but at the time of Ptolemy, the geographer, those two voyages must have been looked upon as fabulous, since he places after the Sinus Magnus, which I apprehend to be the Gulf of Siam, an unknown country, extending from Asia to Africa, and terminating at Cape Prassum, so that the Indian Ocean would have been no more than a lake.
Ptolomeo Geografoaren garaian bi itsasaldi horiek alegiazkotzat hartu behar ziren, zeren eta signus magnus-aren ondoren-Siamgo golkoa da hau, nik uste-lur ezezaguna jartzen baitu, Asiatik Afrikara Prassum harkaitzeraino doana.