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Poggio Bracciolini : Rome
Historia de Varietate Fortune Lib 4 (1431)
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Taken from: Richard Henry Major; India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, in the...
In Rome after questioning Nicoli di Conti he meets there a delegation of Abyssinians who told him the following about their country: Some of them reported that the maritime region towards India produced ginger, cloves, sugar, and nuts, which are called muscatoe.