South India and her Muhammadan Invaders c13.s1.60

c13.s1.60

‘When his general direction is from east to west, every new place reached is for him west of that last visited; whilst the Kaveri delta is as near the north point of Ceylon as Ramnad is to Aripo. The pearl difficulty may be solved by the probability that the dominion of Sonder Bandi extended to the coast of the Gulf of Mannar.’ (Marco Polo by Yule and Cordier ii, p. 335.)