Λώδικες οὐ πολλαὶ, ἁπλοῖ τε καὶ ἐντόπιοι—Quilts, in small quantity, some plain, others adapted to the fashion of the country. Ζῶναι σκιωταὶ—Sashes of various shades of colour. Μύρον μέτριον—Perfumes, a moderate quantity. Χρῆμα ἱκανὸν—Specie as much as is required. Οἶνος—Wine. Σῖτος οὐ πολύς—Corn, but not much. The country produces a little wheat and a great abundance of wine. Both the king and the despot above mentioned receive presents consisting of horses, pack-saddle mules, gold plate, silver plate embossed, robes of great value, and utensils of brass. +Mouza+ exports its own local products—myrrh of the finest quality that has oozed in drops from the trees, both the Gabiræan and Minœan kinds; white marble (or alabaster), in addition to commodities brought from the other side of the Gulf, all such as were enumerated at +Adouli+. The most favourable season for making a voyage to Mouza is the month of September,—that is Thôth,—but there is nothing to prevent it being made earlier. (24) Adjacent to the Homeritai, and subject to them when the _Periplûs_ was written, were the Sabæans, so famous in antiquity for their wealth, luxury and magnificence. Their country, the +Sheba+ of Scripture, was noted as the land of frankincense. Their power at one time extended far and wide, but in the days of our author they were subject to the Homerites ruled over by Kharibaêl, who was assiduous in courting the friendship of Rome. 25. If on proceeding from +Mouza+ you sail by the coast for about a distance of 300 stadia, there occurs, where the Arabian mainland and the opposite coast of +Barbaria+ at +Aualitês+ now approach each other, a channel of no great length which contracts the sea and encloses it within narrow bounds. This is 60 stadia wide, and in crossing it you come midway upon the island of +Diodôros+, to which it is owing that the passage of the straits is in its neighbourhood exposed to violent winds which blow down from the adjacent mountains. There is situate upon the shore of the straits an Arabian village subject to the same ruler (as Mouza), +Okêlis+ by name, which is not so much a mart of commerce as a place for anchorage and supplying water, and where those who are bound for the interior first land and halt to refresh themselves.