10. In this India is found embar, which is like wood, and exceeding fragrant, and is called gemma marina, or the Treasure of the Sea.[158]
11. There also be certain animals like an ass, but with transverse stripes of black and white, such as that one stripe is black and the next white. These animals be wonderfully beautiful.
12. Between this India and India the Greater, are said to be islands of women only, and of men only, such that the men cannot live long in the islands of the women, and vice versa.
13. But they can live there for some x or xv days and cohabit; and when the women produce male children they send them to the men, and when female children they retain them.[159]
14. There are many other different islands in which are men having the heads of dogs, but their women are said to be beautiful.[160] I cease not to marvel at the great variety of islands that there be.
15. Let this suffice about India Tertia and the islands for the present.
VII.
HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING THE GREATER ARABIA.
1. I have been in the Greater Arabia, but can tell little, except that there grow there choice incense and myrrh.