Identifier: bookofsermarcopo00polo (find matches)
Title: The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East
Year: 1903 (1900s)
Authors: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Cordier, Henri, 1849-1925 Yule, Amy Frances Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889
Subjects: Polo, Marco, 1254-1323? Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889 Genghis Khan, 1162-1227 Polo family Inscriptions, Chinese Early maps Mongols Voyages and travels
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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IMAGE: Marco Polo's Itineraries No II. Kerman to Hormuz (Bk.1. Ch.19) - (To/ace fi. 114. Chap. XIX. WINES AND SPIRITS I 15 very fruitful in every way except that there were no olives. The weary mariners landed and enjoyed this pleasant rest from their toils. (Indica, 33 ; J. R. G. S. V. 274.) The name Formosa is probably only Rusticianos misunderstanding of Harmuza, aided, perhaps, by Polos picture of the beauty of the plain. We have the same change in the old Mafomei for Mahomet, and the converse one in the Spanish hermosa for formosa. Teixeir as Chronicle says that the city of Hormuz was founded by XaMahamed Dranku, i.e. Shah Mahomed Dirhem-Ko, in a plain of the same name. The statement in Ramusio that Hormuz stood upon an island, is, I doubt not, an interpolation by himself or some earlier transcriber. When the ships of Nearchus launched again from the mouth of the Anamis, their first days run carried them past a certain desert and bushy island to another which was large and inhabited. The desert isle was called Organa ; the large one by which they anchored Oar

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