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place for embareation. If tlie wind, called Hippalus/^ hap- 
pens to be blowing, it is possible to arrive in forty days at the 
nearest mart of India, Muziris'^^ by name. This, however, is 
not a very desirable place for disembarcation, on account of the 
pirates which frequent its vicinity, where they occupy a 
place called Mtrias ; nor, in fact, is it very rich in articles 
of merchandize. Besides, the road-stead for shipping is a 
considerable distance from the shore, and the cargoes have to 
be conveyed in boats, either for loading or discharging. At 
the moment that I am writing these pages, the name of the 
king of this place is Cselobothras. Another port, and a much 
more convenient one, is that which lies in the territory of the 
people called Keacyndi, Barace by name. Here king Pandion 
used to reign, dwelling at a considerable distance from the 
mart in the interior, at a city known as Modiera. The dis- 
trict from which pepper is carried down to Barace in boats 
hoUowed out of a single tree,^^ is known as Cottonara.'''^ JS'one 
of these names of nations, ports, and cities are to be found in 
any of the former writers, from which circumstance it would 
appear that the localities have since changed their names. 
Travellers set sail from India on their return to Europe, at the 
beginning of the Egyptian month Tybis, which is our Decem- 
ber, or at all events before the sixth day of the Egyptian month 
Mechir, the same as'''^ our ides of January : if they do this, 
they can go and return in the same year. They set sail from 
India with a south-east wind, and upon entering the Red Sea, 
catch the south-west or south. We will now return to our 
main subject. 
Or Favonius, the west wind, previously meEtioned in the present 
Chapter. 
The modern Mangalore, according to Dvk Bocage. 
Or canoes. 
The Cottiara of Ptolemy, who makes it the chief city of the JSi, a tribe 
who occupied the lower part of the peninsula of Hindostan. It has been 
supposed to be represented by the modern CaUcut or Travancore. Cochin, 
however, appears to be the most likely. 
78 Marcus observes that we may conclude that either Pliny or the author 
from whom he transcribed, wrote this between the years of the Christian 
era 48 and 51 ; for that the coincidence of the 6th of the month Mechir 
with the Ides of J anuary, could not have taken place in any other year 
than those on which the first day of Thoth or the beginning of the year 
fell on the 11th of August, which happened in the years 48, 49, 50, and 51 
of the Christian era. 
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