. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . [To/ace fi. 114. Chap. XIX. WINES AND SPIRITS I 15 very fruitful in every way except that there were no olives. The weary marinerslanded and enjoyed this pleasant rest from their toils. {Indica, 33 ; J. R. G. S. V. 274.) The name Formosa is probably only Rusticianos misunderstanding of Harmuza,aided, perhaps, by Polos picture of the beauty of the plain. We have the samechange in the old Mafomei for Mahomet, and the converse one in the Spanish hermosafor formosa. Teixeiras Chronicle says that the city
. The book of Ser Marco Polo : the Venetian concerning the kingdoms and marvels of the East . [To/ace fi. 114. Chap. XIX. WINES AND SPIRITS I 15 very fruitful in every way except that there were no olives. The weary marinerslanded and enjoyed this pleasant rest from their toils. {Indica, 33 ; J. R. G. S. V. 274.) The name Formosa is probably only Rusticianos misunderstanding of Harmuza,aided, perhaps, by Polos picture of the beauty of the plain. We have the samechange in the old Mafomei for Mahomet, and the converse one in the Spanish hermosafor formosa. Teixeiras Chronicle says that the city of Hormuz was founded by XaMahamed Dranku, Shah Mahomed Dirhem-Ko, in a plain of the same name. The statement in Ramusio that Hormuz stood upon an island, is, I doubt not, aninterpolation by himself or some earlier transcriber. When the ships of Nearchus launched again from the mouth of the Anamis, theirfirst days run carried them past a certain desert and bushy island to another whichwas large and inhabited. The desert isle was called Organa ; the large one by whichthey anchored Oar
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