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gaza^ the modern Barochia, on the weftern fide of Hindoojlauj 

 wool, thread, and othonium ferkum'^K Thefe were carried the 

 whole of the journey by men on foot ; prodigious muft it have 

 been, if it is true that they went through Ba^ra, a detour of 

 amazing extent. 



The Wngdomoi Cambodia was known to xhtArabshy^htrnvao. rachmi. 

 oiRachmi. It was vifited in the ninth century by two Arabian 

 travellers, who report that the fineft muflins in the world were 

 made there, and that the natives wore garments fo fine that they 

 might be drawn through a middle fized ring. The fame writers 

 fpeak wonderful things of the Karkandan or unicorn, but from 

 the whole defcription, it is evident that they mean no other ani- 

 mal than our one-horned rinoceros. 



Let me conclude the account of the kingdom with faying, The Antien»t 

 that the antients comprehended under the name of Thina and si"^.^ ^^° 

 Sina^ not only Cambodia^ but 2X(o Pegu, Siam, Laos, Cochin-China, 

 and the more fouthern parts ol China, of which Thina was the 

 common capital. 



The noted ifland oi Fulo Condore lies about fifteen leagues to 

 the fouth of the weftern channel of the Cajnbodia. It is fituated 

 in Lat. 8° 40', its form is that of a crefcent ; the length not above 

 eight miles, the greateft breadth about two ; the whole is lofty 

 and mountanous, and furrounded by leflTer ifles ; the name is 

 derived from Pulo, an ifle, and Condore a calabafli, from its pro- 

 duction of that fruit. It is mentioned by a captain Saris, an 

 EngliJJjman, w^ho failed by it in 1605 in his way from Japan. 

 The harbor is betv\een the greater ifland and a lefTer called the 



* Outlines of the Globe, vol, i. p. 132. 



little 



