This image shows a "Xarafo" - a money-changer - from Cambay. Without the help of such images De Varthema's stories would not have had the same impact. By the time of his death some time before 1517, he had become one of the most successful travel writers since Marco Polo three centuries earlier.
This
image shows a "Xarafo" - a money-changer - from Cambay. Without the
help of such images De Varthema's stories would not have had the same
impact. By the time of his death some time before 1517, he had become
one of the most successful travel writers since Marco Polo three
centuries earlier.
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