262 mengreli: Mingrelians or Mingrelia (ibid., 647).
263 zichia: =“regional name of Circassia” (ibid., 646).
264 copa: =Copa (ibid.).
265 matraca: =Matrega, Genoese trading town on Taiman Peninsula (ibid.).
X. Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf, and Red Sea
266 Ma....dicho: Mare Indicho.
267 Mare de persia.
268 M.......: Mare rosso.
269 ... Taprobana: Trapobana, CA, CE; the Taprobane of the ancient geographers was Ceylon; in the Middle Ages the name was probably applied to Sumatra (Cordier, CA, 57-58; Kret., CE, 107; for suggested identifications of places shown in Trapobana on CA see Gerini, 646-647).
270 famda|bo(?): ?Regio Femarum (for Feminarum) on island of Iana, CA, which is perhaps a reflection of Polo’s story of the Male and Female Islands (ii, 404-405); see also Gerini, 647, n. 2.