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The Travels of Marco Polo

ADEN. In the Ying yai shêng lan we read that “the kingdom (of A-tan) is on the sea‐coast. It is rich and prosperous, the people follow the doctrine of the Moslems and their speech is Arabic. Their tempers are overbearing and violent. They have seven to eight thousand well-trained soldiers, horse and foot, whom the neighbouring countries fear.” (W. W. Rockhill, T’oung Pao, XVI., 1915, p. 607.)