A Frenchman who visited the place, and had written a book about it, mentions the fact that there is a legend amongst the natives that vast treasure is buried in the ruins, but only one man, so far as we can discover, seems to have taken the trouble to have looked for it." "But how big are the ruins ?" "Bigger than London, so Coddy says!" Coddy nodded his head in confirmation of this fact.

But still Hayle seemed incredulous.
"And are you going to search all that area?
It strikes me that you will be an old man by the time you find the treasure, Kitwater." "Don't you believe it.

We've got something better to go upon than that.
There was an old Chinese traveller who visited this place in the year ...

what was the year, Coddy ?" "Twelve hundred and fifty-seven," Codd replied without hesitation.
"Well, he describes the glory of the place, the wealth of the inhabitants, and then goes on to tell how the king took him to the great treasure-chamber, where he saw such riches as mortal man had never looked upon before." "But that doesn't tell you where the treasure-chamber is ?" argued Hayle.
"Perhaps not, but there are other ways of finding out; that is, if a man has his wits about him.

You've got to put two and two together if you want to get on in this world.