Note 159 — VI. HERE FOLLOWETH CONCERNING INDIA TERTIA.[150]
Reading edition
This strange myth is in Marco Polo (Part iii. c. 23). He represents the islands to be “full five hundred miles out at sea,” south of Mekrán. The people of Sumatra believe that the inhabitants of Engano, a small island south of Bencoolen, are all females, and, like the mares of ancient story, are impregnated by the wind. (Marsden’s Sumatra.)