SACRED ISLEi? IX THE WEST, &C. 307 



In my essay on Egypt, I mentioned the unfor- 

 tunate affray between the son of Cussin, and some 

 of these elephants, in consequence of which he be- 

 came a Caiiuapas, or Hke a dead corpse. I cannot 

 ascertain whether the whole legend be genuine or 

 not : certain it is, tliat in Lexicons the Carenapds 

 are mentioned as belonging to the train and re- 

 tinue of Nairrit, or Palli, and of course they 

 lived either in Ethiopia or ii\ Egypt, 



The dwipa of S'ancha is supposed, by the P^m- 

 ran'ics, to join the island of Siimati^a, or of fhe 

 Aloon. This mistaken notion has been adop'-ed by 

 Ptolemy, and after him by Oriental writers. In 

 the beginning of the Brahman da-pur an a, Lancd, 

 or the peninsula of Malaya^ and Sumatra join the 

 island of S'ancha, or Zengh. Samdsthitam, adhering 

 to, is a participial form, answering to con-stitum in 

 Latin, and sun-istamai in Grtek. This is under- 

 stood of the island o^ Mandara, or Sumatra ; for it 

 is positively declared, that Maha Lanca, or Ma- 

 lacd, and Sumatra, are separated by a strait called 

 Lanca-dwara, or the gates of Lanca. Ptolemy, 

 how ever, supposed it was the peninsula of Malacd 

 that was thus joined to Africa ; and, for this pur- 

 pose, makes the shores take a most circuitous turn. 

 El Edriss[ asserts equally, that the isle of Malai 

 joins, toward the West, to the country of Zengh. 

 The inland, or Mediterranean sea, is called Yamo- 

 dadh'e, or the sea of Yama ; and by Ptolemy Hip- 

 pados, perhaps from the Sanscrit Updhdlii, which 

 would imply a subordinate or inferior sea. This 

 expression would be perfectly grammatical, but I 

 do not recollect that it is ever used. Hippados may 

 also be derived simply from Abd'hi, pronounced 

 Jpd'hi, or the sea. The tract of islands called 

 Raneh by Arabian writers, and including Mada- 

 gascar and the surrounding islands, is obvipusly 



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