Re: Some replies to Matt33/Tokyo

Roger Mills wrote:
>Reading the archive for the period 11-10 to 11-14.
>
>You pointed out the similarity of Kash script to Thai.  The answer is yes,
>more or less, very impressionistically-- as I don't actually know the Thai
>alphabet, but have always thought it very beautiful.  Also Old Javanese
>script, but that's real eye-strain.
>
>Re origin of Cipango:  True, the Portugee got there first; but there were
>Italian Jesuits in China who could have relayed the Chinese name back to
>Italian cartographers.  Maybe?  Perhaps even Marco Polo heard refs. to what
>he heard as Cipango.??
He did. (IIRC, he however spelt it "Zipango".)

                                                   Andreas

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