The direction of the voyage is here obviously
erroneous, it must have
been between the south and the south-west, or south-south-west. In the
Trevigi edition, the Java of this part of our text is Lava, and
according to Valentine, Lava is the name of the principal city and
kingdom in Borneo; which at all events must be the island here
mentioned by Marco.—E.
 According to the Trevigi edition, as reported
by Pinkerton, these
islands are only seven miles from Lava or Borneo. At about seventy
miles distance to the south-west, there are two islands named Caremata
and Soorooto, which may be those mentioned in the text.—E.
 Called Lochach in some of the editions, and said
to be 200 miles from
Sondor and Condur. Whether this may be Ma-lacca or Ma-laya, it is
impossible to determine.—E.
 In the Trevigi edition only five miles, and the
island is called
Pentara. This may possibly be the island of Bintang in the
south-eastern entrance of the straits of Malacca.—E.
 Most probably the kingdom of Malacca. From
the Trevigi edition
Pinkerton calls this Malonir, and curiously identifies Pepetam,
Pentara, or Pentan, as the name of the city and kingdom of Malonir or
 If right in our former conjectures, the island
spoken of in the text
must be Sumatra not that now called Java. Indeed, the mention
immediately afterwards of the islands of Nocueran and Angaman 150
miles to the north, which can only he the Nicobar and Andaman islands,
establish the identity of Java-minor, here called Java the less, and
 The animal here described under the name of unicorn
is the Rhinoceros
monoceros, or one-horned rhinoceros of naturalists; but the single horn
is placed a little above the nose, not on the middle of the forehead,
as here erroneously described by Marco.—E
 He had evidently missed the Monsoon, and had
to await its return. From
this kingdom or division of the island, it probably acquired the name
of Sumatra, by which it is known in modern geography. From the
circumstance in the text of not seeing the great bear, it is probable
that Marco was stopped near the south-eastern extremity of the island.
What is here translated the great bear, Pinkerton calls, from the
Trevigi edition del Maistro. The polar star was invisible of
 Called Deragola by Pinkerton, from the Trevigi edition.—E.
 He here distinctly indicates the manufacture of sego.—E.
 Nicobar and Andaman, on the east side of the
bay of Bengal; called
Necunera and Namgama in the Trevigi edition.—E.