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Ceylon.

PaL*SIMUNDU, FORMERLY CALLED

Taprobane.

( Exports )

Pearls

Transparent stones

Muslins

Tortoise-shell.

India (East Coast, farther north)

Masalia.

( Exports)

Muslins, in great quantity. Dosarene.

( Exports )

Ivory.

India (Ganges delta).

Ganges.

( Exports )

Malabathrum Gangetic spikenard Pearls

Muslins of the finest sort, called Gangetic.

(The place has a gold coin called caltis).

Malacca.

Chryse Island.

( Exports )

Tortoise-shell, the best of all.

China.

Thin.*.

(Difficult of access; few men come from there, and seldom) ( Exports, overland through Bac- tria to Barygaza, also by way of the Ganges to Da- rn irica)

Raw silk Silk yam Silk cloth.

Himalaya mountains.

The Besat*.

( Exports )

Malabathrum ; in three forms, the large -ball, the medium- ball, and the small-ball.