‘First,’ wrote Theo, ‘according to the tradition of the eldest jewellers in the City of Delhee, as handed down from family to family, this diamond was extracted from the mine Koh-i-Noor, four days journey from Masulipatnam to the north west, on the banks of the Godavari, during the lifetime of Krishna, who is supposed to have lived 5,000 years since…’7
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