cimpagu

Updated: May 6, 2025

In this passage, in the edition of Harris, the sense seems obscurely to insinuate that this had been occasioned by the sea having broken down or overwhelmed certain lands or islands, producing numbers of smaller islands and extensive shoals. Zipangu, Zipangri, or Cimpagu, is Japan without any doubt. Named Abataa and Yonsaintin by Pinkerton, from the Trevigi edition.

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