How much of that is water and how much is earth?
Where ends Ocean-Sea and where begins India and Cathay, of which the ancients knew only a part?
The Arabian Alfraganus thinks that Ptolemy's degrees should be less in size.

If that be right, then the earth is smaller than is thought, and India nearer! I myself incline to hold with Alfraganus.

It may be that less than two months' sailing, calm and wind, would bring us to Cipango.

Give me the ships and I will do it!" "You might have had them yesterday." To a marked extent he could bring out and make visible his inner exaltation.

Now, tall, strong, white-haired, he looked a figure of an older world.