[23] As in 1071, when they crushed Romans and the Byzantines in the battle of Manzikert.
[24] "Tartari fecerunt equos nostros trotare."
In Xanadu did Kublai Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree,
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran,
Through caverns measureless to man,
Down to a sacred sea.
Coleridge: Kublai Khan.
[26] Probably the Andamans.
[27] This new knowledge had been really gained from the gradual spread of the Arab settlements down the south-east coast of Africa, during four centuries, from Guardafui, the Cape of spices, to the Channel of Mozambique.
[28] Cape Non = Fish Cape. But Latini took it as = Not, "from the fact that beyond it there is no return possible." And so the rhyme "Who pass Cape Non—Must turn again, or else begone" (lit. "or not," i.e., will not be able to return).
[29] Of 1306, 1351, 1367, 1375, 1380, 1436, 1448, 1459.
[30] See Note 1, page 137.