ABSTRACT
China is a great part of Scythia; for as Herodotus saith, Scythia extendeth itself unto India, which may be understood in one of two ways. Wherefore some do affirm many of the peoples to be like the Chinas, that is having small eyes, flat noses and broad faces, for the great commixture that the Chinas had with all of them, especially with the Jaos who are commonly more China-like. But the King of China, and was in danger by their seeking to conquer many other foreign countries, he withdrew himself with his men to his own kingdom, making a public edict that under pain of death none of the country should sail out of the kingdom of China. The people of the regions, because the land in the straight of Cimcapura makes a great bend into the sea like a cape, call the region which extends from this cape and straight to China the third India.
