Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I [THE MEDITERRANEAN.]
- CHAPTER II CONCERNING ARMENIA
- CHAPTER III CONCERNING THE REALM OF PERSIA
- CHAPTER IV CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS
- CHAPTER V CONCERNING INDIA THE GREATER
- CHAPTER VI CONCERNING INDIA TERTIA (S. E. AFRICA)
- CHAPTER VII CONCERNING THE GREATER ARABIA
- CHAPTER VIII CONCERNING THE GREAT TARTAR
- CHAPTER IX CONCERNING CALDEA
- CHAPTER X CONCERNING THE LAND OF ARAN
- CHAPTER XI CONCERNING THE LAND OF MOGAN
- CHAPTER XII CONCERNING THE CASPIAN HILLS
- CHAPTER XIII CONCERNING GEORGIANA
- CHAPTER XIV CONCERNING THE DISTANCES OF COUNTRIES
- CHAPTER XV CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF CHIOS
- CHAPTER XVI CONCERNING TURKEY
- INDEX TO THE MIRABILIA OF JORDANUS AND THE COMMENTARY THEREON
CHAPTER XV - CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF CHIOS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 June 2011
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER I [THE MEDITERRANEAN.]
- CHAPTER II CONCERNING ARMENIA
- CHAPTER III CONCERNING THE REALM OF PERSIA
- CHAPTER IV CONCERNING INDIA THE LESS
- CHAPTER V CONCERNING INDIA THE GREATER
- CHAPTER VI CONCERNING INDIA TERTIA (S. E. AFRICA)
- CHAPTER VII CONCERNING THE GREATER ARABIA
- CHAPTER VIII CONCERNING THE GREAT TARTAR
- CHAPTER IX CONCERNING CALDEA
- CHAPTER X CONCERNING THE LAND OF ARAN
- CHAPTER XI CONCERNING THE LAND OF MOGAN
- CHAPTER XII CONCERNING THE CASPIAN HILLS
- CHAPTER XIII CONCERNING GEORGIANA
- CHAPTER XIV CONCERNING THE DISTANCES OF COUNTRIES
- CHAPTER XV CONCERNING THE ISLAND OF CHIOS
- CHAPTER XVI CONCERNING TURKEY
- INDEX TO THE MIRABILIA OF JORDANUS AND THE COMMENTARY THEREON
Summary
I have seen an island called Chios, where groweth mastick in very great abundance; nor do those trees when planted anywhere else in the whole world produce mastick. Mastick is the gum of a very noble tree. That island was held by a very noble Genoese, by name Martin Zachary, a most worthy sea captain, who slew or took more than ten thousand Turks. But, alackaday! the rascally emperor of Constantinople, Greek that he was, got possession of the island by treason, a thing most deeply to be lamented; and all the more that the captain was taken in person, and made a prisoner.
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- Mirabilia DescriptaThe Wonders of the East, pp. 56 - 57Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2010First published in: 1863