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Sailing from Zaitum, 1500 miles to the south westwards, we pass a gulf called Cheinan , which extends two months sail to the northward, still confining on the south-east of Mangi, and elsewhere, with Ania and Toloman, and other provinces mentioned formerly. Within it are infinite islands all in a manner inhabited , and in them is found abundance of gold, and they trade with each other.
The inlands in the gulf of Siam are small, and not numerous; so that the passage is probably corrupted; and may have been in the original, "that, leaving the gulf of Cheinan on the north, they left infinite islands, &c; on the south." After all, the gulf of Cheinan may mean the whole sea of China.
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