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What the Strangers Wrote Down

A Persian envoy, an Italian, a Russian and two Portuguese all saw the same city. None of them could find words for it.

Between about 1420 and 1535 a run of men from abroad came to a city on the Tungabhadra and tried to set it down.

They came from different lands and wrote in different tongues. They agree with each other to an awkward degree.

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