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faced south upon a great indentation of the sea, 

 called the Sea of Chin. In this sea were a vast 

 number of islands (estimated at 7459), mostly in- 

 habited. The Sea of Chin bounded Mangi on the 

 south for 1500 miles. The coast ended somewhat 

 south of west, and two months were required to 



Fig. 4 — The eastern hemisphere on Behaim's globe of 1492 (after the 

 reduction to map form in Ravenstein, Martin Behaim, Map 2). 



The geographical features in bold outline with names in heavy lettering 

 were derived from Ptolemy; those in broken outline with underscored 

 names, from Marco Polo; the remainder from other sources. 



