The Commerce and Navigation of the Erythraean Sea: Being a Translation of the Periplus Maris Erythraei by an Anonymous Writer, and of Arrian's Account of the Voyage of Nearkhos. With Introductions, Commentary, Notes, and IndexThacker, Spink, 1879 - 238 Seiten |
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Seite 153 - M'CRINDLE. — THE COMMERCE AND NAVIGATION OF THE ERYTHRAEAN SEA. Being a Translation of the Periplus Maris Erythraei, by an Anonymous Writer, and of Arrian's Account of the Voyage of Nearkhos, from the Mouth of the Indus to the Head of the Persian Gulf. With Introduction, Commentary, Notes, and Index.
Seite 111 - Little by name,— both shoal with violent andcontinuous eddies extending far out from the shore, so that before ever land is in sight ships are often grounded on the shoals, or being caught within the eddies are lost. Over this gulf hangs a promontory which, curving from E irinon first to the east, then to the south, and finally to the west, encompasses the gulf called B arake, in the bosom of which lie seven islands. Should a vessel approach the entrance of this gulf, the only chance of escape...
Seite 195 - ... traversed was not much short of 10,000 stadia. The people, as their name imports, live upon fish. Few of them, however, are fishermen, and what fish they obtain they owe mostly to the tide at whose reflux they catch them with nets made for this purpose. These nets are generally about 2 stadia long, and are composed of the bark (or fibres) of the palm, which they twine into cord in the same way as the fibres of flax are twined. When the sea recedes, hardly any fish are found among the dry sands,...
Seite 146 - Nikobar islands, and lastly the as well as the Hippioprosopoior Makroprosopoi (the horse faced or long faced men), who are reported to be cannibals. 63. After passing these the course turns again to the east, and if you sail with the ocean to your right and the coast far to your left, you reach the Ganges and the extremity of the continent towards the east called K hrnse (the Golden Khersonese).
Seite 85 - Homnae retire inwards. It was called Endaimon (' rich and prosperous'), because in bygone days, when the merchants from India did not proceed to Egypt, and those from Egypt did not venture to cross over to the marts further east, but both came only as far as this city, it formed the common centre of their commerce...
Seite 125 - South Country there are two of more particular importance — P aithana, which lies south from Barugaza, a distance of twenty days, and T agara, ten days east of Paithana, the greatest city in the country. Their commodities are carried down on wagons to Barugaza along roads of extreme difficulty, — that is, from Pai th ana a great Cambay almost in the same latitude as Cape Comorin." (51) In the interior of the Dekhan, the Periplus places two great seats of commerce, Paithana, 20 days' journey to...
Seite 196 - Gvvviav en they male oil from thunnies, ie use the fat for oil. Certain of their communities inhabit deserts where not a tree grows, and where there are not even wild fruits. Fish is their sole means of subsistence. In some few places, however, they sow with grain some patches of land, and eat the produce as a viand of luxury along with the fish which forms the staple of their diet. The better class of the population in building their houses use, instead of wood, the bones of whales stranded on the...
Seite 17 - It appears pretty certain that the culture of the indigo plant, and the preparation of the drug, have been practised in India from a very remote epoch.
Seite 119 - Bharoch, which must have got its name from a colony of of the school of Bhrigu having been early established in this Kshetra, probably granted to them by some conqueror of the district. In the name Barugaza given to it by Ptolemy we have a Greek corruption of Bhrigukshetra ( the territory of Bhrigu ) or Bhrigukaccha, ' the tongue - land
Seite 176 - The Greek admiral only availed himself of the experience of the people, for it is yet customary among the natives of Siud to dig shallow canals, and leave the tides or river to deepen them ; and a distance of five stadia, or half a mile, would call for not great labour. It is not to be supposed that sandbanks will continue unaltered for centuries, but I may observe that there was a large bank contiguous to the island, between it and which a passage like that of Nearchus might have been dug with the...