Musiris. abundant at Barygaza than at Pattala. Besides those already mentioned, Arrian enumerates among the former, Italian, Greek, and Arabian wines, brass, tin, lead, girdles or sashes of curious textures, white glass, red arsenic, black lead, and gold and silver coin. Among the exports were the onyx and other gems, ivory, myrrh, various fabrics of cotton, both plain and ornamented with flowers, and pepper. At Musiris, the port Hippalus reached when he first took advantage of the monsoons, the articles imported were much the same as at Barygaza; but, as it lay nearer to the eastern parts of India, the commodities exported from it were more numerous and more valuable. Pearls are specified as being there obtainable in great abundance and of extraordinary beauty, besides a variety of silk stuffs, rich perfumes, tortoise-shell, different kinds of transparent gems, especially diamonds, and pepper of the best quality.
Cape Comorin.
Ceylon.
Although Arrian, from the accurate description he
has given of it, would seem to have sailed along
the coast as far as Cape Comorin, the southernmost
point of the Indian peninsula, the ships from Berenice
do not appear to have traded with any place on the
coast south of Musiris, where, however, various
Egyptian commodities were to be found. Probably
these articles were received in exchange for the
produce of the East, brought by native vessels from
the countries near the Ganges, or from Malacca and
China to Ceylon. Many native vessels were, however,
evidently confined, in their trading operations, exclusively
to that coast. Although the island of Ceylon
was the great mart or depôt, where the manufactures
and produce of the West were exchanged for those
