To get to Sumatra Marco and his father and uncle sailed through the Strait of Malacca. As he was in Sumatra, Marco wrote that Sumatra was divided into eight kingdoms, and each kingdom spoke a different language. The kingdom that Marco stayed in was called Ferlec which today could be called Perak which is in the northern part of Malaysia. As he was in Ferlec Marco said that the people used to be Hindus but later converted to Islam through the contact with Muslim merchants. In Ferlec Marco learned new religions which he would later tell his people I n Venice.
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