“From the foreign term Banna,” he says, “certain Greeks in the manner of their countrymen invented +Panos+ or +Panôn+ or Panô or Panôna Kômê. Thus in Ptolemy (I. 17 and IV. 7) after Arômata follows +Panôn Kômê+, which Mannert has identified with Benna. [Khor Banneh is a salt lake, with a village, inside Râs Ali Beshgêl, lat. 11° 9´ N., long. 51° 9´ E.] Stephen of Byzantium may be compared, who speaks of +Panos+ as a village on the Red Sea which is also called +Panôn+.” The conjecture, therefore, of Letronnius that +Panôn Kômê+ derived its name from the large apes found there, called +Pânes+, falls to the ground. +Opônê+ was situated on the Southern shores of what the _Periplûs_ calls a Khersonese, which can only be the projection now called +Ras Hafûn+ or Cape D’Orfui (lat. 10° 25´ N.). Ptolemy (I. 17) gives the distance of +Opônê+ from +Panôn Kômê+ at a 6 days’ journey, from which according to the _Periplûs_ it was only 400 stadia distant. That the text of Ptolemy is here corrupt cannot be doubted, for in his tables the distance between the two places is not far from that which is given in the _Periplûs_. Probably, as Müller conjectures, he wrote ὁδόν ἡμέρας (a day’s journey) which was converted into ὁδόν ἡμερ. ϛ´ (a six-days’ journey). 14. Ships set sail from Egypt for all these ports beyond the straits about the month of July—that is, Epiphi. The same markets are also regularly supplied with the products of places far beyond them—+Ariakê+ and +Barugaza+. These products are— Σῖτος—Corn. Ὀρυζα[18]—Rice. Βούτυρον—Butter, i. e. _ghî_. Ἔλαιον σησάμινον—Oil of sesamum. Ὀθόνιον ἥ τε μοναχὴ καὶ ἡ σαγματογήνη—Fine cotton called _Monakhê_, and a coarse kind for stuffing called _Sagmatogene_. Περιζώματα—Sashes or girdles. Μέλι τὸ καλάμινον τὸ λεγόμενον σάκχαρι.—The honey of a reed, called _sugar_. Some traders undertake voyages for this commerce expressly, while others, as they sail along the coast _we are describing_, exchange their cargoes for such others as they can procure. There is no king who reigns paramount over all this region, but each separate seat of trade is ruled by an independent despot of its own. (14) At this harbour is introduced the mention of the voyage which was annually made between the coast of India and Africa in days previous to the appearance of the Greeks on the Indian Ocean, which has already been referred to.