ABSTRACT
LUDOVICO DI VARTHEMA. 107 and lacra} with other spices, the names of which I do not remember. An immense quantity of cotton is produced here, so that every year forty or fifty vessels are laden with cotton and silk stuffs, which stuffs are carried into different countries. In this kingdom of Combeia also, about six days* journey, there is the mountain whence cornelians are extracted, and the mountain of chalcedonies. Nine days’ journey from Combeia there is another mountain in which diamonds are found.2
