In this India be many islands, and more than 10,000 of them inhabited, as I have heard; wherein are many world's wonders.
In istâ Indiâ sunt insulæ multæ, et ut audivi, plus quam decem millia habitatæ: ubi sunt multa mirabilia mundi.
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Mirabilia descripta (wr. c. 1329–1338), ch. 5, sec. 5. Translated from the Latin original, as published at Paris in 1839, in the Recueil de Voyages et de Mémoires, of the Society of Geography, by Col. Henry Yule: The Wonders of the East (London: Hakluyt Society, 1863), p. 28