A. D. 73. 



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fmall quantity of Ivory, turtle-fhell, and myrh in very fmall quantities, 

 but of the very beft quality * 



Eaflward from Avalites there was a better emporium, though a very 

 indifferent harbour, called Malao, and inhabited by a more civilized peo- 

 ple. 



The imports to this place were 



All the articles carried to Avalites ; 

 Tunics, or jackets, in great quanti- 



ties 



Cloaks (faga) of Arfinoe, milled and 

 dyed ; 



Drinking cups or bowls ; 

 Meliephtha, an unknown article ; 

 Iron ; 



Gold and filver Roman coins ir 

 fmall quantities. 



The exports, which feem to have been to Arabia, were 



Cancamus, fuppofed 



gurn ; 

 Makeir J, fuppofed mace ; 

 Slaves, but very few. 



a kind of 



Myrh ; 



Peratic frankincenfe in fmall quan- 



ties ; 

 Cinnamon of feveral forts, and of 



inferior qualities f ; 



Farther along the coaft was Mundus, an emporium with a better har- 

 bour, the imports and exports of which were the fame with thofe of 

 Malao, with the addition to the later of thymiama mokroton §, believed 

 to be a kind of incenfe. The people of Mundus, though rude and un- 

 cultivated, were attentive to commerce. 



The next emporium to the eaftward was Mofyllon, to which were car- 

 ried 



All the articles noted as carried to Iron in fmall quantities ; 



the others ; Pretious ftones. 



Silver veffels ; 



The exports were 



Cafia, or baftard cinnamon || in [ fels were employed in the trade 

 fuch abundance, that larger vei- ] of this port ; 



* The fame primitive rude floating craft are men- 

 tioned in the fame place by Agatharchides and Stra- 

 ho See above, p. 104. Ph'ny [Z. xii, cc. 15, 

 ig] alfo notices the trade by rafts from this fhorc 

 to Okeh's (which lie calls Ocila) whence the Afri- 

 cans carried home utcnfils of glafs and brafs, and 

 clothing, together with buckles or clafps, bracelet;/^ 

 and necklaces ; trinkets, which have in all ages 

 been acceptable to nations in a favage ilate. 



|- Thefe were the produiRions of that part of the 

 country. 



X Pliny [Z. xii, c. 8] fays, macir comes from 

 India ; and he prtfcntly adds, that the nature of it 

 is unknown to him. He knows nothing of an 



Vol. I. 



African fpecies, which, however, 13 known to Di- 

 ofcorides an earlier author : and macis is meucioncd 

 by Plautus, long before either of them. 



§ .See Sahnalius in Solin. p. 500. 



II Strabo \L. xvi, p. 1 1 19] notes the growth of 

 pfeudu-cafia (baftard cafia) as \vell as cinnamon, 

 frankincenfe, and myrh, in this country. The 

 abundance of thele produftions gave the name of 

 Aromatic, with the Greeks, to the whole country, 

 and particularly to the town and promontory at the 

 eallcrn extremity of it. — Pliny \_L. vi, c. 29 j marks 

 Molyiion as the market to which cinnamon was 

 brought, which may infer, that it was imported 

 thither from India ; and fuch inference feems fup- 



ported 



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