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PERIPLUS OF THE ERYTHRAAN SEA.
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across the strait to the opposite point of Arabia is shortest. Here is a small port of trade, called, like the district, Aualitês, which can be approached only by little boats and rafts. The imports of this place are
'Yali Nida o'ÚM pektos-Flint glass of various sorts.
[Xvós] Atostolerukis Oupakos-Juice of the sour grape of Diospolis.
Ιμάτια βαρβαρικά σύμμικτα γεγναμμένα-Cloths of different kinds worn in Barbaria dressed by the fuller.
Xitos-Corn. Olvos-Wine. Κασσίτερος ολίγος-A little tin.
The exports, which are sometimes conveyed on rafts across the straits by the Berbers themselves to Okelis and Mouza on the opposite coast, are
Apópara-Odoriferous gums. 'Eléças 'oliyos--Ivory in small quantity. Xelávn-Tortoise-shell. Σμύρνα ελαχίστη διαφέρουσα δε της άλλης-Myrrh in very small quantity, but of the finest sort. Mákeup-Macer.
The barbarians forming the population of the place are rude and lawless men.
8. Beyond Aualitês there is another mart, superior to it, called Mala 0, at a distance by sea of 800 stadia. The anchorage is an open road, sheltered, however, by a cape protruding eastward. The people are of a more peaceable disposition than their neighbours. The imports are such as have been already specified, with the addition of - Mcloves xerūves—Tunics in great quantity.
Sáyou 'AprivONTIKO yeyvapuévoi kal BeBapuévoCoarse cloaks (or blankets) manufactured at Arsinoe, prepared by the fuller and dyed.
Mediepla óliya. - A few utensils made of copper fused with honey. Síðnpos-Iron.
Ayváplov où ou xpuooute kal åpyupowr-Specie, -gold and silver, but not much.
The exports from this locality areSjúpva—Myrrh. AlBayos ó mepatikÒS Oliyos-Frankincense which toe call peratic, i.e. from beyond the straits, a little only.
Karola ckanporépa--Cinnamon of a hard grain. Aouaka-Douaka (an inferior kind of cinnamon).
Kdykapor-The gum (for fumigation) kangkaman. Dekamalli,' gum. | Máreip-The spice macer, which is carried to Arabia.
Sópara otraviws-Slaves, a few.
9. Distant from Malañ a two days' sail is the trading port of Moundou, where ships find a safer anchorage by mooring at an island which lies very close to shore. The exports and imports are similar to those of the preceding marts, with the addition of the fragrant gum called Mokrrotou, a peculiar product of the place. The native traders here are uncivilized in their manners.
10. After Moundou, if you sail eastward as before for two or three days, there comes next Mosyllon, where it is difficult to anohor. It imports the same sorts of commodities as have been already mentioned, and also utensils of silver and others of iron but not so many, and glass-ware. It exports a vast amount
79 miles from the straits.] On the N. shore of the gulf are Abalit and Tejureh. Abalit is 43 miles from the straits, and Tejureh 27 miles from Abalit. This is the Zouileh of Ebn Haukal and the Zalegh of Idrisi. According to the Periplús it was near the straits, but Ptolemy has fixed it more correctly at the distance from them of 50 or 60 miles.
(8) Mala ô as a mart was much superior to Abalitês, from which our author estimates its distance to be 800 stadia, though it is in reality greater. From the description he gives of its situation it must be identified with Berbereh [lat. 10° 25' N., long. 45° 1' E.] now the most considerable mart on this part of the coast. Vincent erroneously places it between Zeyla and the straits.
(9) The next mart after Malaô is Moundou,
which, as we learn from Ptolemy, was also the name of an adjacent island-that which is now called Meyet or Burnt-island [lat. 11° 12' N., long. 47° 17' E., 10 miles east of Bandar Jedid).
(10) At a distance beyond it of two or three days' sail occurs Mosylon, which is the name both of a mart and of a promontory. It is mentioned by Pliny (VI. 34), who says: "Further on is the bay of Abalitês, the island of Diodorus and other islands which are desert. On the mainland, which has also deserts, occur a town Gaza (Bandar Gazim, long. 49° 13' E.), the promontory and port of Mosylon, whence cinnamon is exported. Sesostris led his army to this point and no further. Some writers place one town of Ethiopia beyond it, Baricaza, which lies on the coast. According to Jubs the Atlantic Sea begins at the promontory of Mossylon." Juba
