Marco reached the Persian Gulf around 1272 with his father and uncle. They were planning to be head to china on ships, but the ships weren’t in a good enough shape to beat the storms of the Indian Ocean. Marco describes the ships as “being built without the benefit of nail but rather sewn together”. Instead of using ships the Polos traveled by land trough Afghanistan, where they found ruby minds. Marco got a fever while in Afghanistan, so the Polos stay in that region for about a year. Marco says that the almost magical quality of the high altitude and pure air cured his sickness.
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