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INTRODUCTION
..11 Interpol lite tur producerad olid noor los Kiral illn (1111117. und was there courricel cross thor: l'ersian Cullio Giarrhii, the comporium of the pearl fisticry still cauriced on among Bahrein Islands, the ancient Tylos und Aradus, which with Muscat, were the original seals or those scalaring Arals, who afterwarcis establisheal themselves in Irenicia :00) Curried thicir settleonents from port to port along the castern and soutlicrn shores of the Mediterrancau from Tyre to Sidon to the coast of Mauritania.
1. Imelin, l'attala - the modern Thattha on the river Indus in Sinelli, was in carly times a place of great importvicc--the point where all the caravan routes in India. and leading into lucia, convergeet. It was near to this spot that Alexander crossed the indus, and licre also the diffcrent lines from China, through the Kashmir valley, and from Sarmatia (now Russia), Media and Mesopotamia, through the Bamian and Khajber passes first cntcrca ludil. Sinch was therefore the place where a caravan of forcign merchants would first halt in Ludia.* Tlus confirms the statement in the Buddhist manuscript of the life of Jesus that lic first went to Sinclls
Besides the caravan route, there were two other routes the l'ersian Gull route itill the Reel Seit route. The Bible is full of references to the trace by these routes ilso. Jerusalem was in carly times an important place or commerce and thic rivalary between Jerusalem inel Edom linds a striking expression in the Bible tiroughout the whole period of prophetic (levelopinent ilmong the licbrews, as in Isaiah XXXIV. 5-6; Jeremiah XLIX. 13-22; Bizekici XXV. 13-14, and XXXV. 15; and Amos 1. 10-12
*] inechtel for much of this information to Sir George Birdwood.
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