In his journal, Houtman identified these coasts with Marco Polo's land of Beach, or Locach, as shown on maps of the time such as that of Petrus Plancius and Jan Huyghen van Linschoten.
In 1595 Jan Huyghen van Linschoten published previously-secret Portuguese sailing directions for the Indian Ocean.
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