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Aurpórola-(Striped cloths and fringed.) Mantles These articles are imported from the interior with a double fringe.
parts of Ariako :Λιθίας υαλής πλείονα γένη και άλλης μορρίνης, της Sionpos 'Lvôkòs - Indian iron. guropéens é Acostrohe-Many sorts of glass or
Erówua-Sharp blades. crystal, and of that other transparent stone
Οθόνιον Ινδικόν το πλατύτερον, η λεγομένη μοναχή. called Myrrhina, made at Diospolis.
- Monakhê, Indian cotton cloth of great width. Opeixalkos-Yellow copper, for ornaments and
E-ryuaroyival-Cotton for stuffing. cut into pieces to pass for money.
Trepucópara-Sashes or girdles. Mediepa xalka-Copper fused with honey : for
Kavvákai-Drosses of skin with the hair or fur culinary Vessels and cutting into bracelets and
on. anklets worn by certain classes of women.
Molóxiva-Webs of cloth mallow-tinted. Elonpos-Iron. Consumed in making spear
Suvdoves 'oliyat--Fine muslins in small quantity. heads for hunting the elephant and other animals
Aakkos xp pártvos-Gum-lac : yielding Lake. and in making weapons of war.
The articles locally produced for export are llelúria-Hatchets. EKérapva--Adzes.
ivory, tortoise-shell, and rhinoceros. Most of Máyaipa-Swords.
the goods which supply the market arrive any Ποτήρια χαλκά στρογγύλα μεγάλα-Drinking
time from January to September—that, is from vessels of brass, large and round.
Tybi to Thôth. The best season, however, for Anváploy oliyor-A small quantity of denarii : ships from Egypt to put in heru is about the for the use of merchants resident in the country. month of September.
Oivos AaoðunuÒS ka! 'Iralıkds Où trolüs-Wine, 7. From this bay the Arabian Gulf trends Laodikean, i.e Syrian, from Laodike, (now Latakia) eastward, and at Aualités is contracted to and Italian, but not much.
its narrowest. At a distance of about 4000 "ELOV où tolú-Oil, but not much.
stadia (from Adouli), if you still sail along the 'Αργυρώματα και χρυσώματατοπικό κατεσκευασμέναι --Gold and silver plate made according to the
same coast, you reach other marts of Barbaria, fashion of the country for the king.
called the marts beyond the Straits), which occur 'ABar-Cloaks for riding or for the camp.
in successive order, and which, though harbourΚαννάκαι απλοϊ–Dresses simply made of sking less, afford at certain seasons of the year good with the hair or far on. These two articles of dress and safe anchorage. The first district you come are not of much value.
to is that called A ualitês, where the passage which from its resemblance in sound to the Latin nor any of the names which occur in the Periplus Dirae has sometimes been explained to mean except the haven of Daphnous. [Bandar Mariyah, "the terrible." (I. xv. 11; IV. vii. 9; VIII. lat. 11° 46' N., long. 50° 38E.] He supplies xvi. 12). "The Periplús," Vincent remarks, however many particulars regarding the region "makes no mention of Deire, but observes that which are left unnoticed by our author as having the point of contraction is close to Abalités no reference to commerce-particulars, however, or the Abalitik mart; it is from this mart that which prove that these parts which were resorted the coast of Africa falling down first to the South ! to in the times of the Ptolemies for elephant-huntand curving afterwards towards the East is styleding were much better known to the ancients than the Bay of Aualitês by Ptolemy, (IV. vii. they were till quite recently known to ourselves. 10, 20, 27, 30, 39,) but in the Periplds this name Ptolemy gives nearly the same series of names is confined to a bay immediately beyond the (IV. vii. 9, 10) as the Periplus, but with some disstraits which D'Anville has likewise inserted increpancies in the matter of their distances which his map, but which I did not fully understand he does not so accurately state. His list is: Dêre, till I obtained Captain Cook's chart and found it a city; A balitês or Aualitês, a mart; Mala ô, perfectly consistent with the Periplus." It is the a mart; Moundou or Mondon, & mart; gulf of Tejureh or Zeyla.
Mondou, an island; Mosulon, a cape and a mart; The tract of country extending from the Straits Kobe, a mart; Elephas, a mountain; Akto Cape Arômata (now Guardafui) is called kansi or Akannai, a mart; Aromata, a cape at the present day Adel. It is described by and a mart. Strabo (XVI. iv. 14), who copies his account of it! The mart of Abalitês is represented by the from Artemidoros. He mentions no emporium, modern Zeyla (lat. 11° 22 N., long. 43° 29' E.,
Bruce, Travels, vol. III., p. 62.-ED.
