Kauli is believed to be Korea, though it is not established that the whole territory is meant. The northern part was conquered by the Mongolians as early as 1231. We will see further on, that we still find that name on some maps. Obviously someone made the connection between Polo's Kauli and Korea. Martin Waldeseem ller, was born c. 1470 in Radolfzell, W rttemberg and died ca.
Japan is shown as a trapezium shape.
Waldeseem ller has thus taken the information from Marco Polo about Tartary and Zipangri, translated it into a map and added the worldmap of Ptolemy. After that for some time nobody from the West knew or wrote about Korea. C spedes was a Jesuit. Some Notes on the Earliest Western Contacts with Korea. From these provinces, but particularly from those nearest to the coast, had been brought as slaves a large number of men and women of all ages, among them some quite pretty children.