APPENDIX. 7G1 



Peres — See Pires. 



Periplus Maris Erythraei, a survey of the Red Sea and tlie Indian 

 Ocean as far as the coast of Malabar. In his interesting account, written ali(nit 

 between A.D. 5-1 and 68, the author, commonly called Arrian of Ale.XiinJria, 

 gives a list of imports and exports of the various places which he liad visited 

 or of which he had good informations. See Vincent, Commerce and Naviga- 

 tion of the Ancients, etc. London, vol. i. (1800), ii. (1805); also C. Mi/l/cr, 

 Geographi grseci minores, i. (Paris, 1855) 257-305. Auonymi {Arriani ut 



fertur) Peripdus maris erythrasi. 



See pages 35. 142. 272. 493. 520. 529. 577. 599. 664. 675. 080. 715. 



Physicians of Myddvai (Meddygon Myddfai). Rhys Gryg {i.e. the 

 Hoarse), prince of South Wales (died in 1233 at Llandeilo Vawr), liad his 

 domestic physician, namely Ehiwallon, who was assisted by his three sons 

 Cadwgan, Gruflydd, Einion, from a place called Myddvai, in the present county 

 of Caermarthen. They made a collection of recipes, the original manuscript of 

 which is in the British Museum. Another collection has been compiled, from 

 the original sources, by Howel the Physician, son of Rhys, son of Llewelyn 

 son of Philip the Physician, a lineal descendant of Eimon, the son of 

 Ehiwallon. Both these compilations have been pubhshed at Llandoverj' in 

 1861, together with a translation, by John Pughe, under the above title 



^*' Se^i'pages 6. 40. 65. 71. 141. 157. 161. 170. 180. 299. 305. 310. 316. 334. 

 380. 383. 393. 401. 450. 464. 469. 476. 488. 556. G25. 635. 642. 052. 



Pires, Tom6 (or Pyres. Pirez, as he also writes his name Wmsclf), a 

 Portuguese apothecary. He' was the first ambassador sent, probably m 5 1 , 

 from Europe, or at least from Portugal, to China. Pires addressed, in 1.1-- 

 1516, several letters from Cochin and Malacca to the Admira Alfonso dAlhu- 

 qucrque and to King Manuel of Portugal. One of them, .mtten Janu..o -j'- 

 1516, from Cochin to the King, enumerates many drugs which >verc,to b met 

 with in that place-" dando 1-lhe noticias das drogas da Inda ajs the 



writer This letter still existing in the Real y Nacional Archno da iorre 

 «uier. ±ms letter stiii exisiui^ j 102), was communicated 



do Tombo (corpo chronologico, part i. tasc. u, i>o. i^W. Pnrtu.'uc'^o 



in 1838 by Bishop Condo Don Francisco de San L">^ « £ied Pharm 

 Pharmaceutical Society, and pubhshed in the.r '' J'^^jf / ^^°"th storico 

 Lusit. ii. (1838) 36." It will also be found m ^^e pamph e Eh,g m h^^^^^^^^^^ 

 e noticia ^eompieta do Thom6 Pires, l*arm— ° e p^~ - i^alUa ^^ 

 India ; e o primoiro embaixador europeo a China. Memona p 

 Gazeta de Pharmacia per Pedro Jos^^ da Silv=.' -^ Listo 18b ^^ ^^IP^ 



(«y 22 fac simile de sua signatura ")._ ^^^,.Slv written 1st December, 

 authentic copy of the letter under notice oWigingl}_«nuc ^ ^^^ 



1869, for one of us by Senhor Joaquirn Uijano ^e \ S^^^f LfSunica y los 

 Sociedad Pharmaceutica Lusitana. Accordmg to ^-^^ »«';"' ^g ^^^^ ,,as 

 Botanieos de la Peninsula Hispano-Lusitana, Madncl, ^^^°- ' ^^^^ . 



attached to the factory of Malacca as a «^7^°°nhi„'' ^ith the character 

 tener conocimientos farmaceuticos," and was sent lo ^^^^^ ^^^ ^^^^^ .^^^_ 



of an ambassador, in order to examine more ^^^^ _ U^^ 1521 in prison, 

 prisoned, says Colmeiro, at Pekin, and there^ ^e^ ^^^^^^^^ 

 Yet Ahel Ecmusat, in the 34th volume of the ^'0£^1„ ■■ ^828) 203, states 

 p. 498, and also in his " Nouveaux melanges asiatiques^ _^. j^^^ / ^^^^ ^^.^ 



that Pires proceeded first to Canton, and re^f ^'^/ ears from political 



place he was sent to Canton and imprisoned for man) } 



causes. He was still living in 1543. 



See pages 43. 255. 681. „„„thp "PampWeta, Ko. 



' LibL; of the rhanu. Soc. o£ Great Britain, Lonac, among the P 



30 ■■ (Sept. 1878). 



