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 and Hindu settlements on the north coast of Socotra. In fact, as pointed out by Dr. Vincent, "in the age of the Periplus, the merchants of the country round Barygaza traded to Arabia for gums and incense, to the coast of Africa for gold, and to Malabar and Ceylon for pepper and cinnamon, and thus completed the navigation of the entire Indian Ocean." The Periplus also throws some light on the shipping of the period. According to it, the inhabitants of the Coromandel coast traded in vessels of their own with those of Malabar, and at all seasons there was a number of native ships to be found in the harbour of Muziris. Three marts are mentioned on the Coromandel coast in which "are found the native vessels which make coasting voyages to Limurike—the monoxyla of the largest sort, called sangara, and others styled colandiophonta, which are vessels of great bulk and adapted to the voyages made to the Ganges and the Golden Chersonese."