Marco Polo's Voyage to Indian Seas: 31: The Kingdom of Cambia [1]

This is a great kingdom to the west.  The people idolaters, with language of their own, and a ruler subject to none.  Here the Northstar appears more fully as it always does farther you go westward. This region is rich and productive, particularly in excellent indigo; also cotton, both raw and manufactured, which is exported to many other countries.  I may add, many hides are dressed and worked  with a skill nowhere surpassed; also other articles too tedious to enumerate.  The foreign merchants bring mostly gold, silver and brass. The people are not pirates, but honest, living by trade and manufacture.  And now I will tell you of Semenat.

Notes:-

1. Cambia: Modern day coastal town of Gujarat. There is another city by the same name, it is a small town in 

northern Sardinia, Italy. It has a rich history dating back to Roman Era.