of this part of our text is Lava, and
according to Valentine, Lava is the name of the principal city and
kingdom in Borneo; which at all events must be the island here
mentioned by Marco.
