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Fan Chengda: Gui Hai Yu Heng Chi 桂海虞衡志 (Treatises of the supervisor and guardian of the Cinnamon Sea) (d1193)

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Taken from: Treatises of the Supervisor and Guardian of the Cinnamon Sea: The Natural World and Material Culture of Twelfth-Century China

West of Xilan (1) are the Five Indias (Wu Tianzhu). To the extreme south of there is the Kingdom of Gulin (Quillon). Farther west is the Eastern Arabian Sea (Dong Dashi Hai). To the west of that sea is the Kingdom of Arabia (Dashi Guo). And farther west of that is the Western Arabian Sea (Xi Dashi Hai), to which foreign merchants have no access.

Left: First page of this book

(1) Xilan: On Hainan island in the south of China.