It's the glorious mash-up of English and Indian colloquialism that makes this book, about the son of a European merchant and a Malayan lady, such a wild, whimsical delight.
该书的主人公是一名欧洲商人和马来女子的儿子，书中巧妙地融合了英语和印度俚语，野趣十足。
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One theory is that Marco Polo copied a sort of guide book on China written by a Persian merchant .