A land feature known as the "Province of Beach" or "Boeach" – from the Latin "Provincia boëach" – appears to have resulted from mistranscriptions of a name in Marco Polo's "Il Milione" (Book III). Polo described his journey by sea from China to India by way of Champa ("provincia ciamba"; modern southern Vietnam), "Java Major", "Locach" (modern Lop Buri), and Sumatra ("Java Minor"). In Cantonese, Lavo (an early name of Lop Buri) was pronounced "Lo-huk" 羅斛 and "Locach" was Marco Polo's transcription of this name. According to Polo, Locach was a kingdom where gold was "so plentiful that no one who did not see it could believe it". Polo's narrative describes the route southward from Champa toward Sumatra, but by a slip of the pen the name "Java" (which Polo did not himself visit) was substituted for "Champa" as the point of departure, thereby mis-locating Sumatra and Locach south of Java (rather than Champa). Consequently, some geographers believed that Sumatra and Locach were near, or extensions of, "Terra Australis".