Back to Table of Contents 4 To next page Poggio Bracciolini : Rome Historia de Varietate Fortune Lib 4 (1431) ------------------------------------------------------ Taken from: Richard Henry Major; India in the Fifteenth Century: Being a Collection of Narratives of Voyages to India, in the... In Rome after questioning Nicoli di Conti he meets there a delegation of Abyssinians who told him the following about their country: Some of them reported that the maritime region towards India produced ginger, cloves, sugar, and nuts, which are called muscatoe. |